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
Doug, 3. He was BS'ing you and trying to take the freq. Do you KNOW he was SO2R? 73, dale, kg5u -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQ
4. He just blipped his frequency (manually or with his logging program) and didn't know he had moved on top of you. I've done that (blush). Reason I figured it out was because TR's band map keeps the
Interesting issue that is getting more and more relevant with SO2R and the competitive pressure for multipliers. I lost my run frequencies several times on the ARRL CW weekend when I moved off to mov
Just wait a few years, when we don't have the wide-open spaces of 10 and 15 to work with. 73, Pete N4ZR Contesting is! The World Contest Station Database is waiting for your input at http://www.qsl.n
Doug, Perhaps, given your years of experience, or perhaps as a result where you are, the amount of interference on that frequency seemed normal to you and you felt that you had a "clear-enough" frequ
This even happens to W2s. <g> I had this done "to me" by a certain K1 powerhouse. I had already worked a couple of guys and had a small run going when he came back and told me "that's the way it work
This is something I learned to deal with from my first days of contesting. I don't know if this is something others have observed, but in ARRL DX CW contests anyway, most of the U.S. big guns seem to
Bob comments: Same thing here, about the same time, maybe same incident??? A W6 said I was on their freq. I said it was clear and they said they were up one kHz. I asked him if we were now suppose to
Hello Mike In the ARRL 10 meter contest in 98, when I was still a Tech+, I had great conditions from Texas to both EU and JA. I was running 100 watts and a vertical and running both ways. I had a EU
f25M6uW12662 Sender: owner-cq-contest@contesting.com Precedence: bulk X-List-Info: http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/cq-contest X-Sponsor: W4AN, KM3T, N5KO & AD1C It happened that I just moved on YOUR ru
Again the obvious, if someone pulls a stunt like this, then publish his entire call. If not, leave out any reference, lest we condemn all K1 powerhouses. 73 Ed -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.cont
Mine was on 15 also, found a freq. up about 3 kc from a carribeanne station down about 3 from a W3. My radios filters allowed me a satisfactory window to call CQ in. I was going to be "fresh" for ma