Dave: Yours is a very fair and professional response. I agree that there are more effective and less effective ways to address to ARRL, and you make your point well. The recent letter by Walt Stinson
My sentiments, exactly, Gary! For the record, my biases are similar to yours, Gary--I am also a LM of ARRL since the 60's, active on HF and VHF; CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK31; and have a special interest i
Someone pointed out I didn't give my call. Wasn't trying to be anonymous. de Rol, K3RA -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@conte
Jim: Thank you for anwering my email, and for giving me the chance to be involved in the decision making of the ARRL. I am a strong supporter of the League, and have been for the 44 years I have been
There is no question about it, you can't do it! FD Rule 4.1.1 states "This station may only be operated by Novice/Technician Plus licensees." Oddly enough, I couldn't find any reference in this year'
I suspect Bob is correct about the future. The FD rules have long made an allowance for canadians FD'ers, where there are no novice or tech plus licenses. For VE's, the novice/tech station is to be s
I agree with Neal EXCEPT, once again I must point out that the control operator concept is an FCC rule but we are talking about a more restrictive FD rule set by the FCC (as Bob, N5NJ points out). Th
See my and Bob N5NJ's answers to the no-code, non-licensed operation of the novice/tech plus station--it ain't legal according to the ARRL rules. (Though it would be ok with the FCC, the ARRL does no
That was in reference to an extra running a novices station in the FD as the main station, and clarified the definition of a control operator. It was not in reference to the "free" novice station. Ag
AY-MEN to that, Ty. And you didn't mention the outta nowhere sporadic E openings on 6 meters (better than ten even!) plus the meteor pings that give you one shot at the call and grid--if you are luck
Good idea. As many know, years ago ARRL DID accept DX Contest Logs for DXCC. Wonder why they don't consider accepting computer logs and at least give credit for those that can be confirmed electronic