I agree with that; but I maintain that if the sender is unable to "communicate" due to speaking or using language or abbreviations that others cannot understand, it's up to the others to let the sen
........ And I rember working dozens of those, all the way back into the early '70s. What's so unusual bout it??????? "N" has LONG been known to represent "9" when used in a signal report or contest
Actually, it's always been so; it's just that with e-mail reflectors like this, everybody can start kibitzing and moaning and groaning about how they got snookered, or beat out, or otherwise flummox
I send my call before my exchange then immediately afterward again; I figger the double-callsign hits the DX as unusual enough to listen more closely and most often, they do come back with "K0XP TU".
Those oddball ASCII characters are because the sender used Rich Text or HTML to write their message. The server that passes on the post puts those in, and our text-only e-mail readers interpret them
Me, too. Technically, it should be only kilo but in reality, most of us say kilowatt when we mean K. In fact, if YOU say "kilo watt" to me as a phonetic for part of your callsign, I'm not going to un
For one thing, because the ARRL has said they will not allow DXCC credit when either log containing a claimed new DXCC credit has been made public in this way. CQ continues to fly in the face of thi
That seems to be the case; still, it would be nice for ARRL to respond to the question put to them last year about this issue and clarify it once and for all. It's sometimes not enough for them to l
....... And then there is what we used to say back in the good ole days: "FULL GALLON!" *-) Steve, K0XP _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.
If he sends you a QSL, why shouldn't you want to send one back to him?? Has nothing whatsoever to do with his contest log. Steve, K0XP _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest maili
Still, that's not written in stone; the DXCC rule, on the other hand, IS. Steve, K0XP _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.co
CW-copying being nearly as easy as reading printed tomes, I keep wondering when some smartash will invent a machine to copy voice and transcribe it to CW so I can finally understand voice modes. I f
As a matter of fact, there used to be V/UHF propagation beacons on one or the other, I forget which one. They were maintained by a priest whom I believe retired some years ago and the beacons were t