Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 11:53:26 +0000
Since the topic of Band Edge has come up. I am interested in what people think the band edge is on SSB. I believe the FCC provides some guidance in Part 97. They define the width of an SSB signal I b
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:38:05 +0000
Personally - I don't think the Assisted vs Unassisted matters much in WPX. If you aren't running, you are losing, in that contest. It might help a small amount grabbing some unusual prefixes, but its
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 00:51:56 +0000
It would be admittedly hard to prove an extra few hundred watts probably, but went I jumped to high power from low power, the first contest I did that on, a number of people wondered whether I had ch
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 11:47:29 +0000
I think what happens is someone volunteers for the WPX Director job. Realizes that 80% of the work deals with accusing, verifying, communicating, getting screamed at centered around cheating for spot
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 18:35:17 +0000
Jim, I feel the same way about NAQP and SS from W1. Luckily, there are lots of contests to choose from. Enjoy the ones you like. Skip the ones you don't. No reason to bash what others like just becau
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 18:23:15 +0000
If you cant work the EU mult on 80M or run EU on the band, it doesnt matter what the scoring is. 0 x infinity still equals 0. Its kind of like NAQP from W1. If I cant hear W2/W3 on 15M, they could be
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 17:15:18 +0000
I agree with much of Jeff's comments below. However, in this particular year, I won the High Power US AB Category and operated unassisted. I never operate assisted. Don't like it and won't start just
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:08:11 +0000
I continue to see postings of scores by a ham outside the US operating a US based remote site. The hams do not have their own US callsign and "borrow" someone else's callsign from the US. I am pretty
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 12:09:26 +0000
Actually I dont believe you are correct. When you are in person in the country, you are governed by the reciprocal licensing of the 2 countries for people visiting. There is nothing in that normal la
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 19:44:44 +0000
Actually, according to the ARRL web site. "For foreign nationals not holding a U.S. FCC-issued license, remote control of a U.S. station is not authorized under any treaty or reciprocal authorization
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:43:40 +0000
KO7SS wrote: "It would be easier to opine on this situation that is bothering you if you were to post up the callsigns in question, in public, on this reflector. There may be aspects of the details y
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 21:03:58 +0000
Sorry, He would need to use KO1A as his call in order to be compliant. But he did not. Why would he not use KO1A as required? Ed N1UR That one was easy. Look up the callsign on qrz.com<http://qrz.com
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 22:51:24 +0000
I have an idea maybe because the callsign was only issued last month? Yep that would be it. Ed N1UR Sorry, He would need to use KO1A as his call in order to be compliant. But he did not. Why would he
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 12:12:45 +0000
Interesting Ron. So I guess the question is expanded from the original to what the requirement is for someone to use their own call in a contest generically. If the "control operator" with the call i
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 12:20:36 +0000
In this particular example it's a single op entry. Ed N1UR --Original Message-- From: Peter Voelpel <dj7ww@t-online.de> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2021 3:33 AM To: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-convers
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:31:42 +0000
I almost never enter NAQP officially because I don't typically have the time when it comes around to get serious. Yet Vermont is a desired mult. So I typically fire up the amp and just run for an hou
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 21:17:07 +0000
Hi Pete. No offense but CWT is not a major contest. And if many more people are CQing than S & Ping then your point & click rate are of course going to be high. Try doing that in CQWW with an HOA dip
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 21:08:19 +0000
Hi Ken. My point was referring to an HOA limited contester that thought assisted was helping him. I dispute that. Assisted is dumping him into all of the places where all the point and clickers are g
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:04:38 +0000
Too bad they changed it. It would have brought some badly needed CW and SSB activity to the WARC bands. It was hardly a contest in the normal contest sense. Bouvet will bring A LOT more noise onto th
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 23:14:43 +0000
I was not asked nor ever agreed to said pact When exactly did each of us do that actually? If I am being held to my word l would like to know when I at least gave it Ed. N1UR Get Outlook for Android<