I have a much better set of phonetics, with a proven record of getting through with poor SNRs and heavy QRM, and readily idenitifiable to most contesters regardless of native language or accent. It g
Russian DX is a great contest and becoming bigger and better every year; IOTA and IARU are also 24 hour only events and both attract plenty of activity. I realise that the first two of these clearly
If you visit at UX5UO's site - http://www.ux5uoqsl.com/business-n-luxury-en.html - you'll find a few that come pretty close (UT5JAJ). There was also an SP8FUX who was quite active at one time... 73 G
About 3 o'clock on Sunday, 15 suddenly opens in a big way to the States having been really poor all weekend. I reckon I can probably pile them in as fast sweeping through the dozens of unworked, gorg
Er... not quite. They were readily workable at *1* point each. That's a big difference. Only North America benefits from the 2-point intra-continental rule. [Warning: Long rant follows] I can underst
This has generated surprisingly little comment, I suppose us equipmentally challenged, but serious, contesters are few and far between? Probably the majority of amateurs are restricted, whether becau
You don't calculate them or take them into account at all - too difficult to calculate, most of the calculations you see quoted for them are about as true to life as a Tom Clancy novel. 73 Gerry G0RT
I don't think it's necessarily anything to do with either. I was thinking more of people who simply can't get anything more than wires/verticals up; that doesn't have anything to do with experience a
Yes, but you don't live in Serbia, Pete. 3.60 x 40 hours a week x 50 weeks a year = US$7700 which is a bloody good wage in many parts of the world. Hell, my gap year job in GI (and we're talking less
Surely that's compulsory for *really serious* Poisson d'Avril entrants? 73 Gerry G0RTN Vanity Page at http://www.gerrylynch.co.uk "In days of old, when ops were bold, and sidebands not invented, The
I finished CQWWCW last year CQing on 7.099 and it worked fine for me. Wait until the next minimum when the allocations are settled, and we'll see plenty of people CQing a little above 7.100 in CQWW C
Using 6 character grids you could move to a point per kilometre scoring system as is the case in VHF contests in Europe. That's a tough enough exchange to begin with, but you could add a serial numbe
In CQWW SSB, I love nothing more than sitting on all that empty space between 7.040 and 7.065 and working DLs for two points a go. It's great. 73 Gerry G0RTN Vanity Page at http://www.gerrylynch.co.u
Pointless argument on the CQ-Contest reflector, No. 1: we are all geriatrics and amateur radio in general, and contesting in particlar, is dying. Pointless argument on the CQ-Contest reflector, No. 2
In 2005 I went low power assisted in WPX CW - came 3rd in Europe and 4th in the World with just a 42 metre long doublet (admittedly having my local club's contest call of M2W - a unique prefix - help
I loved hearing my "hit every button but the one that sends my callsign" mistake on 15 in CQWW CW last year via your recording - seriously. I get a chuckle every time I listen to the .wmv file. I als
I had a real problem with all those Sweepstakes CW operators. I was looking for a few quiet ragchews on 40 metres on Sunday night before starting another busy working week. But I couldn't because the
The only serious opening from here in ARRL 10 this year started around 1600 on Saturday (just after sunset) and lasted until well after 2000 with sustained Es to Italy and the Balkans. The period aft
None of you have a chance of beating IT9RYH in this one. 73 Gerry G0RTN http://www.gerrylynch.co.uk "In days of old, when ops were bold and sidebands not invented The word would pass by pounding bras
That was a long time ago. Since then activity from Japan has dropped precipitously and activity in Europe has increased dramatically as well. The sheer QSO volume, especially on the low bands, in Eur