Author: Bob Kupps via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:38:53 -0700
Hi Charly I would be very interested in how these observations were made. I am not a smart doctoral candidate but as 'other people' my theory for this observation is the large increase in propagated
Author: Bob Kupps via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:39:05 -0700
Hi we enjoy a relatively high level of propagated QRN here right up through 30 mHz. We have some good transmitting antennas that certainly help but even using stacks we get some very deep mid-angle n
Author: Ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 08:25:15 -0400 (EDT)
Wow, that's getting way back there. I had entries in 1962 and 1963. Maybe those will show up some day soon. The contest was very much smaller and way less intense back then. I have a little twelve pa
Author: K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:31:24 -0400
1. Does having an "8" in my callsign qualify me as having a piece of eight? 2. My wife looked over my shoulder and asked if this was a real contest. Or was I reading The Onion? 3. What sort of (pi)RA
Author: K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:53:16 -0400
If I make 3.14 QSOs per hour, does that make me a Pi Rate operator? 73 - Jim K8MR In a message dated 9/11/2014 4:37:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, wolfsan@baymoon.com writes: Jim, 1. Perhaps, but pie
Author: K4XS via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:16:45 -0400
I agree that activity has hit an all time low. I've been doing Sprint since the 80s and unless you got over 300 Qs you lost and might not even make top 5. In the Sprint last Saturday I had a malfunct
Author: K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 09:15:13 -0400
Something I would suggest considering: Rather that place the SSB Sprint on a fixed calendar date (second Saturdays of February and September), run it on weekends that by virtue of calendar oddities d
Author: Alan Dewey via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:09:59 -0400
I agree with the comment made earlier on this list (by N5DO I believe) that antennas make a much bigger difference than 50 watts of power. I've never been that bothered by the 150W rule for ARRL cont
Author: George via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:57:56 -0400
Hello Ed, VE4EAR, I have done many foreign operations over the years, and never encountered a problem, but "the times are a changin'." Please contact me off net and let me know where you plan to go.
Author: George via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:02:06 -0400
Randy, Outstanding work by N2NC and his team for recording the CQWW scores for 1967-1968. It is wonderful to see our old scores from ET3USA !!! ET3USA has not existed since about 1974, but the memori
Author: K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 08:20:57 -0400
Seven years ago we were at or approaching the solar minimum. I remember being at PJ2T for CQWW CW in 2007 and 2008 - on 10 meters we had something 150 and 35 QSOs, respectively. I hope interest holds
Author: K4XS via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 22:11:24 -0400
Very few signals sound dirty on either of my K3s. However, there are a couple that sound dirty and are from well known contesters. Looking at the signals on the P-3 is pretty enlightening and general
Author: Stan via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:36:35 +0100
These are my feelings exactly. Well said Igor. Stan EI6DX, ex OWZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailma
Author: Stan via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:27:09 +0000 (UTC)
It takes courage to change decisions like that.Bravo CQ! No politics in our hobby!I will be looking to receive each CQ issue in the future knowing that true ham radio spirit is behind it.Thank you.St
Author: Ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 22:12:52 -0400
My thanks to N2NC and his cohorts. Now I can look back at my first faltering efforts in contesting as K9LIO in the early 60s. A real blast from the past. John, I don't have your email address, so I h
Author: Ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:05:07 -0400
Those aren't "big pistols", they're Gatling guns. Stand back. 73, Ken, AB1J In a message dated 2014-10-24 2:18:13 P.M. Coordinated Universal Tim, hs0zcw@gmail.com writes: More and more as I reawaken
Author: alannottage--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:09:52 -0400
It has seemed like the QRZ Contest in recent years. This year it seemed to be the 73 Contest. Surely 'thanks' is sufficient, given the length of the Q and the fact you haven't exchanged names? Or may
Author: Bob Kupps via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:41:32 -0700
Heh I too was a bit amazed at seeing the picture of K8AZ in a CQ WW write up with a run station, a multiplier hunting station and two more spotting stations. My hat is off to them though - most radio
Author: jpescatore--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 06:02:36 -0500
Eric VY1EI had reached out and the original plan was that I would remotely operate VY1EI and help Eric bring the NT mult to the masses. However, the Internet connection at Eric's remote station was d
Author: K4XS via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 14:38:18 -0500
75-76..huge influx of Cbers from the CB craze of the mid 70s. 60s....all of the teen baby boomers that would have been computer geeks of today, became ham radio geeks. Today's ops are like many of us