This is strictly my opinion, and my first-ever post to this group. Well said, Scott. I often participate in events for my own reasons, and they sometimes have little to do with the rules or purported
There's a monument to Cabrillo I once visited on Point Loma in San Diego as well... It's been mentioned in QST (years ago when the log format came about) how to correctly pronounce it. -- Geoffrey Wa
First, I'd like to thank everyone for some very informative and educational dialogue on here, I don't post frequently to the group. Here are my questions: During SS I was calling CQ SS without qualif
Whining about aspects of how a NEW contest is run would seem to me like whining, "aw, that moonbounce contest stinks; you need to have a VHF amplifier, AND a gain antenna, AND know where to point it,
I recently had trouble using an IRC at a local branch Post Office when posting a QSL reply to a DX station I'd worked in a contest. They told me that they "couldn't process" my IRC. So I took the tra
N1MM allows the use of control characters to adjust speed on the fly within the macro: < = faster by 2wpm thus, <<<<KA1IOR>>>> in the middle of the macro jumps the speed up by 8wpm. No more problem.
In one of the jobs that I do, there is a lot of talk about WHAT we do, and that it is very different from HOW we accomplish it. WHAT vs. HOW This seems relevant to the problems we are facing with amb
Suggesting DC be separated from MD should only be based on the criteria for creating a new ARRL Section: number of licensees within a geographic area. If NN3W can offer supporting numbers to back thi
Can anyone point me to results or records for the fastest sweep in November Sweepstakes? -- "Style is a simple way of saying complicated things." --J. Cocteau \ / --\--/-- / == \ | | --Tao. A chinese
SDR's aren't a bad thing, we should just take care about how we make them available via the internet... How would it work if users were advised that what they are hearing is intentionally delayed by
Put another way, the person who made the error is actually admitting they made a mistake. It would be counterproductive to admonish that in and of itself. The mistake may have been purely inadvertent
Paul, I've been away from the reflector for over a week, due to the death of a close friend and business partner. So I'm sorry if this reply to your topic comes late in the discussion. I respect your
"Interesting, Ken.... Just to clarify a bit further, I'm going to assume this means that you CAN operate from a different country than the physical station..." This is not quite correct, because oper
Yannick XV4Y is getting to the nub of this topic. Maybe we need a grid/cross reference of the ID requirements based on either completing a contact, or based on time interval, of ALL of the relevant g
This response is about the problem of lack of ID in a contest, not about a particular person. I listen for 2 or 3 Q's for an ID, and then work them even if they haven't yet. If a running station isn'
I would put things in this context: A running station "occupies" the frequency, and "holds" on to its use until one of two things occurs-- They "default" from it by failing to safeuguard against its
"2) Keep a traditional single operator category." Jeff, These are strictly "devil's advocate" questions I'm posing: "etc." is a pretty wide net. Should one be forced into unlimited if it includes any
"How do we make it interesting for these "little" guns?" I have made this suggestion on an individual level to at least one organizer, but I'm going public with it now: I propose contest organizers c
Hans wrote: "What's not to like about this idea?" What's not to like about it is, WRTC will officially DISALLOW using any and ALL of your scores with respect to WRTC's ranking/scorekeeping for that e
In my case, it's not more than a few tenths of a second after hearing "TU" that I've spun the dial to the next signal, so #3 for me. If I am running, odds are very low that I'd QSY if I'm SO. I belie