The topic of how often to sign one's callsign comes up on this list every so often. IMHO this post: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/1998-07/msg00386.html is the defintive commen
I do not that that Dick's comments will register with the poor operators you describe. Dick's post was directed at the people who want to insist that some other station has to sign his callsign every
CW Sprinting - Beginners Guide - by W4AN http://www.contesting.com/articles/198 The Sprint Survival Web Page "The Sprint - the most fun you can have in 4 hours with your clothes on." - N6TR http://n6
Clearly getting band control data from the Yeasu radios is eaiser and those of us (me) with two kenwood radios normally have the LPT ports drive the band decoders. You only need two LPT ports since y
Contesters, What follows is what has become my biannual post to get you to think about ways of getting a few more stations on in the CW sprint. The CW Sprint is coming up on February 13, 2005. Activi
Contesters, Back in December there was talk on this reflector of updating the 10 meter contest records. Ken Harker WM5R decided he wanted to take on the project - a big project if you try to do the s
Try again in the morning. I think I see what was acting up. -- George Fremin III - K5TR geoiii@kkn.net http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list
No - this web site has problems - it mostly flash media but I don't think that is why it fails to render in some browsers. I think there are problems with the HTML coding that need to be cleaned up.
Yes - that was a very fine effort by N5TJ but the world has changed since the early 1990's. You should look at the top ten over the last 5 or 10 years. The huge increases in European amateur populati
The NAQP SSB and the Jan VHF contest have shared this weekend for years. -- George Fremin III - K5TR geoiii@kkn.net http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! TH
Sprinters, Even though I have never done very well in the CW sprint I think is is a great contest worthy of promotion. While I am not opposed to adding an additional sprint as it is hard to get good
One of the great things about he ARRL contest is that this has a M/S category that can be truly called a Multi-op Single transmitter category. The limit on band changes makes it possible to do well i
This brings up in my mind something I have been wondering about throughout this entire discussion. Of those that would like to have a contest that is shorter than 48 hours - are you all currently com
No - living closer to your target area is the key. Most DX contests require a lot of contacts with Europe - for two reasons: - There are a lot of countries in Europe. - There are a lot of radio ops i
It is a beautiful spring afternoon here in the Texas hill country. One of those days when I would normally be out working on my station but, when I look at those towers and antennas all I can think a
Hal N4GG asked a question much like this a few months ago. The results are here: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2003-11/msg00143.html and a related question: http://lists.conte
Much more than that - and as WC1M (I think) said it is just not fast enough to be able to do things like dropping your callsign in a pile up and then going back to your CQing. And doing this several
As W0UN pointed out the NQN filters are a bit better at filtering and from the test he describes they might handle more power or mismatch then either the Dunestart or ICE filters. If you are M/M or
Sprinters, The CW Sprint is coming up on September 12, 2004. Even though I have never done very well in the CW sprint, I think is is a great contest worthy of promotion. Activity in this contest has
Yep - and - not having 160 on your amp is not a problem for RTTY contests, Sweepstakes or any non-160 single band contests. -- George Fremin III - K5TR geoiii@kkn.net http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr _______