Hi Ulli and folks, We operated PR1T this year. We have spent a little more than the $1500,00 that Ulli mentioned (Iīd say we havent reached the U$5000,00 which I consider pretty modest for a contesti
Hi, I agree that there are already many sub categories, and they are enough. I am not on defense of this. My point is that this is a great hobby for homebrewing and "doing it yourself", and the opera
Author: Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB <felipeceglia2@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:48:43 -0200
Hi Folks, I will make my debut on CQWW 160 this evening, using my own callsign, PY1NB. I havent had the time to finish my waller flag for use on RX, but I will punish my ears trying to copy your sign
Author: Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB <felipeceglia2@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:59:48 -0300
Jim, As a native non-speaker of english, I can say that that theory could be applied to dx and dx-ragchewing. In contests all you could learn is sending numbers, specially 59. In exceptional cases on
Author: Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB <felipeceglia2@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:01:20 -0300
Hi Pete, This is a FB topic, and some reflexion should be made from all of us about it. I remember that in 2008 Contest Dinner someone who was speaking made a joke about the age of the attendants. He
Author: Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB <felipeceglia2@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:46:25 -0200
Hi Tobi, I havent used this much, as I havent found an easy way to hook an sdr to my FT1000 and MkV IF. I have used it a little bit to check 10m openings, and plan to use it as well on 2m contests. A
Author: Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB <felipeceglia2@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:00:02 -0200
Hello, Sorry for the slight off topic, but I am willing to take a look at K3 kits' pictures. If you have them, could you send me them directly? 73 -- Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB -- PR1T team member /// Rio
Author: Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB <felipeceglia2@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:20:35 -0200
Thanks for all you who sent pictures of the kit! 73, Felipe -- Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB -- PR1T team member /// Rio DX Group member /// Araucaria DX Group member http://www.dxwatch.com /// http://revers
Author: Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB <felipeceglia2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:12:31 -0300
Ahem, As webmaster of a webcluster site(www.dxwatch.com), I take my word. In my webcluster I implemented a simple user/password scheme that is in fact much more secure than the vast majority of telne
Hi, Here in the jungle (Brazil), its pretty difficult to exchange IRCs. Only a few post offices in main cities do that, only them sell it as well, at abusive prices. Guys in local offices usually hav
Hi, I have recently made some statistics tools on www.dxwatch.com using dx cluster network data: http://www.dxwatch.com/statistics/top_spots.php - top spots per band / continent http://www.dxwatch.co
Author: PY1NB - Felipe Ceglia <felipeceglia2@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 08:58:55 -0300
Hi Gerry, You raised an interesting topic: I have always wondered why getscores seems to be so impopular among contesters, specially in the US. - is it difficult to post scores? - is hiding the opera
Author: PY1NB - Felipe Ceglia <felipeceglia2@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 12:20:07 -0300
Hi Gerry, Iīve been using getscores for long now, and we at Rio DX Group encourage people to do so. I think it adds extra fun to contesting, both from a competitorīs point of view and from outside as
Author: PY1NB - Felipe Ceglia <felipeceglia2@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:27:54 -0200
Hi Carol, For DX usage, a good option is a vertically mounted (base of the triangle parallel to ground), vertically polarized delta loop. The best feeding position is 1/4 wave from top to bottom, usi
Author: PY1NB - Felipe Ceglia <felipeceglia2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:30:41 -0300
Hi, I have a two bed room booked at Dayton Grand Hotel (ex doubletree), downtown, which I can share with a non smoker ham who doesn't snore too loud. The room is booked from tuesday till sunday. For
Author: PY1NB - Felipe Ceglia <felipeceglia2@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:13:53 -0300
Hi folks, Rectifying my last post. This room reservation is for arriving at wednesday and leaving on sunday. Emails off list, please. 73, Felipe - PY1NB Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB -- PR1T team member ///
Author: PY1NB - Felipe Ceglia <felipeceglia2@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 20:23:09 +0000
Hello folks, Sorry abou the off topic, but if I can find any help, it will probably be among you fellow contesters. I am trying to help PY1NX to fix his Microham's MK2R+, which is erratically turning