Well, it seems to me that it would diminish the "blind faith" aspect of declaring an off-time, but surely wouldn't do away with the "element of strategy." After all, you still have to take your 6 hou
I only had about an hour to operate in the Sprint last night, but in 109 QSOs I had 40 CATs and 14 JIMs. Nice! 73, Pete N4ZR The World HF Contest Station Database was updated 1 Feb 03. Are you curren
I'm trying to set up Rec-All to record the upcoming ARRL CW contest, and am having trouble getting good audio in the recording. I have tried both the headphone jack and the External Audio jack on the
Thanks to SM5AJV and F5VCO for their help. The trick is to record in MP3 format, using the L3CODECA.ACM CODEC. Makes for both nice file size and decent audio quality on CW. 73, Pete N4ZR The World HF
Last year I had 8 hours over 100 QSOs -- 3 on 10, 3 on 15 and 2 on 20. This year I had 11 -- 5 on 10, 3 on 15 and 3 on 20. Had my best and third best running hours ever in the ARRL CW, operated virtu
About the former, I can't comment, but I often use a short CQ to check if a frequency is busy. If it is, I leave. As I've commented separately, I was surprised to find fewer frequency fights rather t
It occurs to me that we too often forget to say "thanks" to people who really make a difference to our enjoyment of this hobby. Here are my heroes for today: N6TR and N5KO, for pioneering automated l
This one unfortunately worked both ways -- a number of European contest stations were CQing below 7030 all weekend. If this is to be prevented, I think it will probably take either a unified 40M allo
But with rare exceptions (IARU, for example), our contests are single mode or single band, and none use the WARC bands -- surely there is lots of contest-free spectrum on almost every weekend. 73, Pe
Following is from yesterday's ARRL Letter. There is a lot more detail in the full article on the ARRL's web site: "With World Radiocommunication Conference 2003 (WRC-03) getting under way in about th
I was impressed, during the recent ARRL Phone DX Contest, by the number of UK Foundation license-holders, with their 10-watt limits, and by the relatively good operating style most of them practiced.
Well, OK, me too. I've had my suffix for 49 years, and the whole call since 1977. I think that a whole lot of the secret is consistency. Get one call, stay with it, and be active. On phone, I like my
Maybe the most important reason to keep K8KHZ is that it gives you a "hook" to remember it by, like K7RAT and any number of others. Associations of this sort are often taught as a means of improving
That example makes an interesting point, too. On CW in QRN or QRM , the structure of code characters often provides a lot of clues. Once you have a number, you know that all the other characters will
And I guess it's hard to fault the QRP guys for doing this. But if you ever want to hear a pileup dissolve into chaos, listen to one where the operator "in charge" seems to make a practice of answeri
You're right -- probably I should have used "K5I" or even "ID?" as my example. Either way, what I meant to say was go ahead and answer, send the exchange and then get a callsign fill. "AGN" sent quic
Yikes! Big changes. I suppose this all has to happen over the June-September period(?). Good luck to you both, Martin, and we'll look forward to your being back on the air soon. I've only worked 3 VK
Just for fun, I recorded my ARRL DX CW and Phone contest efforts in MP3 format. I'd like to hear a few samples of how I sounded at the other end, so if anyone who worked me and recorded it would like
According to Ten-Tec's web page, the first batch of Orions began shipping on March 25, and the next one (already sold out) will ship sometime in April. Orders now being taken will probably be June de
In the same vein, when I was HL9TM in 1966-67 all the Red World was off limits. That led to some amusing scenes on SEANET when a net control in DU-land would check in both me and some 20-over UA0. So