I often wonder the same for the "FO" suffixes. Years ago someone told me about the time Massey-Ferguson changed from a logo that spelled out the name to the letters "MF" and their sales took a dip. S
Joe W9RCJ was one of my Elmers. I grew up about 6 miles from him and he was very active in the local club. I still have a couple of his QSL's with the cowboy riding the bronc and the "Ragtime Cowboy
You still have to COPY it, don't you? I've done that many times. In SS, if I come across a new mult and my logger says a mult is worth 10 minutes, if it takes me 8 minutes to get thru the pileup I've
Hell, in Poisson d'Avril you can LOG each station as often as you can, even if you didn't work him. :-) 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contes
Yep, happens every year, particularly in ARRL DX SSB on Sunday morning. It's an almost sure bet that these same USA stations I've worked to get them off the freq calling me will send me a QSL, too. S
Someone seems to be missing something. I was speaking of ARRL DX contest. In that contest, neither of the two U.S. stations gets any credit for working another U.S. station. What difference does it m
Yeah baby! One of my favorite contests. I just wish I could figure out how I could win. Even in the year I had 1.874 X 10E49 points I STILL got beat. 73, Zack W9SZ ___________________________________
Hello, I remember this contest a few years back but haven't seen anything about it in the last few years. What happened to it? Who sponsored it? It was a unique contest because the exchange and scori
There are quite a few beacons on 10 meters. We have one here in Champaign, IL - KA9SZX on 28215. It's only running less than a watt, so if you can hear it, you know the band is open! There's a pretty
Depends. A few years ago I was operating unassisted in All-Asia CW and stumbled across 4S7AX calling CQ. He started working a pileup of JA's. I managed to work him but he was only QRV for a half hour
You don't seem to be getting it. It doesn't matter whether they are casual contesters or multi-award-winning stations in general; the ultimate question is DID THEY SEND IN THEIR LOGS? If they didn't
Why not? Now, IF the exchange you sent affects the other person's scoring (e.g. giving the wrong state in SS or the wrong grid in VHF contests) I consider that to be unethical. But if what you're sen
Dave, I think I owe you one. I had forgotten that rule but there has always been something in the dim murky corners of my mind telling me that workling dupes was really bad. You've identified it and
Aww shucks, you shouldn't have let the secret out ... 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailm
Exactly so! We don't want SS to turn into a VHF contest. BTW the VHF SS is only a month away. I hope to drag all my bands to a hilltop again. I'll probably freeze my tuchis but it will be fun. :) 73,
I don't think the complaint was about the contests interfering with each other. I think it was more like "How do I seriously compete in all of them at once?" I will be QRP portable in the VHF SS, so
The solution is to get your children involved in ham radio and contesting long before they reach marrying age. That way they will say (to themselves or otherwise) "We can't get married on CQWW weeken
AHA! Hans, I remembered the name of the law in physics that follows roughly the same wording. It's called the Totalitarian Law of Physics. 73, Zack W9SZ ______________________________________________
I worked my first 150 countries or so on 40 CW, including the last Peter I and the AH1A DXpeditions, with a low sloping dipole. The top was about 30 feet off the ground and the bottom end was only 3