SS SSB. I worked an S&P station with a 2-land call who gave section WPA. No question he said WPA (unless I was halucinating), and it happens all the time -- many of you worked a 2-land station in New
I already posted this story on the PVRC Reflector during the 'Test, but I wanted to tell it here, too. Working CW in the 10M Contest Sunday morning, doing some S&P. I heard HD2A running, very loud; a
Re: K1TN's post -- I heard the "nornal" echoes from the northeasterly stations (KA1ZD in CT; the loud Europens) Sunday morning. I figured that stations with (big) directive antennas might be getting
About 30 QSOs into my Saturday night start I noticed that the UTC in my computer was off by an hour (probably because I had set it from my about-50-yr-old Numechron, which I likely set wrong after on
I'm just catching up on the Archives. This is a wonderful thread that WM5R started. On Aug 10 W3IDT, Bob, wrote: "At some point in the recent past (1970s?) the "MDC" section - {M)aryland + (D)elaware
I'm jumping in with K0HB here. On the one hand, we are told (at least for CQ WW), to log the call AS IT WAS SENT (excpt for "/QRP"???). OTOH, we are told that it does not matter what we log for the Z
For a year or two I've been gently mentoring two brothers (now ages 14 and 15) in ham radio, getting to the point where at least one of them is studying the License Manual and hoping to get his ticke
Just now, second time in NAQP (only been on for 3 hrs), answer CQ of BIG GUN. No reply. I call again. And again. No replies. OK, he went off to other radio. So I send "NA K3KU" a couple of times. Sec
Rather than filling my Inbox with CQ-Contest e-mail, I read the archives on-line. Hence, my responses always lag. VE4XT had Cc'ed me on his reply to "Enough of this nonsense!!", and I heard at last n
Line ignored. I do not recognize '' as a valid element of the exchange. I have not figured out what the quote mark means, nor do I see it in the log. But I see why the line was ignored -- I forgot to
Catching up on the Reflector Archives after a couple of days. When I saw this "For these contests where there is no assisted category, instead of making yet another category, why not just allow singl
No official position here. Just a long-time SSer and PVRC member, with friends in NCCC. After many years of complaining that "Packet has ruined Ham Radio" (and you can double that for the RBN!), my t
Well, that explains why NCCC did not push SS for 2012, but it does not address if having one (or two) clubs flooding SS makes it less fun for everybody else. But, then again, being an NCCCer, Jeff ca
Bill, An interesting analysis. I'm taking the liberty of including it with my reply here on the CQ-Contest Reflector (even though you sent only to me and NCCC). My impression is that the high partici
Good question re MD and Sprint, Jim, and I don't have an answer. I've not operated Sprint much since i re-activated several years ago. Sprint is usually 2/3 done by my QRV time; my skills were not up
"Once a station is required to QSY, that station is not allowed to make another QSO on the vacated frequency until or unless at least one subsequent QSO is made on a new frequency." This means that y
Look here to see what might be my most recent Sprint experience. http://www.ncjweb.com/cwsprint022003.pdf. However, I am set up -- with a crude logging set-up -- and we'll see what Family Obligations
So K8MR coaxed (embarrassed) me into doing the Sprint. http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2013-01/msg00382.html I recall at least three other MD stations active: N3QE, K3TN, and KE
(This is actually for the Sprint Manager; just posted to CQ-contest for interest; maybe Manager will poist the reply there, too.) I broke a rule. Having solicited and gotten a QSO, I ceded the freq,
1. N3QE said "Of course, to a guy in California, maybe Minnesota is "the East Coast" :-)." Nah. To NCCC, "East Coast" is anything landward of their Club circle. Yes, a gratuitous dig, but I couldn't