As long as you are not taking contest credit for a SSB contact in a CW contest there should not be anything wrong with soliciting contacts on SSB. As long as the actual contact for contest credit is
Whether feminine or masculine, the important thing is that there will be a future for Amateur Radio because of the kids day effort and I, for one, applaud the concept and hope others would get invol
While on the subject, all those hotshots that run 27,000 Q's before giving their own callsign are going to be explaining WKD B4 alot. I have even heard "KM0L sri wkd b4" "We did? Who are u?" "QRZ tes
Fair Radio Sales (419-223-2196) and sometimes Surplus Sales of Nebraska (1-800-244-4567) list surplus electronics transport cases (with or without foam) that can be adapted for use. Surplus Center, (
Actually that was part of the international treaty requirement that gave us the WARC bands in 1979, it was never an option. -73- Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML ARRL First Vice President -- CQ-Contest on WWW
HowardI have a 4 kw Generac that I bought from a hardware store. I could power up half the city with the thing if I wanted, but it is subject to power spikes and misses a lick or two when it gets dam
K4MA & K3CV looking for NAQP SSB Teams to join. e-mail to me direct please. 73, Jim Stevens, K4MA & 8P9JA email -- k4ma@mindspring.com WWW -- http://www.mindspring.com/~k4ma -- CQ-Contest on WWW: htt
Author: Nace_Steve_SC2720@satgate.sat.mot.com (Nace Steve SC2720)
Date: Wed Jan 14 21:55:21 1998
All: I need advice on the preferred method to haul my TS 850 on a trip. Naturally I wish to treat it as a carry-on item. Can I wrap it in protective material without any grief? Also, is it necessary
Thanks for the feedback, Henry! Sorry that you had to find out by bitter experience. I guess there is a reason these cases are surplus... Hope no one took my post as an endorsement of the IBM cases;
Can anyone give me a web address where I can get the latest contest logging shareware? Specifically, I would like to download the latest shareware version of NA for the upcoming Sprints. Thanks to al
What is the collective wisdom of the reflectors concerning decoupling tower mounted antenna-switching relays with RF chokes on the relay coil leads? I am building a relay box to be mounted on my towe
I work for the IBM PC Company, and I'm familiar with (but no expert on) the Microsoft PC Design Guidelines that are issued on a yearly basis. To quickly answer the question, PC98 does not require PCs
BarryChasing mults in a Sprint is a real trick! If I hear a new mult and it is not his freq, I will wait til he is done (or almost done) then go up at least 1 khz and cq. That is how I got VE6EX- not
Sorry for the delay; several people asked that I summarize the answers to my question about whether RF decoupling chokes were necessary or advisable for the relays in a remote (or shack-located) ante
Hi Kelly, I saw that article, too, and in my original inquiry I guess I focussed on the RF aspects. No one replied though that they found chokes necessary for ANY problems. Not to say that the arcin
Hello all, I have a 'loaner' 76A, three holer to be used over the weekend in the contest. It didn't come with any documentation. What does Alpha recommend for grid current for these 3 - 8874 tubes? I
Hello Cesar, I have had good luck with a product called a "Rocket port" by Comtrol. The one I have uses one IRQ to work across 4 additional serial ports. I have had good result with it under Windows
comer. I think George has come up with the perfect solution. Want to give a No-Code licensee full HF privileges? Invite them over to contest at your station! Let them see the fun that upgrading will
Hi MikeLet me wish you guys good luck in the contest. In a multi-op catagory there is no assisted or unassisted. Run packet all weekend- it will add to the fun without changing your catagory. transmi