Author: Larry Makoski W2LJ <Makos327@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:07:42 -0400
Wow! What a weekend coming up! We have the QRP-ARCI Memorial Sprint, the Bubba Summer QRP Sprint, the NJ QSO Party as well as the NAQP/SSB. And then to round things off, this Sunday evening, the Flyi
For those of you using the NA logging program, you solve the same call, multi county operation by typing "Options" in the callsign field and electing the first option: QTH must match. This is the sam
Author: Larry Makoski W2LJ <Makos327@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:47:11 -0400
This Sunday evening, the Flying Pigs Amateur Radio Club International will be holding its monthly Run For The Bacon. This is a friendly, two hour QRP CW Sprint, which is open to ALL radio amateurs, w
Sorry to disagree with my M/M host, but I feel strongly that all the US stations who work us deserve to be in the log. We have no way of knowing who needs us for zone credit. At least from the 15 met
Working out-of-the band DX stations on SSB in DX Contests isn't a new phenomenon. When I heard about it this weekend, at first I thought maybe it was people who heard about the new 80 meter SSB frequ
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:27:20 -0500
No, the check didn't come from the birthday. The exchange was longer then. It included a date and time at one time. Then just a date. And toward the end of that requirment, the date was the month and
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:19:58 -0500
I hope stations in NAQP will continue to operate at least some above 3800, so the General class hams won't be left out entirely. Thanks for thinking of us. 73, John, K4BAI. __________________________
I don't think QST ever had a contesting column. It has (and still has) a contest corral. At one time, the contest corral gave synopses of contest rules, but it no longer does that. It never contained
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:08:29 -0400
The weekend of April 14 and 15 will bring the annual Georgia QSO Party. Georgia has more counties than any other state except Texas. 159 counties. Most, if not all, will be QRV in this year's event.
To supplement my earlier message about the 2007 Georgia QSO Party on April 14 and 15, here is a link to the GQP webpage: http://gqp.contesting.com/ 73, John, K4BAI. __________________________________
Doesn't seem to fit with my experience. I have done CQ WW CW single op many times since 1985 with no sleep during the contest. Since the contest generally starts at 8 PM Caribbean time and I find it
Georgia QSO Party is this weekend, April 14 and 15. All information can be found at: http://gqp.contesting.com. New Georgia agricultural product prizes are to be awarded for the out-of-state stations
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:01:46 -0400
Does anyone have a good address for submission of CQ-M contest logs this year? The rules on the website are for 2006. WA7BNM says to use the same address as last year, ua0agi@andys.ru, but I got a "p
In NAQP and NA Sprint, North American DX entities count as multipliers. I can't imagine that 4U1UN would not be a multiplier, same as XE, YS, KP4, etc. 73, John, K4BAI. ______________________________
I find the letter O acceptable for zero if the signal is loud. If the signal is weak, I am worried whether I missed two dits in a 2 or an 8. Since we can't know for sure if we are loud or not, I sugg
The exchange in CD parties did not contain a serial number. Just appointment (ORS, OO, etc) and ARRL section. Steve must have been thinking of California QSO party or more likely ARRL SS. 73, John, K
Dave: Your explanation may be reasonable until you consider that for CQ WW DX and ARRL DX, at least, you can count an expedition to another part of the world as part of your club aggregate score. Whe
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:19:45 -0400
The final death of "real" signal reports in contests is, in my opinion, due to the very popular early contest logging programs that had no provision to record a sent RST other than "599." Both NA and
To all FISTS members and others who might join in the FISTS Summer Sprint. The time and date have been changed. It will be Friday, July 13 from 8 PM to 12 midnight EDT, 7 to 11 PM, CDT, and Saturday,
I am betraying my age now, but at least into the early 1970s, the late W4ML issued a "599 Certificate" to any ham who could prove receipt of a "599" signal report from each of the six continents. I h