Hi Rich, Thank you for your well considered comments. The legal expression is "res ipsa loquitur" which means "the thing speaks for itself." In my book, winning is winning if you play by the rules. Y
During a 15 m USA run late in the contest, I noted a number of stations duped me where I had the original contact around the same time. It appears as if I was logging stations who were actually worki
I agree 100% that asking a station to move to another band after they answer a CQ is a 2nd solicitation and against the rules. I got into this exact discussion via email with an operator who told me
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Dan, The question really is, what do you do to maximize mults? Estimate how many QSOs you expect to make and how many mults you expect = to make. Figure
Anyone have any experience using the MFJ-959B in conjunction with a pennant antenna? Ken, K6LA -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUE
I just spent an hour on the phone with American Airlines trying to find a person who could get me a letter waiving excess baggage fees for radio equipment to be used in a "simulated emergency test."
Let's take a look at what the WRTC-2002 Committee has said about U. S. team selection, pasted below: Ignore section iii) about wildcards. United States of America ** max. 12 teams 10 teams are select
Hello Ken! After reading masses of emails about this issues I don't know what to think, is it: a) our English is very bad (well, W6OAT read the criteria before we published it) or b) are US clubs thi
Rick, N6XI, pointed out that the club selection deadline is June 15, 2001 - NOT June 30 as I put in my previous post. 73, Ken, K6LA, Ken Six Los Angeles K6LA@gtemail.net -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://
For the Tribander/Single Wire WPX category, can the operator use single wires for the 2nd radio on 10, 15, 20 meters? I see the rules specifically state only ONE tribander may be used on 10,15, 20 me
I finally got around to listening to my tapes vs. the error report from CQP. Of the 40 errors on the report (out of 2401 QSOs,) only 4 should not have been flagged as errors as far as I am concerned
I'm trying to play with VPED and wondering if anyone has some voice files they can send me. 73, Ken, K6LA, Ken Six Los Angeles K6LA@GTEMAIL.NET -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-con
"It's interesting that the two-radio guys are the most vociferous about having only one category. Sort of like the Indy cars wanting to race against everybody. W7TI" AND - it's interesting one radio
I've been practicing for WRTC with a phone pile-up tape that my teammate, Randy, K5ZD had. Today, the first day my kids were out of school, they wanted me to play ping pong with them, which I'm usual
The rules say operating and logging, so there is nothing wrong with another person fixing equipment. If and when the rules are changed to operating, logging and maintaining the station, then it would
I had the same experience at VY1DX and asked for a fill on "LOH" three times. I logged the name as "L" and the QTH as "OH." 73, Ken, K6LA (Ken Six Los Angeles) K6LA@GTEMAIL.NET -- CQ-Contest on WWW:
I was surprised to see the CAC had made a recommendation regarding new SS rules. I was surprised because you would think there would have been a post to CQ-CONTEST that it was being considered so tha
I've listened to my tapes vs. my CQWW CW error report and can say overall the log checking is VERY GOOD! I had about 33 good hours of tape. I evidently didn't hit the record button and lost 6 importa
I had the same experience at VY1DX and asked for a fill on "LOH" three times. I logged the name as "L" and the QTH as "OH." 73, Ken, K6LA (Ken Six Los Angeles) K6LA@GTEMAIL.NET -- CQ-Contest on WWW:
I was surprised to see the CAC had made a recommendation regarding new SS rules. I was surprised because you would think there would have been a post to CQ-CONTEST that it was being considered so tha