If you are seeing many spots before they are workable, one of those other skills to which you refer needs more work. That is, knowing your station and setting filters to keep you from wasting time cl
That's not always true, Ria. I've had Verizon service for years. Yesterday, I was skiing at Arapahoe Basin, located right on the Continental Divide a little south of I-70. There is NO Verizon coverag
Shelby, You're right. Let's discourage guys from getting on the air in contests. Contesting and amateur radio are growing too fast and the bands are way too crowded without all the thousands of remot
Just read the 3830 writeup of KU1CW in WPX to see how things can go wrong. Barry W2UP 73 Steve KL7SB Why it is out of line? I have taken far more abuse on the forum than that. Paul does not like anyt
First, the 2017 ARRL DX CW contest results are posted on the ARRL web site. Next, it never ceases to amaze me how a) some people don't bother listening to the exchange and go with prefills, and b) so
Be interesting to see how many of those ops submitted logs as unassisted. Barry W2UP So some ops are incapable of understanding propagation and likely callsigns and this is 6Y2T's fault? A quick peru
I've lost points when the other guy sent his own call incorrectly. I had a recording to prove it. Is that fair? Barry W2UP 73, Scott K9MA -- Scott Ellington -- via iPad On Jun 15, 2017, at 7:44 AM, N
If your sidetone is turned off, as was the case when I operated SO2R, there's nothing heard by the operator during transmit. Barry, OK1/W2UP "must record the transmitted and received audio as heard b
Bart, How about considering changes to the Club rules similar to what CQ recently did? That is, if someone who is a member of a contest club operates outside their club circle, but within the US, it
John makes a very good point. Every guest op has a host taking care of station issues, making meals, etc. It makes no difference whether a guest op is on site with a 3 ft long connection to the radio
Bart, With your quoted definition, there have been a lot of miscategorized operations over the years. I've even read in 3830 write-ups about station hosts swapping out amps, climbing the tower, etc.
The problem is there's no way to enforce any of this, short of having streaming video of the entire station. Barry W2UP In a true single op, this wouldn't happen. You would stop and fix the problem y
When I lived in PA, my neighbor had a dog fence, closest point probably about 300 ft from my tower. No issues at all. Barry W2UP On 7/28/2017 21:53, Mike Ricketts wrote: I live on a corner lot and th
Trent, I believe they should be combined. That said... There are 2 main reasons SO beats SOA: 1. Most ops don't know how to efficiently operate SOA. I believe it was K3WW who coined the term, "single
Rule #1 of minimizing maintenance: Don't put moving parts somewhere where they are hard to get to for repair/replacement. Barry W2UP On 8/7/2017 11:59 AM, Jim Brown wrote: If you don't need to tri-pl
Not me. 1. Wrong mode 2. No LP category for non-asians Barry W2UP Chuck W5PR (Hoping for one 10m Asia contact) Hope to c u in All Asia tomorrow. 73, Charly, HS0ZCW _________________________________
Just got a new home computer (win10). When I run Morserunner and hit ALT-W to delete a callsign, I get a windows system sound/chime. Anyone know which one it is and how I turn it off? Tnx, Barry W2U
Just a follow-up to my own question. By some trial and error, turning various sounds on and off, turns out the noise was coming from what Windows calls Default Beep. I changed the sound to None and
Yeah, but there is still the need for those stupid zero pointers for zone and country credit... You're correct about the reason for having US to US points in the RTTY contest. I'm all for the change
Shelby, That's correct (for me). I stopped RTTY contesting about then. However, I still have a vested interest in my record :-) Barry W2UP 73, Shelby Yeah, but there is still the need for those stu