The debate regarding SO1R / SOnR got me looking down the road. (No, I'm not moving.) In the future, these terms may become totally irrelevant. I'm going to lighten this up a little bit. Here's my sum
We already discussed "one data point" does not constitute a finding. But I did spent part of today analyzing the latest 3830 NAQP RTTY claimed scores. I will forward my Excel spreadsheet to anyone in
Bill, I experienced the same problem in my Kenwood TS-950SDX. The service shop discovered a problem in the front end of the receiver. (I think it was diodes that had 'gone bad' - most likely a EMP /
FireBrick came trolling with a can of gas, looking for a match when he wrote... "how can we liven this group up?" Bill H. in Chicagoland webcams at http://24.14.49.4:8080 weather at http://hhweather.
When you hit the PTT when your transceiver is in FSK mode it, may transmit either a mark or a space. Then when you close the FSK input, you will shift to the opposite tone. The manufacturers can't se
Hey fellow RTTYers... Need some more excitement? They're about to start up the SOxR discussion on the cq-contest reflector... so if you can stand the heat, come on in... the water's fine! 73 de Bob -
This is an FYI regarding software you might want to use when troubleshooting CAT or other serial (or parallel) port issues. It is not a solution in itself but it is a tool that will show you what inf
Author: Robert Chudek - KØRC <k0rc@citlink.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:19:51 -0500
Well I'm with you here Ty, I can't seem to get my call on many respectable lists either! And btw, how were those "Top Seventeen" stations selected anyway? And who determined the list should be trunca
Author: Robert Chudek - KØRC <k0rc@citlink.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:25:05 -0500
Goetz, A good question! I log what the station is sending. But I think I have been "dinged" in the past because the DX station was sending the "wrong" information (sending CQ Zone instead of ITU Zone
Author: Robert Chudek - KØRC <k0rc@citlink.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:24:11 -0500
I posted this message earlier on the Digitalradio Yahoo Groups forum. I see there's been a lot of good comments circulating and this is helping to educate operators regarding the beacon system. Here'
Author: Robert Chudek - KØRC <k0rc@citlink.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 02:03:26 -0500
Well I spent the better part of today importing and massaging the data from the 2006 CQWW RTTY Scores Summary. You can get a copy of the spreadsheet here: http://tinyurl.com/qvnfg The spreadsheet rec
Author: Robert Chudek - KØRC <k0rc@citlink.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 10:52:55 -0500
Hello Jerry, It looks like you found a mistake in my spreadsheet. Some of the numbers imported into Excel came along with "spaces" trailing behind them. This causes Excel to ignore that field when ca
Author: Robert Chudek - KØRC <k0rc@citlink.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 14:40:23 -0500
Thanks Jerry, You're right about W4BQF and I have made that correction to the master file. 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN I see at least one other miscalculation: W4BQF has a similar space error. Didn
Author: Robert Chudek - KØRC <k0rc@citlink.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:21:20 -0500
The latest 2006 CQWW RTTY Excel scoresheet can be downloaded form here: http://tinyurl.com/qvnfg This will be Revision 4 which contains both USA and DX tables! Click the different tabs at the bottom
Author: Robert Chudek - KØRC <k0rc@citlink.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:09:26 -0500
It appears the TINYURL.COM engine ran out of oil... it's not working right now... there must have been a mad dash for this file! :-) So here's a direct link to the server... http://chudek.aberon.net/
Author: Robert Chudek - KØRC <k0rc@citlink.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:36:50 -0500
Barry, I heard/printed you on 40 last night but you couldn't hear me. I'm barefoot, only running 100 Watts to a 1e dipole up 20m and you're more or less off the end. I'll be looking for you in the ne
Author: Robert Chudek - KØRC <k0rc@citlink.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:35:01 -0500
RTTY Contesters, I uploaded the 2006 Contest Scheduler - JARTS RTTY Excel spreadsheet file for your downloading pleasure. :-) I reconfigured this spreadsheet so local time and the daily bandmaps rema
Author: Robert Chudek - KØRC <k0rc@citlink.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:10:31 -0500
My log is stuck in limbo... It puqued on line 454 which had S51MA/QRP logged so I took that line out of the log completely. I resubmitted and then it puqued on line 454 again, the next line in the lo
Author: Robert Chudek - KØRC <k0rc@citlink.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:54:41 -0500
UPDATE: Well with a rested set of eyes looking at my log, I found the problem, fixed it, resubmitted the log, and got my acknowledgement that my log is "in the log". This was a 1 in a million chance
Author: Robert Chudek - KØRC <k0rc@citlink.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:39:41 -0500
The JARTS RTTY Contest exchange includes the operator age. The question come up on one of the reflectors regarding the apparent aging of the contest community. I took my 616 QSO log and ran it throug