How could this be made into an excellent 20m antenna? It will have very deep nulls (30dB+) and super high SWR, plus likely high feedline loss. A 32' dipole would be a better antenna. John KK9A Fed an
Compare W8TAH's 125ft dipole to a resonant dipole on 20m. Broadside his antenna will be 27dB WEAKER and on the ends his antenna will be about 2dB stronger than the 1/2wl dipole. The null area has at
There are far bigger time wasters in RTTY contests! Macros can really be trimmed. There is no reason to send everyone's callsign multiple times during every exchange and no reason to send everything
I would like to know what the WW committee thinks about your statement? For example, one W6 station last weekend sent me 04 04 CA CA which printed clearly on multiple decoders. This is not physically
Thanks Ed for the official WW RTTY committee input. If my aforementioned station gave out the wrong zone to everyone and CQWW noticed this, I am sure that my QSO would count by logging what was sent.
Alpha 87A's are pretty inexpensive now. I am not sure how it works without Alpha Max, I owned one with Alpha Max and it tuned very nicely. My comment regarding this amp is that they are very expensiv
Winning a contest typically involves working more causal operators than the competition. Deleting valid QSOs would certainly discourage serious competition. John KK9A I lost quite a few QSOs. For a n
I imagine that they both use the same standard KEY and headphone plugs and possibly the same mic wiring. Interfacing it with a modern computer is the tricky part. John KK9A To: "cq-contest@contesting
That seems like very little usable bandwidth for a dipole. Usually I attempt to center mine around 3.72 Mhz. GL John KK9A - P40A in CQWW Phone I was licensed in 1953,easily have DXCC on each band abo
7.128 is the lowest I will go when in the US however I heard a number of US stations below that in last weekend's contest so I am wondering if the FCC rules have changed. A few US stations even calle
In Sweepstakes you also get 2 points for working some DX stations however you get zero points for others. Maybe we can complain about his next week:) John KK9A Hey guys, there is a contest (CW) this
That would be great, I could make one 3 point contact and have 7 country mults and 19 zone mults. John KK9A One simple solution is to give everyone credit for their own country and country's zone(s)
I don't know, I was being facetious. It was your suggestion. It seems wrong to make one QSO and have 26 multipliers. John KK9A And what will that do for you? Barry W2UP John KK9A To: cq-contest@conte
3830 is a great place to submit a story of your operation along with your score but I do not see the urgency in posting that DF7ZS does. Many of us have other things going on in our lives besides con
I will second the nomination. Kelly's posts are always well written and sensible. Let's not make entering a contest more complicated. FWIW, I had no internet service at the Aruba home where I contest
Maybe he is bored from only operating two CW radios:) If you have ever been at the DX end of a phone contest pileup you'll find his two radio operation amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XujVsh
I have seen similar discussions many times on the RTTY list. For some reason on that mode CQ is typically sent after the callsign. The skimmer guys have worked on avoiding bad spots due to this pract
Wow, that is very sad news! I have worked Steve so times that GW4BLE became an easy callsign to recognize. He recorded many of his contests and somehow put the audio clips of the stations that he wor
Here are some numbers from the 2016 CQWW CW contest that are interesting: Single-Op High All Bands ZF2MJ.........14,929,938 (N6MJ) CR3OO.........14,112,630 (CT1BOH) TI5W..........14,043,125 (KL9A) V4
Top Ten is a great company with excellent customer service, I still use their band decoders. I used a DX Doubler for many years however even when computers came with a parallel port it was sometimes