6) Spotting and Use of Spots a) Self-spotting Self-spotting is the practice of announcing your own call and run frequency on the spotting network. A few contests have categories that allow self-spot
It also says the rules for a specific contest override the general rules, which is one of the rules George quoted. Does that mean the statement for SOA and multi-ops in the actual ARRL DX Contest rul
It says on the first line of the General Rules for All ARRL Contests : 1.1.Rules for individual contests or events, including Field Day, take precedence over all General Rules. ______________________
Steve, The section 3.14 you quoted is in the General Rules for ARRL Contests. Section 1.1.General Rules for ARRL Contests. states the following: "1.1.Rules for individual contests or events, includin
Hi All, I am trying to collect some information about the past contest activity that has taken place from Bonaire. This is for a webpage I am putting together. I will be also giving a presentation ab
During the past few years on my trip to Bonaire for ARRL DX CW I have made it a habit to get up early every morning before/after the contest to work JA's on 40 CW. I would have big pileups every morn
Don't miss the Georgia QSO Party this weekend. Saturday 1800-0400Z and Sunday 1400-2359Z. We have worked hard to make this version of the GQP enjoyable for all. We have commitments to have all 159 Ge
I am looking for reports on how our signal was from K4BAI/m compared to the other mobiles in the GQP this weekend. I know N4PN was probably the loudest of the bunch because he was running an amp. I b
My last posting got cut off at the top. Lets try again.... I have made arrangements with The Signman of Baton Rouge for WRTC 2006 callsign badges. He will hopefully have the section in his Club/Organ
Here is the link to order a WRTC callsign badge. www.thesignman.com/clubs/wrtc.html For people who order and would like pickup at Dayton, please ask them to note this request in the ENTER DETAILS BEL
The biggest contest station around Zainesville is Ev, WZ8P. I do remember there is a guy who is a DXer not far from Ev that has a bunch of very big free standing towers with a single yagi on each tow
I think the only reason that DC is grouped in with MD is because is counted as the same section (MDC) by the ARRL . Eric has a good argument for making DC a separate multiplier. New Brunswick, Nova S
Nice to see all this talk about NAQP a full 3 months before the next one. The NA Sprint and NAQP CW are two of my favorite contests. Does that mean we are going to see all you guys active in the next
Scott, W2LC wrote "Why does NY have 4 sections ?" And what about OH, MI and WCF ? The truth is that these sections came to be for reasons that have nothing to do with ham radio contesting. The ARRL c
See http://www.wtvm.com/global/story.asp?s=6702736 for the local TV news story on our Field Day at the Columbus (GA) ARC. We were using the SECC club callsign W4AN. Make sure you watch the video of t
Back in the late 1980's and early 90's when I was attending Ohio State I operated at W8LT. Our club station was located in a room on the 4th floor of the Horseshoe. I have many fond memories of that
This thread sure brings back some nice memories I attended the awards dinner for the Bermuda Contest back in 1984. I was there with N8ET to operate the CQWW DX SSB contest at VP9AD. I remember N3RD,W
If you give US stations a point for working each other it would somewhat level the playing field vs EU stations. My guess is in EU that CQWW is a combination of a DX contest and Sweepstakes. I bet if
Did anyone else notice this on the 3830 claimed score listings ? A dead even tie for the USA high claimed score for the CW HP category. I can't recall ever seeing this happen before. It amazes me thi
We use one of the USB to serial adapters that you can find at your local Office Depot to do radio control for K4BAI's FT1000MP to a Dell laptop. They cost something like $20. Jeff KU8E ______________