is the 11th, I guess that's this coming Thursday. Looks like a record turnout; if your log isn't already in, please join the crowd! _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
OK, so I finally got enough laundry done to sit down & try CQing for a few minutes in the CQ WW SSB. Running 500 watts to a 7-el tribander at 20m, I'm not the loudest signal on the band but I'm not a
I'd done just that - sent essentially the same message (worded slightly differently) to the address listed for the station on QRZ.com. It seems to be a club station with no one specific "owner". It d
We tried this with Logitech wireless keyboards/mice at work a few years ago. DON'T TRY IT, YOU'LL REGRET IT!!! Each keyboard/mouse handshakes with a base station (the unit connected to a PC) when the
Just in case you thought 10 meters would be pointless at the bottom of the sunspot cycle... I've got the day off from work. Got the rig squelched up on 29.62MHz. I am hearing the W1OJ repeater near B
Haven't worked much DX but the band was open to Texas well into the night - and again for about two hours this morning. (it was a lot better during CQ WW CW) Agreed. It would be interesting to see a
I'm with Gary on this. The joy of the 10M Contest is that it isn't *a* contest -- it's *two* contests. You don't really know which one you're going to get until it starts! This year, it was indeed a
Seems to me a virtual machine is probably overkill in the hamshack? The PC in my shack "triple-boots". I have Windows XP, Windows 98 (configured to boot to a command prompt as "DOS 7"), and Red Hat L
We don't want to publish the raw logs because someone might find a call similar to theirs in the log & use it to claim a QSL for a QSO they didn't make. We want to publish the raw logs because it mig
The other stations who worked FO/JA8BMK around 2230z Saturday around 21073kHz, I wonder what you all logged for his power? (it would probably be a bad idea to give a specific answer until after the l
http://www.xkeys.com/xkeys.php We've been using a few of these at work lately. You plug them into a USB port, install the software, and you can program each key to type a certain set of keys. Among o
... Agreed. But is it possible Hans' concerns go back to a possible ARRL policy against DXCC credit for QSOs with stations that post complete log data online? (discussed on this list last Dec. 13th,
K5ZD: you calls and frequencies (and did not come from your own knob twisting and ears) is assisting you in your operation and providing an advantage. Should it make a difference whether it's Skimmer
I would suggest that for an experienced CW operator, working CW mobile in motion is *safer* than working phone. The Morse key can safely sit on the passenger seat, where it doesn't obstruct your visi
Speaking for the Tennessee QSO Party, we begin working the day after the deadline. Final results have to wait for a couple of things. First, you have to have all the paper logs in - you have to wait
I don't see what's such a big deal. The cat got out of the bag long ago. When I got into contesting back in the 1970s, you had to know the prefix tables and the WAZ map. If you worked EA8M2 and logge
(Interstate 65...) Have you ever been contesting & found W9WI and WI9WI CQing on nearby frequencies? Or while running, had Jim and then me (or vice-versa) answer your CQs in rapid succession? Well, h
VE3DZ. (or was it VE3NE? Sorry guys, I keep getting you confused! The other guy got 47 which is da*ned good too!) Thanks much to KCDXC for the contest (a blast as always!, sorry 'bout the handwriting
I think Tree is being rather optimistic, with regards to the humans. Maybe 2 or 3? It *would* be an interesting test. I suppose the test depends on what we're testing for. What happened yesterday at
A number of people (probably most vocally myself) have been complaining of sore feet after walking the Dayton flea market. Wishing to quantify this, I made a rough estimate of the distance one must w