I have had multiple PLL failures on both of my 940s. Best I can tell they're the result of bad solder connections but until I get around to retouching *all* the joints on the RF board probably won't
This Sunday, local time in the USA. 1800-0100z, all HF bands plus VHF. Out-of-state exchange RS(T) and state/province/country; Tennessee exchange RS(T) and county. Rules on http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/tq
And Morse is more obscure than Perl? $city =~ s/(\w+)/\u\L$1/g; Seriously, a certain part of the hacker (in the good sense) community seems to enjoy obfuscated programming. Surely fluency in Morse w
I too found this frustrating. I thought it important to, when preparing to call a station finishing a QSO, wait for the guy he was working to QSL his exchange. But at least 35-40% of the time, you d
We (the Tennessee Contest Group) have also been pushing this. It will benefit us considerably. The geographic center of the state is Murfreesboro. (which also happens to be home to a fair bit of con
I hate it when I misspeak. Maybe can be blamed on lack of sleep due to ARRL DX? *My QTH* is equidistant from Memphis & Knoxville. The TCG club center in Murfreesboro isn't - the map and Jay's commetn
He probably would have had to have pre-printed notices to cover everyone caught transmitting above 14.347. Heck, I would have needed them to cover everyone *I* heard up there while S&Ping around the
That does bring up one DX station I ran into on 40m - wish I could remember the call - "150, 150, DX1DX Contest listening 150". To the credit of us USA types, in the 2 minutes or so I spent listening
Am I blind, or naive? I've been contesting for over 25 years, have operated from or at least visited several of the best-known & most successful stations. (K4VX, K3LR, N4ZZ, W0AIH, K4JNY (usually use
Well, that was interesting. Got six responses in private email, only one went to the reflector. (actually it was a copy of one of the six sent privately) One other op had also never seen an excessive
Does that help the smaller station who *can't* call CQ because he can't find an open frequency among the big boys? Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville) TN EM66 -- The world's top contesters batt
Indeed, I've had some success in running while QRP in SS. (I've tried it in ARRL DX but with very little success. Not because of any problems with the big guns, it just didn't seem to generate enough
I'm taking requests for the TCG NAQP SSB teams. We seem to have three full teams already but the more, the merrier! (besides, it sounds like the weather is going to stink this weekend across a lot of
TCG still has slots open on NAQP teams. I'll be submitting early Saturday morning. (before the Gallatin hamfest, assuming there *is* a hamfest given the bad weather!) Drop me a line... -- Doug Smith
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:45:45PM -0500, cq-contest-request@contesting.com wrote: It's not as hard as one might think, at least for low-power operation. I've got a 132' Windom run between the tower
We do already recognize separate categories for those who choose not to take certain steps to upgrade their stations. Operators choose not to use their amplifier, and are recognized for winning the
*Sometimes*, the CQing operator can blame himself for this. One comes to expect a certain "rhythm" to a contest CQ - "CQ TEST W9WI W9WI", something similar. If your CQ is unusually long or has somet
It won't be an easy line to draw: "As my probability professor put it the other night, there are an infinite number of numbers between true and false." Let me suggest a standard for discussion: "Sin
determining the I guess I fail to see the difference between learning a needed mult's whereabouts via packet radio on 446.2MHz and learning it via CW on 3540KHz. Either way, someone other than the o
Interesting incident during the ARRL Phone on 15m early this morning. Decided it was time to do some CQing. Found a completely open frequency. (nothing but band noise) Asked whether it was in use. Re