My first non-novice SS was about a year later (1974). Rig was SB-401 and SB-303. Still have them. They need work. I would have been on as either WA4FIB/5 or WB5KQJ from Louisiana. I remember making g
But Tree, why is it bad? The QSOs still have to be made. The exchanges have to be sent and received correctly. Just because one's friends get on to give him, but no one else, a QSO, doesn't necessari
I am in complete agreement with this. When I work a rag-chewer in a contest, I do it for the QSO points. But I work few of these, certainly not 10% of my QSO total. Like tree, I would be very suspici
I agree with KD4D on this one. If such a rule were put into place I certainly would not go after rag-chewers. It would simply be a waste of time and end up hurting my total. It's a shame, too. I've m
As another one who swears by his crud-o-ject, I have one question. Are the 88mH telephone inductors still available anywhere? Don't need any, just curious... -Jack Brindle, W6FB == __________________
Yeah, but you don't have to compete with the big boys who are out for blood. Well, at least until Tree comes along and pulls another QRP SS on us... ;-) - Jack Brindle, W6FB -- -- ___________________
This has been done for iCal, the Apple calendar system. Mac / iCal users can just subscribe to the calendar and it shows up on the screen with periodic updates. The downside is that you need someone
Guys, it could be worse. K1TN might remember a cute young redhead who worked for Jeanne DeMaw back in the fall of 1976, checking WAS submissions. At the time I was a lab tech and Jim was the contest
This _seems_ to be one of the things that the top contesters have forgotten, that there are many of us who can't compete at the top level. We then will pick our own competition, targets and goals wit
Yes, but send it in anyway. As others will surely tell you, they will get dinged whether you send it in or not. The scoring software builds a database of what everyone sent, and uses the predominate
Actually, the SWR bridge would need to be on the output of each amplifier. The TX should see a relatively flat, very good SWR looking into each amplifier. It is the antenna impedance that will vary,
Outlook didn't like it, complaining that the file was "corrupt or damaged." It might be a line-ending problem. When I have time I'll investigate further... - Jack Brindle, W6FB -- -- ________________
Interesting. The expanded phone bands do not exist yet. The FCC's report and order has yet to be published in the Federal Register. I suggest that US hams stay above the current phone band cutoff fre
Mal; Simply put, you don't. Changing in the middle would invalidate all of your previous QSOs in the other guy's logs, making them more than a bit upset. If you really want to do that, you need to us
Sorry. We have physical evidence that is not true. Tree and I have discussed at least one occurrence of this from Phone SS a few years back where 20 ops got 'dinged' when the station they contacted c
Mal's information is right on this one. The information has not been published in the Federal Register (which is available on-line). Apparently the FCC needs to reword or rethink some of the things i
Locust et al; Would we then require all contestants to have their log computers connected to WWV / NIST (or a central contest-sponsor-provided time server) in order to constantly update and/or correc
AHA, so THIS is what Assisted is really all about... Or is it contesting on the internet without radios. No thanks, I far prefer using my radio and contesting skills. (This coming from a contester wh
The Cabrillo format is very well defined as a protocol. The problem is that there is now a blank field in the Stew Perry data where one used to be. By parsing for blanks, the parser fails. By parsing