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1. [CQ-Contest] Sony TFT LCD Monitor SDM M81 blackened by RFI (score: 1)
Author: barry@mxg.com (Barry Merrill)
Date: Sun Jan 27 14:01:33 2002
In the CQ 160 Test this weekend, I discovered that RFI could blacken the screen of my new "SONY TFT LCD Color Computer Display SDM M81". There were no problem on all other bands, but on 160, where I
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2002-01/msg00586.html (8,003 bytes)

2. Re: [CQ-Contest] The District of Columbia (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 09:04:26 -0500
Ah, but the complainers will become MUTE if DC is accepted as a multiplier in NAQP (which I think it should be)! Barry, W5GN _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-06/msg00009.html (7,434 bytes)

3. RE: [CQ-Contest] World Records and Verticals (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 09:06:58 -0600
But you ain't heard nothing like the pileup with a vertical 4 inches above sea level, at sea, on top of the snorkel mast, "K4CSY, Maritime Mobile, submerged beneath the Atlantic" from the USS TUSK SS
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-01/msg00080.html (9,112 bytes)

4. RE: [CQ-Contest] Re: [RTTY] CW/RTTY QRM Saturday evening (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:35:22 -0600
There certainly was NO problem for NAQP CW on forty last night here in Texas - at most, I heard five or six RTTY in the 7035-7045, and they were well separated, and there were plenty of NA stations r
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-01/msg00134.html (8,718 bytes)

5. RE: [CQ-Contest] K4OJ Remembered (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:52:23 -0600
You make an excellent point: "gamers" are excellent candidates for ham radio contesting, and considering the number of ads aimed at gamers before the Superbowl, they are numerous. Maybe we could set
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-02/msg00325.html (8,656 bytes)

6. RE: [CQ-Contest] Band edge violations (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:28:37 -0600
Has anyone actually received an FCC notification of a violation for operation between 14347 and 14350? Do you really think they care? Who actually has use of the 14350 to 14352 or so frequencies on w
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-03/msg00125.html (9,329 bytes)

7. RE: [CQ-Contest] Elecraft size (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:59:31 -0600
I called ICOM technical support to ask if the IC7800's two receivers could be simultaneously controlled by one knob, for physical diversity reception. Tech support said they would have to get back to
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-03/msg00168.html (9,755 bytes)

8. RE: [CQ-Contest] List of Commonwealth Countries with Prefixed (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:19:36 -0600
Yes, GB5CC only gave me a signal report, not Serial Number. But the rules also state he can't use special callsigns, explicitly stating GB as one that can't be used! 73 Barry, W5GN -- The world's top
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-03/msg00247.html (8,383 bytes)

9. RE: [CQ-Contest] physical antenna diversity reception (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 07:59:12 -0600
Having two receivers with physical separate antennas, so that one rx with one antenna (a beam) pointed at you on the East Coast, and the other rx with a different antenna (a vertical), so I can hear
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-03/msg00346.html (9,071 bytes)

10. RE: [CQ-Contest] GLASSES & HEADPHONES (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:09:37 -0600
The titanium wire rim granny glasses, like my John Lennon's from the 60s, have such a much smaller diameter that I can't feel them under my headphones. Barry, W5GN -- The world's top contesters battl
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-03/msg00415.html (9,184 bytes)

11. RE: [CQ-Contest] Self Spotting (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:59:34 -0600
During the WPX-SSB, I Worked Spots Only, and only non-USA stations to give them the high-point contacts, in the seventeen hours I had to play. At least 100 QSOs of my 700 Qs would never have happened
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-03/msg00560.html (10,934 bytes)

12. RE: [CQ-Contest] Self Spotting (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:01:40 -0600
I'm not penalizing broadcast stations that sit on one frequency making 100 Q's per hour; their year-to-year scoring would not be changed. I'm suggesting that non-CQing stations should receive 2x poin
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-03/msg00563.html (9,026 bytes)

13. RE: Re: [CQ-Contest] Self Spotting (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:46:31 -0600
What utter poppy cock that you just point and shoot spots. Talk to the multi-station operators, i.e., every Multi-Multi, every Multi-Single, and every Multi-2, plus all of the Assisted stations, and
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-04/msg00007.html (10,462 bytes)

14. [CQ-Contest] RE:Dayton Doubletree Rooms available (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 19:40:04 -0500
I have at least one, possibly two rooms, double beds, available Thur-Sat at subject hotel. I'm on the road and won't see email until Wed evening, but email with a phone number and I'll call to confir
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-05/msg00109.html (8,411 bytes)

15. RE: [WriteLog] FW: Orion and Writelog -PROBLEM FIXED: NO RIG butFrequency Can be Sent (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 18:48:13 -0500
I think I've gotten to to bottom of the problems I encountered with rig control, internal keyer, etc, using WriteLog 10.47E and Orion 1.370 Update with Windows XP on the Dell Inspiron: 1. When the CW
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-05/msg00315.html (11,546 bytes)

16. RE: [CQ-Contest] Recruiting women into contesting (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:56:59 -0500
Competition is generally a male attribute. I convinced Judy, KA5PQD, to work a few stations with her (Novice forever) call during Field Day on 10 SSB on Saturday evening. She was not interested in CQ
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-07/msg00172.html (9,367 bytes)

17. RE: [CQ-Contest] Recruiting women into contesting (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:21:24 -0500
I'll add my disgust at U.S. Tower, with their completely-out-of-place have-your-picture-taken-with-a-Playboy-bunny at Dayton this year. Although I'm reasonably happy with my year-old 72 foot crankup
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-08/msg00025.html (9,764 bytes)

18. RE: [CQ-Contest] Re:Packet absurdity (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:00:03 -0600
This SS, I had one station ask to be spotted. I replied that his request put him in the multi operator class, and spotted him, and said in the spot text that the station had requested to be spotted,
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-11/msg00245.html (7,925 bytes)

19. RE: [CQ-Contest] Re:Packet absurdity (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:45:14 -0600
Thanks for the no-self-spotting rule pointer for SS; at the time I couldn't remember if SS explicitly prohibited self spotting or not. But I should have included in my original post that while I had
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-11/msg00268.html (7,953 bytes)

20. RE: [CQ-Contest] SS Phone (score: 1)
Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:09:55 -0600
Thanks to K5ZD's fine work on creating/updating the SS-only call sign Database; starting at mid-morning on Sunday, when I noticed a callsign that was not in the database, I welcomed them to their fir
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-11/msg00587.html (8,240 bytes)


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