<< Part 97 is so EASY to understand: 97.101 General standards (d) No amateur operator shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communication or signal. A CQ is
<< There will always be cheaters, but they are just cheating themselves. >> I respectively disagree. The guy that stays within the letter and spirit of the rules, optimizes his station to conform to
BEFORE attempting to add service wiring to your shack please obtain a copy of the National Electric Code and study the appropriate chapters, or hire a licensed electrician. You are, quite literally,
Seasons greetings, I'll be working in Anchorage from 12/6 to the 9th - (Mon - Thurs) and would sure like to meet some of y'all. If there are any club meetings scheduled during the week I'd really lik
Last year we took the shuttle for the first time. This is THE way to go! Unless you can figure out how to park in the vendor area. However: DO NOT wait till the last minute to leave the Hamvention. Y
Several of y'all had asked me to keep you informed on my TH-7 boom conversion project. Kirk, K4RO, had modified his tribander with an Omega match per N4KG's design and reports not only fine results,
The problem with the pictures not loading has been corrected, they may take a bit of time though... http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/k4bev_boom/k4bevboom.html You may have to do a forced refresh though (Ctrl
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/07/17/sun.burst/index.html Superb photo of a full-halo eruption. May be some comm problems in our near future though. K4BEV -- StripMime Report -- processed MIME pa
While the above is an outstanding idea, the Cabrillo format doesn't include that information. It could, however, be included in the subject line of the log submission, or the format could possibly (?
I looked at a submitted log and didn't see the Claimed Score. It IS there though. SRI, Don - K4BEV -- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts -- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept)
I have a TS-57SDG - The problem Tree mentions is not apparent in this particular radio. Trying to use it in a contest is a challenge, at best. Strong stations do not need to be too close to cause the
I'm surprised that the Kenwood TS-570 isn't being recommended as a portable contesting rig. Is there a reason for this? Additional power supply needed perhaps?? The internal antenna tuner works fine
There is a lingual image trying to transfer the message assisted is history, make only one single op category. Roger that thought! We should have SINGLE op and MULTI op categories. The category now c
Today there is hardly any excuse. Maybe not, but I suffered with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from 15 years of typing computer code - and I'm NOT a female. A shot of Cortisone and a couple of weeks later i
I sent him an e-mail and he confessed that he had a computer crash shortly after our QSO and he lost our QSO plus few more U.S. contacts on 80 in his LOG. Fair to me? Not really. But S!*T happens som
This is no reason to scrap the SO category. As someone pointed out recently, SO Assisted is an oxymoron. 2. Recognise that if not SO, the category must be some flavour of multi-op - and drop the ambi
"Just as you CANNOT take unsolicited info, act upon it and be unassisted." I'm mystified by your conclusion. If you didn't arrange for it, and it is truly unsolicited, how can you be assisted? ** A l
... it is the totally wrong conclusion to jump to. The reason that you see typically lower un-assisted scores at the top is simple. The large percentage of the top operators are NOT using assistance.
As I understood the question, it was how to attract more hams to contesting, not how to attract more people into ham radio. It seems to me that Amateur Radio Contesting is getting to be way more like