A tried and proved suggestion when that repeatedly being beaten out by another station also moving up the band in the scenario that W5OV sets forth is to move to the top of activity and move down the
Yes. In Thursday night's practice, at least three stations had very bad CW notes. One cleaned his up immediately after I told him about it. The other two, unfortunately, were S&P and I never got a ch
Mal: What they are talking about is that they had relied on the logging program to pick up their call and put it in the CW message to be sent by the computer for the exchange. They didn't listen to w
Hans: Unfortunately for me, VY1EI didn't call me. However, if you will read his post on SS CW to the 3830 reflector, he indicates that he made quite a number of S&P QSOs, mostly on 20M I think. So, d
It has already been done, although not from different countries, in CQ 160 CW. One year KH6DX/M signed SD/ND as his multiplier. I imagine that Dave, K4JRB, could address how he handled that, but I kn
Bob, W7GG, and his wife very kindly took me and my wife (and I think also WA4ILO) to dinner one night when we were at a judges' educational conference in Portland. On the same trip, Tree took time ou
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:45:09 -0500
What the guys who leave out their call in the exchange don't seem to realize that it is a wonderful type of advertising for new QSOs. It's at least as good as a CQ SS. Several guys who weren't giving
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:41:04 -0500
For WT6G and others who may agree, may I suggest the Straight Key Century Club's weekend Sprintathon Sunday? No requirement that you use paper for logging, but you must use a hand key or bug. No comp
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:58:09 -0500
Felipe: Yes, we had a four-land QSO party for years. I participated. The sponsor W4OMW/K4EG participated. Almost no one else participated. I doubt it would be more popular now than it was then. It ha
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:20:00 -0500
It often causes unexpected tension when a judge received an unexpected box. There is always concern that it might be a pipe bomb. While in QSO with Pete, W1RM, this afternoon, my XYL came in and said
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:58:41 -0500
And "V" is not an acceptable cut number for "4" anyway. 4 like 6 has no acceptable cut number. The worst one I have encountered is often found by primarily European stations who send "J" instead of "
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:40:27 -0500
I appreciate the NCDXF beacons. But those HP beacons on 18 and 30 meters, particularly on 30M, surely do QRM a lot of QSOs. The 30M beacon from HP1AVS is in a very popular part of the band for QSOs o
I agree that there were fewer DX stations CQing below 7040 this contest. Of course, there were many working simplex between 7125 and 7200. But, there is still underutilization of the frequencies betw
As far as I am aware, all the major contests encourage single band entrants to log everyone they work on another band for logchecking purposes, but the logchecking software only credits contacts made
You might want to ask the Scandinavians about rotating sponsorships. The national associations of the Scandinavian countries rotate sponsorships of the SAC contests each September. It has often been
Dana: I think the multi-single rule is essentially the same in CQ WPX as is the rule for CQ WW. You can have another transmitter which can work only multipliers on another band from the "run" station
Wait a minute! All the logging programs I am familiar with log the frequency of the receiver at the time that the "enter" command is given. Or maybe more accurately, it records the frequency of the m
A few "serious contesters" have been, for one reason or another, unable to pass the Extra class exams, even with no code requirement. Some of you may remember that, after incentive licensing, the fam
Hello all: This is a reminder that this weekend will be the Georgia QSO Party, April 11 and 12. Georgia has the second highest number of counties in all the states with 159 counties (TX has 254). The
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:44:10 -0400
Hello all: Less than 30 hours until the annual GA QSO Party. Saturday 18Z to Sunday 04Z and Sunday 14Z to 24Z. We have commitments to activate all 159 counties this year, after missing only one count