Thanks to all who replied to my question about LCD monitors working with an old DOS computer. I now have a shiny new HP monitor hooked up and running RiTTY by K6STI and it works great. It's a little
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Speaking as one who is not the greatest CW copier, the easy ones for me are either short such as AE, or which repeat such as AA. Avoid the letter B - in QRM/QRN
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I normally avoid "me too" posts, but I wanted to chime in on this one. Having had a Pro3 for about a year now, I would not want to be without the spectrum displa
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I've always felt the easiest US prefix to copy is K, but the double A isn't far behind. Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mai
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Sun, 27 May 2007 10:14:46 -0700 (PDT), Ev Tupis <w2ev@yahoo.com> wrote: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Think carefully about what contests you are going to operate with your setup. A vertic
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Perhaps I'm missing something. My question is, why use it? Why would you want to know other scores while the contest is still on? The only score that's important
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Yes, it sure does. My club has always entered the etc. class and the circles have hammered us every time. Down with circles! Up with etc, etc, etc! Bill W6WRT __
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: <snip> -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Everything you said is well known and agreed to by most knowledgeable antenna guys. What myth and magic are you separating out? Bill W6WRT _______________
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Why? Well, since you asked, a lot of us think that spotting networks are a plague on contesting. A lot of us still like to use that big knob in the middle of the
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- What we need coming into the hobby is people interested in radio. Ham radio is about generating, transmitting and receiving RF energy. A computer is a wonderful
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I know that. Your statement was about pre-1980s technology and that was what I replied to. Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Isn't the whole idea of a geographic area to include people who actually come to the club meetings on a regular basis and to exclude "ringers" who are club membe
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Actually, "gerrymandering", named after a former governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, who is remembered for little else, but whose namesake remains popular
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Tue, 29 May 2007 19:18:37 -0400, "Paul Mackanos" <mackanos@rpa.net> wrote: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- If you don't get an answer, try the TowerTalk reflector. Those guys know that stuff
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 02:56:53 -0700 (PDT), Ev Tupis <w2ev@yahoo.com> wrote: <snip> -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Perhaps your second paragraph explains the reasoning behind your first paragraph
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:10:20 -0700 (PDT), John Geiger <n5ten@yahoo.com> wrote: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- According to your RST system, all signals would be 599, and that's what I said I li
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- IMO, modeling software is only useful when all parameters are known. That is not the case for so-called one way skip. Your software focuses on the signal to nois
So if one banana provides a 90-minute energy boost, a 48 hour contest would require 32 bananas. I love bananas, but I don't know.... :-) Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ CQ-
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Go ahead and do it anyway, picking your favorite state, and in the comment area at the bottom, fess up. Maybe they will add provinces or even "other". I'm sure t