Some of the other recent DXpeditions were using 22 kHz up from the bottom as their frequency. It seemed to work out well for most people. I'm sure there were a few complaints from people who normally
I met Tom and spent some time talking to him in the SMC suite. This is very sad news. I hope he recovers, and soon. 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing li
An anecdote - In my first really semi-serious effort as a little pistol in ARRL DX CW (n 1993) I had been inactive in ham radio for quite a number of years and honestly hadn't encountered cut numbers
Are you saying that someone can get hold of another station's log after it has been submitted and tamper with it? If that's the case, then the security needs to be placed on the computer where the lo
It seems to me that a totally fabricated log would stand out when log checking is done. If I were the contest sponsor, I'd get suspicious if the log checking results showed 99% errors in QSO's. And t
To (slightly mis-)quote the photographer Fred Picker, "They're good enough for the people who use them." I played around with the Morse copying feature of my PK232DSP just for fun a couple times. I w
I have, in the past, requested a card sent directly to a DX station and received a blank card as well as confirmation for the QSO(s) I made. This is almost an invitation from the DX to write my own c
For ARRL contests (and others) I always receive a confirmation e-mail of some sort that I submitted a log. If someone wanted to send in a log to replace my actual submission, it seems they would want
See part 97.105 in the FCC rules: (a) The control operator must ensure the immediate proper operation of the station, regardless of the type of control. (b) A station may only be operated in the mann
You would need at least two separate antennas and the ability to measure the phase angle between the signals received by the two antennas. When I was in grad school in college in radio science, we us
Another non-volatile post! I had a blast on Field Day this year operating at K9CU in a park just north of Urbana, IL. I know it isn't officially a contest, but I worked an awful lot of calls I recogn
Those are good points, Dick. If I held a General class license and operated a contest using my own callsign, whether I was at my home, someone else's station, mobile, or at a portable station out in
I guess you can take two routes - you can constantly work on improving your station and your skills to get better and better and eventually score highly honestly, or you can cheat. I have been enteri
Has anyone heard anything from Don Miller lately? I remember when he got out of prison several years ago and got a ham license again, with the call AE6IY, I expected to hear him on the air again. I e
I heard some very short duration signals from W1 direction on 6m on Saturday midday. Heard a W1 callsign for about 15 seconds and another station sending "FN42" on 6m CW. They weren't in there long e
I can see what you mean. The 3830 scores for the CQWW VHF contest have a score listed under the "HILLTOPPER LOW" category and the op lists his operating time as 10 hours. The Hilltopper category is a
I noticed in a small pile-up on a CW station in a contest recently that the station had a large number of stations calling him zero-beat and a small number of stations calling down about 200 Hz. He w
My sister is a math teacher at the University of Wisconsin. They administer final exams by class number, not necessarily by specific instructor, i.e. they have various time slots available for one pa
Not to bring the debate here, but my question about "true north" is "How accurate do you need to be?" A 2 foot diameter dish at 10 GHz has a lot narrower beamwidth than anything on HF, and my trusty
I'm at the K9CT contest station. We are doing a Multi/2 with four But I have encountered those stations that are not sending their calls. I 73, Zack W9SZ _____________________________________________