I recall similar language being printed on U.S. licenses in the past -- but it's not on my current license, issued in 2004. Nor can I find it in the current FCC regulations. Of course, regulations ob
Agreed fully. Obviously I copy fairly well, both letters & numbers :) They say the key to getting past the 12wpm hump is learning to copy letters as a single sound -- to hear ..- and immediately thin
Thing is, the means by which a given end result may be accomplished are many. Radio amateurs are an inventive bunch. If one means is (are?) outlawed, we will find another means. You'll end up playing
IMHO, we too often suggest (and not quite as often, adopt) rules that are more complicated than necessary to achieve the desired goal. The NA Sprint has addressed this issue in a creative but simple
This and other similar comments suggest we're debating the wrong issue. Is split operation the problem? Or is the problem the continuous callers -- those who continue to call the DX even when he's co
Ask an American politician (all parties, all levels of office) and they'll tell you "crime is rising, but I have a plan to stop it". But if you check police records, you find that we have *less* of m
FYI the deadline for Tennessee QSO Party logs is this weekend. Please get your entries in to logs@tnqp.org. Thanks! -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View, TN EM66 _________________________________________
Can't figure it out. - His fist (OK, his computer's fist :) ) is good. - His signal is strong but perfectly clean. - He's not trying to run anyone off their run frequency. - He seems to copy the call
Gerry Hull wrote: But the story does not answer my question: In those days, they did not use International Morse Code (what we use today), they used "American" Morse Code... All of the land-line tele
While the people population of Tennessee is (only) 20% larger than that of Minnesota, the ham population is 45% larger. I doubt TCG will be interested in apologizing for that fact :) -- Doug Smith W9
Both of those "skinny" states have ham populations that are the envy of us "fat state guys here in Minnesota Wireless Association. But we manage to compete with what we have. While the people popula
Can't answer your question but I think you should consider option #4: they're not sure how to respond to a question that can't be answered with a F-key message. I have heard from some operators who s
Of course, the problem with that is you have to change the exchange, otherwise you have no way of knowing which state a W station is in:) -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View, TN EM66 ___________________
Fully agreed -- as always, thanks guys! I think we need to add categories based on blood alcohol level. Drinking is not conducive to call sign copying accuracy. :) At least for me, performance peaks
I am using a rock solid 250hz bandwidth filter. That person is "non existent to me in most cases" when I am 250hz away. I have a good narrow filter as well; if you're CQing 250Hz from where I'm CQing
Or, Cabrillo should be amended to allow for seconds. No, I didn't just say that:) -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View, TN EM66 _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-
Being a Milwaukee native, my beverage of choice is of course not bourbon:) On the one hand, I'm a bit concerned nobody is taking Jukka's comment about cardio metrics seriously. Many of us are not in
If you don't want to wait 30 seconds to hear the other station's ID, then just find clear frequency, call CQ yourself and make those 2-3 or whatever Q's. I can't find a clear frequency because they'r
Doesn't that just make Radio 2 the wasted asset, instead of Radio 1? I mean, yes, it's better to have a second radio you can sit on non-IDing stations while you run or S&P IDing stations on the first
Are we sure the pileups will get larger with ID required? Without frequent ID, your pileup contains some number of dupes -- stations calling you because they think they may need you at least for a QS