John, Thanks for sharing this. What terrible news. I am sure like many people, we worked Paul this weekend in SS CW. Paul was one of my inspirations in contesting. Always the energizer bunny. Always
Thanks for forwarding this Dave and kudos to K1IR (Jim) for doing the talk and making it available. While the discussion in the later portion about the right way to take down a tower was really good,
I think that issue is that the discussion Jim had did not get to the true root cause analysis in all cases. HE did speak about temporary guying below the work on a tower and doing the "off the tower"
I have not heard the exact circumstances of W0AIHs accident. What was quickly published was his fall arrest system failed. He was clearly using a harness. If some has the details, I think we would al
Jim, Thank you very much for these details. They are very important for people using man lifts to climb towers. Clearly, you cant man lift and not be connected to the lift. And you cant be connected
Jim, Also with all due respect, these are all very serious issues that have nothing to do with body harnesses and free climbing. Failure analysis deals with the direct cause. Issue one - dont be on a
Hello Kevan. Thanks for your comments. To be clear, the items I discussed were not "brought up by me". They were items mentioned by N3BB that I stated were not at all related to the "safety improveme
They are the same thing. However, dont assume that someone wearing a nice full body harness has captured the safest process while "transitioning". It can actually be more complicated and gymnastic to
As these figures suggest, I have seen no impact on HF Contest participation as a result of FT8. Its changed VHF contesting but thats easily changed if the VHF Contesting community wants to do it. The
The "no dupes" came from the fact that it was very difficult to weed the dupes out of the logs back before computerized logging. So "loading up on dupes" was a way of "padding the log" and was penali
The issue was if you missed it as a dupe, it got credited as another Q. And we all missed recognizing some back then. Ed --Original Message-- From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces+edwards=sbele
Sorry Jim. Its no one's responsibility to pull a small signal out of the mud. If you want to be heard, or anyone else wants to be heard, and having difficulty, improve your signal. On the otherhand,
New England is not advantaged in SS though. Hardly any top 10 finishes come out of W1. This is all about people needing to "feel the rush" of the clean sweep. A SS tradition. Has nothing to do with a
With the results in, I am curious as to the answer to this question. With 30 - 40 an hour rates over 24 hours and just looking at a computer screen and clicking mouses, was it fun? Ed N1UR --Original
Hello David. Froom everything observed in real practice with the typically unsophisticated masses of FT8 users, its dreaming to think that such rates will ever be achieved. All current data points to
Stanley. Thanks for this detailed explanation. I agree that Digital running, whether its RTTY or FT-X, just consisting of mouse clicking while watching a screen sounds pretty boring. Interestingly, n
Isn't the basic problem that the computer is running the show? On both ends. And the operator really is helpless to change that? It's a very basic statement about what is really happening with this m
Respectfully, one contest does not "a growing segment of contesting" make. Lets see what the trend line is after 2 or 3 years to proclaim it's a growing segment. The DX side is inarguable. The contes
Tim, It sounds to me like when there is a disagreement, the computer wins. So we may not be able to blame the computer, but we all know who the boss is with FT-X. 73 Ed N1UR Ed N1UR asks: I'm not sur
Actually, I completely disagree. When I am running stations on CW or SSB, I am listening to the station I hear and typing in what I hear. Yes, I see on the screen the SCP suggestions as well as any a