If it points you to a QRG outside your current audible passband which contains a new callsign or a new multiplier, it is assistance. 73, de Hans, K0HB -- "Just a boy and his radio" -- The heart of th
I consider "assistance" to be real time information about Freqs/Calls/Mults which I didn't personally develop in the course of operating. None of those aids provide you with any information, and do n
The VA considers me practically deaf -- up to 90db loss (do the math) in each ear. Phone contesting is extremely difficult (you should see my UBN reports for phone weekends), but Morse is far easier
It's their country. It's their laws. Deal with it. Talk about "ugly Americans"!!! de Hans, K0HB/K7 We in the USA (at least in business and the government) now want to allow Mexicans to operate big se
I think that it's a normal and accepted practice with no negative baggage. 73, de Hans, K0HB/K7 Hi group, I'm a member of the PA6Z contest group and we're about to take up a technique that we haven't
If >Amateur< radiosport requires this level of micromanagement, then it is no longer "amateur" but some twisted Dali-esque parody of the hobby. 73, de Hans, K0HB/K7 "Just a Boy and His Radio" I wonde
I don't think there's anything even closely similar between those two examples. Every time that we go on the air we deliberately and specifically identify ourselves, and when we send a general CQ or
I've always treated contesting as gaming. If fact, when explaining contesting to non-hams I've often described CQWW as "a worldwide game of electronic splatball over radio". That seems to resonate wi
Somewhat overstated perhaps, but accurate. 73, de Hans, K0HB/K7 "Just a boy and his radio" _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://li
You can be suspicious about pretty much any North Korean spotted. They're not a very active crowd. 73, de Hans, K0HB/K7 "Just a boy and his radio" Dumb newbie question - testing out DX Summit during
Paul, As long as all his transmitters, receivers, and antenna are inside the 500-meter circle, why do we care how long his mike cord is? Remote control is perfectly legal, at least under FCC jurisdic
If two equivalently equipped stations exist "side-by-side" (just far enough apart to avoid mutual interference), one controlled remotely and the other conventionally controlled, explain the competiti
I don't "miss" your point, Paul. I simply do not accept it as valid. A strict implementation of your requirement to be "independent of all other communications modes and communications technologies"
I have a non-amateur 802.11(n) wireless network in my home. Is it permissible for me to run a RTTY contest from a laptop in my favorite recliner while watching a football game over this network? 73,
Actually I'm 'shrinking' the point, not stretching it. If a 'non-amateur' communications link is 'cheating' then the length of that link is immaterial, isn't it? Paul, in a direct email, makes an app
Lets pick one summer weekend in 2012, when no DXpedition is planned and no significant international contest is scheduled. Maybe the second weekend of August. On that weekend, lets turn off all the D
Bob, Im an old man. A gentle old man. The notion of of a quiet weekend turning the big knob to sort through all that noise and hissing on HF are the reasons I love ham radio. Reasons like John, 9M2GV
Mike, K9NW, points out that there IS a contest on the 2nd weekend of August, and gives a very good alternative plan. I nominate the weekend of June 30/July 1, 2012. 73, de Hans, K0HB/K7 I think the W
I believe (as in "it is my opinion") that the 500m rule is to disallow multiple receive/transmit sites all under a single call sign, a "distributed multi-multi" so to speak. 73, de Hans, K0HB/K7 ____
Must you sleep with 500m of your transmitter? I'll probably draw some flak for this posting from the purists, but here goes. If one is participating in a 48 hour contest, and wants to take a 4 hour s