Thanks to all who responded, but yesterday I found a boom tube that can be adapted to complete my repaired 5 element 20m yagi (HyGain type). It was hiding in a Thai friend's garage and will have to b
While I would like to carry over the "gentleman's behavior" of ordinary ham radio over into contesting, I have to say this.... When the guy running with the football has a tackler approaching, should
Often in contests as K4VUD in Fla, I irritated someone who recorded my CQs and played them back over the air, SSB. I just stand by and allow the other guy to call CQ for me, thanks. Then I answer cal
I contested from 1959 to about 1990 exactly obeying the rules and especially really believing that all contesters were doing the same. I even gained a very few wins of my category or top 20 rankings.
I promise not to write so much to you patient guys....... Our hobby, then, has a legacy more demanding than most hobbies: honesty. This is beyond motor bike touring, rock climbing, or stamp collectin
FL and HI can be argued to need special consideration re the circle rule for clubs. Both are isolated from touching other states, contain lots of unhabited water area, and moving the center of the ci
In all ARRL DX contests, I am an "odd" mult here in Thailand. I would like to work these contests more, and feel my semi-rare mult status would be especially appreciated to work, but I operate these
Way too many SO2R operations are fake. That is, too often, the robot CQ machine is left on only to hold a frequency while the live operator is running on a different band. Even with the cursed Skimme
Yes, E2E is a legal call sign in Thailand, assigned to the RAST club for contest use. Cope with that one, eh? 73, -- Charly, HS0ZCW _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
How about all the guys with a K at the end of their call signs.... W4YOK gets called "W4YO go ahead" all the time. Just so you know, I am breaking my face with a grin at all the bad news re Skimmer..
An obscure journal issued in Hindi is quoted as reporting new scientific research that proves the human brain can process Morse code, called CW by practitioners, in ways superior to all current affor
I have a 80% successful way of copying one signal out of several that are zero beat. It works on CW or ssb. The FT-9000d has a continuously adjustable Bandwidth control and also Bandpass Tuning contr
I will always say NO to "QSY for points" requests because 1. they seem like manufactured contacts to me, 2. I am following my own plan and this would be a disruption of it, 3. I must walk over to the
An on-line contest..... cite the "worst" CW contesting call sign... rule: call must actually exist and be assigned to someone. HS5DHS HS0ZHS (unfortunately SK) -- Charly, HS0ZCW _____________________
We have in order of "easy" to worst... UR5NN OO9O HS0ZHS OH5HH SE5E, and S55S submitted by K4XS Several winners with no dashes at all, or all dashes. E5E would be good because people would be searchi
Club Log list of most wanted entities shows 7 prefixes that start with "K" in the top 50. Come on, USA, let go of your most wanted ! -- Charly, HS0ZCW _______________________________________________
I do not normally pray ...because the line is dead... but I do pray that a voice skimmer is never invented. I am sure it will be and dread that day, but enguneers march on ... needed or not. I apprec
The first advantage I can think of for the Skimmer is that it is now possible to see that some stations are CQing on two bands at exactly the same moment in time. I am surprised that some are not sho
Hey Bob, good of you to ask. Dear all hams, Contesting has many positive and rewarding aspects. Let me list some... -increases your ability to copy simple but exacting information in a highly orderly
You think the ARRL DX contests are boring... then do not operate them from HS because the typical openings to NA are a little over an hour at local sunrise and local sunset. You may see that is about