Looks like I have to be in ZS-land the week after the ARRL DX CW contest. Anyone know of any multis looking for operators or any single op stations I could operate from for that weekend (Feb 16/17)?
I just got back on the air in January, so all my data is for the past two months. About 50% of the contacts are casual DXing, the other half from part time efforts in the various NA and DX contests s
It's not just the bad spots. It's the cheerleading, self-spotting, etc. It's the use of spots to talk to one other connected ham (to extend the email analogy, this is like reply all in email when you
I got back on the air on January 1 2009 and have made and dumped about 1,600 QSOs into both eQSL and LoTW. If I look at my potential award levels just on those QSO's here's what I see: eQSL: 41 state
I remember in the early 90's when George (WB5VZL at the time) and I (WB2EKK at the time) kept lists of contester email addresses and then Trey (WN4KKN at the time) started up CQ-CONTEST (@tgv.com at
How about the evolution of multiplier spotting assistance? When I operated at W3LPL back in the late 80s/early 90s it went from: Someone monitoring the 2m callout frequency (both locally and another
Someone already gave you the higher is better and "if money is no object" pointers. If money *is* an object, another way to go is the 600w MFJ/Ameritron ALS-600 and the 600w MFJ autotuner. You lose 3
QUR? - Will you be giving out your callsign in the next 20 minutes or so, or do I have time to get a cup of coffee and a bagel? QUR - You can probably grind the coffee and hand roll the dough and boi
Since it is *not* a required part of the exchange in SS, I only send the CQers callsign back when I think there may be some doubt in who I'm sending to. Several times when S&Ping on 20 there were mul
Years ago I had written an article on Sweepstakes and I managed to scan the text in and updated it a bit, in line with the thread here on SS Musings. I put the write up in the Contesting Wiki Sweepst
I think it is more "etiquette" vs. rules - there are lots of things that aren't illegal or even unethical, but are just rude. I updated the Contest Wiki section on "Sweepstakes Etiquette" at http://w
I got my novice call WN2ADH as a 12 year-old in1969 and hated ending in dits. But, it never occurred to me to change my call - it was like my name. But when I passed the General in 1970, I forgot to
I remember operating 40 or 80 overnight at W3LPL in the 86/87 timeframe, when being near the bottom of the cycle meant 20 and 15 shut down completely at night. On the second night, I'd been running o
CW contesting is mostly typing these days. Kids communicate mostly via typing text messages, vs. speaking, these days. Today's kids who become tomorrow's contesters will like to type, vs. speak, in c
I need a big, RF-sensing, blinking "ON AIR" sign I think. Actually, turning the K3 WIDTH knob (compared with 19 years of sequentially punching the TS-850's dopey 1st IF/2nd IF filter cycling buttons)
I have to be in the Palmdale/Los Angeles area for meetings all day Monday and was going to fly out Sunday. However, the weather pundits are now forecasting a big snow storm to hit the DC area Friday
When I first moved to Maryland in the late 70s, in Sweepstakes I had to send WB2EKK/3. While I was sending one CQ, KN5H would work three stations... John K3TN (ex-WB2EKK/3) John Geiger wrote:> Heck,
K1TTT said: "Same answer to all 3... the existing software and network implementation won't handle it. Remember, the existing network was derived from the rf packetcluster network where by law encryp
K1TTT said "There are several of them around already. Some clubs have limited access to some of their nodes and implemented their own filtering. That does not solve the packet pileup or enable statio
I bought a TS-850 new in 1991 and it was my only HF rig since then until I bought a K3 in January of this year. The 850 spent many years at W3LPL doing multi-multi duty, as well as being dragged on m