On 09/03/2013 04:23, Pete Smith N4ZR replied: Yet more foolishness. So long as we decide where to draw the lines, We have already, foolishly, crossed the line separating amateur radio from other form
The survey is OPEN to all. It's not a survey! Yes, it looks like a survey, and I've responded to it myself but, in reality, it's not a survey. Rather, it appears to be, in part, a tool or a pretext
While some pine for the days of yore when there were no devices containing silicon involved in radio, I don't know what that is intended to mean. Does anyone? the reality is that packet, spotting ne
I bet sailboat racing was a lot different before they had GPS. Sometimes I don't make my points clearly. "no one, anywhere, uses another form of propulsion in sailboat racing and claims to be sailin
There is no way that this will save K1TN any time (sorry, old buddy). On the contrary, I have done it, in both CQWW CW and CQWW SSB, and it does save time. Every unnecessary syllable or character dr
CT1BOH has given us something to think about. He describes a scale, an intensity, of contesting that most of us have never experienced. Regardless of differences in scale, there remain basic principl
Like all good conjuring tricks, it's obvious once you know how it's done. 1. Operate from a reasonably "rare" country. 2. Make sure a there's a local MO station within ground wave range (on all bands
The data base contain only callsignes of the Polish stations. SD - http://www.ei5di.com/sd/spdx.zip Thanks Chris SP5KP, 3Z5W, 3Z40KP, ex SN5N 73, Paul EI5DI _________________________________________
I tried some remote operation in the 10m contest using a TS480 and Remoterig. The radio control worked fine, but we had lots of problems with dropped dits, timing problems, etc. on CW, presumably du
Over the last few days, this thread has included the terms listed below. I don't recognise amateur radio contesting in any of them. Most are technical terms specific to the internet, a public communi
Your objection to any use of the Internet or commercial telecomm facilities in any ham radio activity is well known. You've been grinding the same flawed axe for years. Once again, Bob has misrepres
First thing, email on a contest-related reflector is not a "ham radio activity". Could this be a denial of reality? Email to cq-contest is indeed ham radio activity, as is reading QST, going to Dayt
<snip> I *would* be opposed if, as someone has suggested, entrepreneurs set up excellent stations and collected "rent" for allowing them to be used for contesting. As I think I've said before, I don'
EI5DI said: "W5OV will immediately say that there are no rules regulating remote control in contesting." Sorry - that accusation is also completely false: Is "completely false" even more false than
The basic reason why I took such strong exception to the idea of pure pay-to-play is that it seems to me part of a pernicious trend. Why go to the trouble of learning all we do in the course of buil
From today's Guardian newspaper, London http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/27/mount-everest-ladder-hillary-step A ladder up the Hillary Step, and separate fixed ropes "almost from base camp to
Why is this such a bitter pill for some people to swallow? The station is in one location and that is the location that counts, That is where the RF comes from and goes to. When you add the hardware
Jim W2LC has raised a number of valid issues that would be better dealt with by the Contests Advisory Committee and the DXCC Advisory Committee. Some of the issues are complex, and will require the i
As Scott W2LC noted, "the technology exists today to place a station capable of remote operation on each and every DXCC entity in the world." Want to make a name for yourself? Be the first to operate
1. Apples (in your homeland). You have problems with location, antenna restrictions, you travel across the country and stay away from your beloved station for too long, etc. In order to find a solut