As you've said before: "Un chassant sachant chasser chassait sans son chien" 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lis
Will the REAL translation please stand up? :-) "The hunter who knows how to hunt, hunts without his dog." 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Cont
I did that one year. I called and called a station on 40 SSB late one night in a contest. He never came back to me, and no one told me I was calling him out of band. I guess there were so few people
Although it's great that things can be put on internet now and/or stored in a computer, sometimes I find I need the hard copy. The great thing about having things in digital form is that you only pri
We sure treat the June/September VHF QSO Parties like contests around here! Where does ARRL state these aren't contests? It's amazing how much some of us put into this hobby just for contesting (time
I've watched QST decline in technical quality over the last few years. It wasn't that long ago that Zack Lau and Rick Campbell were getting microwave trasnverter articles published in QST. I have a f
K1ZZ is also a subscriber to the WA1MBA microwave reflector. I suspect probably other contesting and VHF+ groups too, where he's more of a lurker. I've worked him in several contests also. I conside
I almost always operate QRP portable in VHF+ contests. In ARRL contests, the limit for this category is 10 watts (not 5 as in commonly accepted HF QRP circles). 10 watts will go a LONG way with decen
Hmm ... waste of time ... isn't that what hobbies are for? With the exception of public service activities, you could consider ALL ham radio activities an elegant waste of time (and money). What I do
Technically, "QRL?" means "Are you busy?", not "Is this frequency in use?" It was originally used in traffic handling scenarios. It's not the same thing. There was a movement once to adopt "IE" (didi
I think you folks should know who he ("Joe Contester") is. As soon as he signed his name, I knew. I believe he's been on this reflector for some time now. :-) 73, Zack W9SZ __________________________
If someone only did this once, and then figured out the other station wasn't in the contest and had a sked or was calling someone else, they should leave him alone. I wouldn't call and call repeatedl
Hey ... "Top Cat" !! George Foreman named ALL his sons George E. Foreman. I just heard him say on the radio that he did it with old age and memory loss in mind. That way he never forgets his sons' na
I think the first ARRL DX contest I participated in was in 1969 or 1970. I probably made all of 30 QSO's. I vaguely remember hearing something about "quotas". Can someone who remembers explain that i
I generally call a station zero-beat with his transmit frequency. I then listen and if he's answering someone else, I pay attention to where that station is transmitting. If he's worked a couple stat
Interesting. I generally use "Whiskey Nine Sierra Zulu" for my call in those rare moments when I operate in an SSB contest. In heavy QRM or weak signal conditions, it's somehow usually mistaken for "
I don't see that EO6F broke any rules. If he didn't want to work USA, so what? It's only one station and a handful of possible QSO's. Move on to someone else. You aren't going to be able to work ever