" A co uple of years ago, someone put an idiotic rule into FD which says no "octopus" can be used at FD " A little fact checking is in order... That rule has been in place for at least forty five yea
The then new 1970 Field Day rule eliminated the use of electrical or mechanical devices that allowed multiple fully equipped and fully manned stations to operate in a smaller transmitter category by
Until mid-2014 Solar Cycle 24 was remarkably quiet. Despite the steadily declining solar flux since mid-2014, the Suns large-scale magnetic field suddenly strengthened late in 2014 reaching its highe
Oops, I forgot to sign my prior email... 73 Frank W3LPL -- Original Message -- Until mid-2014 Solar Cycle 24 was remarkably quiet. Despite the steadily declining solar flux since mid-2014, the Suns l
Hi Mike, That "growly" signals you're hearing are harmonics of your transmitted signal generated by unintentional radiators, especially switching power supplies. This type of RFI -- sometimes called
The correct URL is: http://www.arrl.org/ares-el?issue=2015-10-22 73 Frank W3LPL -- Original Message -- Ward/N0AX wrote a nice article about contesting for ARES operators and others. Check out this we
Has anyone else tried the Antlion ModMic 4.0 uni-directional (noise cancelling) microphone? If so, please post your review. http://www.amazon.com/Antlion-Audio-ModMic-Attachable-Microphone/dp/B00R98J
Hi Peter, While 7 a.m. in Europe may be a good time to sleep, it doesn't follow that there is no propagation from Europe to USA after 7 a.m. 40 meters usually remains open for at least a few hours af
Hi Ed, The efficiency of a horizontally polarized antenna over salt water or a salt marsh improves by one dB or less compared to the same antenna over fertile farm soil in a flat (or nearly flat) Fre
Hi Ed, The first ionospheric reflection point for propagation from K3LR and W3LPL to Europe is over Eastern Canada. For high angles its located near the U.S border, for low angles it near Labrador an
An unexpected side effect of CW Skimmers in CW DX contests is that many operators no longer spot DX stations in any DX contest. Good sportsmanship suggests that if you use DX spots this weekend you s
If a major contest dared to restrict running it would no longer be a major contest. Does anyone wish for a return to the ARRL CW DX Competition quotas of 1966 and before? That definitely restricted r
That typographical error originated in the 2002 CQWW CW line scores published in CQ magazine, it then propagated into the CQWW records. That error is so obvious that it was easy to diagnose, h ow man
Hi Eric, Something is wrong with your analysis. You were spotted one hundred times during just the last 30 minutes of the contest http://www.reversebeacon.net/dxsd1/dxsd1.php?f=0&c=nc6k&t=dx How did
Bill Leonard's "The Battle of the Hams" is available on line here: http://www.si.com/vault/issue/41748/65/2 73 Frank W3LPL -- Original Message -- Bill Leonard W2SKE (SK) wrote an article for Sports I
forwarded from the Topband Reflector -- Original Message -- It looks like this one was sneaked in over us, but it has the potential of severely affecting amateur radio towers and antennas. I have see
Hi Mike, The lower edge of your LSB signal is probably at least 2.5 kHz below your dial frequency. 7127 is too low, 7128 should be ok. 73 Frank W3LPL -- Original Message -- For the USA it is 7.125, i
Hi Tim, Congratulations, you've discovered some of the affects of low sunspot activity on DX contesting strategy. During the CQWW CW Contest those affects were compounded by the Earth directed affect
Early this month it was my pleasure to be interviewed by Eric, Eric, 4Z1UG. Eric has interviewed more than a hundred well known active hams and made them available on his web site. You will also find
Hi Jack, There were many more phases of spotting network development than you're aware of. It began with voice networks in the 1960s (maybe before). Soon adjacent clubs discovered that they could lis