Some opinions from my experience: 1. Documentation is important. This includes cable labeling and a description of the station cabling systems. 2. Label both ends of the cable. I found it useful to i
R3/K3NA... operating from my 6th floor apartment 1km south of the Kremlin in downtown Moscow. Thanks to everyone who figured out my odd callsign! See below for a discussion whose length is disproport
Hi -- Any contesters in Bukhara Uzbekistan? I will be visiting during Mar 8-11... maybe we can meet?! -- Eric R3/K3NA -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative req
Hi -- Anyone got a spare bed or room in the "contester suites hotel" that I could take? Thanks. -- Eric R3/K3NA -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests:
Any contesters in Antalya Turkey? I'll be in town Apr 2-8... -- Eric R3/K3NA .................... PGP fingerprint: F40B A402 795B 3F52 43B0 47B4 3576 BA88 3A34 5058 -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists
Interesting: The Contest Forum and the Antenna Forum at Dayton are BOTH on Saturday between 2 and 5pm... one in Room 1 and the other in Room 4. That will be a challenge, even for SO2R operators. -- E
Hello -- The father of a friend of mine from work died earlier this year. He and his father both were occasional hams and electronic hobbyists. The estate includes a large heap of parts, old meters i
Are there any Win32 pileup/contest trainers like PED? Reply direct to me and I will summarize to the reflector. -- Eric K3NA eric@k3na.org -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/
Two weeks I inquired about Windows-based pileup trainers. Here's a summary of responses to date: 1) PileUp! Written by G4ZFE. Available at http://www.babbage.demon.co.uk/pileup.html. Works under Wind
I have done this for several contests. There are two basic solutions: a) Use two computers: one for logging and one to control the Kachina. This is preferred as it eliminates the need to change windo
Two laptops were used. Understand. Where do you put the two monitors? What kind and size are they? Guy. solutions: Kachina. This is preferred as it eliminates the need to change window operation. Fur
Possibly a solar-powered battery charger? Never at night, and never during rain. When the sun comes out, the battery is being topped off... and thereafter it's on trickle-charge. Any place in that di
I operated as W1FJ. Upon my request, K1TTT gave me the spots generating by the W1FJ station. I spotted 8 DX stations on 7038 QSX 7154 between Mar 4/0753-0807z... and three at 0920z. This occurred bec
1967 November 18-20 Sweepstakes CW: crystal controlled on either 7180 or 7196 kHz. (15 years old - didn't have much money for radio.) 60 W to a too-short dipole. (Didn't know much about antennas.) Ha
Thanks for polling the contesting community before taking a decision on whether to classify the use of real-time scoreboards as "outside assistance" for single ops. Having used the real time scoreboa
Hi Jim et al -- Zones (either CQ or IARU) are not particularly geographically compact nor equivalent in size. A UA3A experiences vastly different propagation than a UT5, for instance. I would suggest
Please -- no more 5NN fake RSTs in the exchange! Just "EM00 1243" should be an adequate exchange to demonstrate a contact occurred, and to help in log checking. The "field" part of a grid square -- t
I almost never let the pile-up call again without making a transmission. One wants the pile-up to develop a rhythm... to know that you will make SOME kind of transmission after the first 3 seconds. T
One can now submit print jobs to Kinkos on-line. See www.fedex.com for a tool that, when installed, looks like a printer on your system. It's one approach to printing a card with the QSO/address/rout
Some of the notes in this thread have discussed ways to make one's physical environment "correct" for the operator -- correct in the sense that it is no longer a distraction from what's happening on