It's patently obvious, Craig, that you are young and your memory cells are well and firmly intact. Mine, however, are another thing: I am frequently surprised to find my call in contest results listi
Has anyone read the rules? 5. Contest Exchange: 5.1. IARU member society HQ stations send signal report and official IARU member society abbreviation. IARU International Secretariat club station NU1
My station is in one of the carpeted bedrooms of my one-story house. Even so, I still get cold feet during contests (maybe I should stand a bit more often). My solution is wear socks and throw a bat
Kelly, Check out N6TR/K5TR's SO2R circuit: http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/trlog/switch.pdf It was the basis for an SO2R box I built which also included switching control for bandpass filters and remote ant
Congratulations, Tom, and thanks for the good info. I had intermittent noise in my subdivision. It was s9 on 80m-10m and seemed to be most active during days of high humidity (in Houston, that means
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:02:00 -0000 "W. Wright, W5XD" <w5xd@writelog.com> wrote: ... gain. Would you really be willing to give access to your bank account to an organization that pays its people like t
ARRL still has it's Intruder service of some sort going, doesn't it? Maybe notifying ARRL about it will lend some weight to the issue with the VOA folks. According to some of the intruder reports fro
Hmmmm.. A local Houston area contester whom I consider to be a contesting machine told me himseLF considers N5TJ to be a machine. dale, kg5u -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! TH
Anyone hearing the ditting QRM on ~14024.8? It's been going for over 24 hours now. It's about 270-300 degs azimuth from Houston, TX. And about 340 from YV1NX' QTH. 73, dale, kg5u -- The world's top c
If they were elsewhere in the band, would you consider that hogging, too, Barry? Gee, it seems to me that they have to be somewhere. Down at the bottom of the band edges sure keeps them out of where
Hi, Doug Three or four months ago, I wrote a vb4 program to take the contest calendar listing from the website as a .txt file and present the listing in a form. I could select those contests I wanted
Operating QRP and doing a lot of S&P'ing, I run across this situation a number of times during a contest. I try to find a spot to wedge into above or below the frequency and give the needed station's
Ack! Has the time come for establishment of a CQ Contest Assisted reflector? ;-) 73, dale, kg5u -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! THE OFFICIAL FILM of WRTC 2002 now on professi
That seems unfair. What about when W4ABC works a bunch of stations (SSB, CW, or Both), but doesn't submit a log at all? What happens to the stations he worked? Do they get similarly assessed? dale, k
On further reflection, while this still seems to me to be unfair to the 4 ssb ops W1XYZ worked, shouldn't W1XYZ be punished for his negligence in including them in his CW log? Why must the innocent
A couple of years ago, a pair of Radio Shack headphones I had been using broke and no amount of epoxy seemed to be able to keep them together. While in the local Walgreen's (drug store), I noticed a
For those of us in the rest of the country that is not FL and wanting to make sure the instructions are clearly understood before we punch...er...work FCG stations in the NAQP, am I correct in under
The few times I ever operate a phone contest from home don't cause me to be too concerned about the efficiency of my microphone setup. In the past I have used Telex boom mic/headsets and Heil boom m