Sure it can. Suck it up! Keep tuning. And CQ when you find a spot--those 'big guns' have to S&P, too. That's the nature and beauty of SS. You've got to work for the Q's. You want a QSO with the same
No. Be strong. Click X....Click X NOW!!......Keep away from the keyboard.....fingers.......must........type.........can't........stop......t hem...... Makes me wonder why anyone would expect to be c
What award requires such a thing? Sounds like that's an award not worth having if the sponsor has so little trust and faith about whether the op was QRP becasue /QRP is not appended to his call in t
-- Steve, K0SR, very appropriately made the following comment pertaining to QRP Contest Operators: AND on the Thank you for mentioning this, Steve. I sincerely hope your admonition will help some of
* When working at high speeds, I am used to press <insert> to send the station's rprt + number *while* entering the callsign, This function is implemented in Morse Runner 1.4, please download the lat
Anyone hear's what he's got for antennas, please let me know. I want what he's got. He was big here much of the weekend. 73, dale, kg5u _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mail
The view from the other side: on a run frequency. You have no idea what could be going on - by Sunday morning I am so tired I can barely remember to press F1. It would be easy to press F1 then ESC or
Based on the list of spots of W9WI found on DX Summit after the contest, at least one spotter made a rash assumption about my QTH. He'll lose the QSO, and so will anyone else who followed that spot &
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:55:25 -0200 "PY2NY - Vitor" <py2ny@arrl.net> wrote: Fast and quick... Used QRP to call stations at ARRL 10m last week end. With some guys, was the only way to be listened and w
Joe Contester?????/ Who is that? And why must one subscribe to another list to see the 'records' list? dale, kg5u On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:48:49 -0800 (PST) Joe Contester <radiosporting@yahoo.com> wrot
Did anyone notice the Women's sending and receiving scores? I think I'm in love. dale, kg5u _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://li
Each time I prepare for a contest, I try to think of something I can do to improve my station or my operating ability. This time, for NAQP CW, I decided I needed to elevate the 12AVQ (10-15-20m) grou
When are people going to realize that performance and ability in contests does not and should not matter. Participation, no matter how inept or expert, is what's important. It is demeaning and degrad
It was interesting how may CAT's there were. It's time to hose down my keyboard. My 'A' was acting intermittent a quarter way through the contest....it took two or three keystrokes for an A to finall
Bob, Don't worry about not having arranged it sooner. There is no sooner, apparently. I think the last time there was an open season on the rooms where the hotel was taking reservations, they were go
While waiting in queue to work a station, I heard a CA station give ORG in his exchange. The DX came back and said 'OR?' CA came back and said 'No. ORG.' I think the DX finally caved after two go rou
I'm not so sure that's a solution, either. There the "Let's leave early for the (enter your favorite destination here> and beat the traffic" phenomenon, too. By Sunday, everyone who has worked the '
At what point in time will 'winning' via dink's 3830 contest score reports have more weight (ie, be cause for celebration, sighs of relief/grief, etc) than the published final results in the magazine
I always wonder and have never really found out: If I find a spot where, with 500Hz filter in line, I don't hear a station on the frequency, but I do know there are adjacent frequency stations above