http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/health/06glob.html?src=sch&pagewanted=all Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Big Bear Lake, CA _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest
If that is the intent, the contest is ruined. Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, AZ The intent of the current rule is that multi-channel band decoders , such as CW Skimmer, are allowed as long as they do N
Skimmers are not allowed in NAQP Single-op. That is now "settled law." Skimmers are not addressed in the rules for Multi-two, but allowance for their use can be inferred from lack of a ban. Other ARR
The ARRL Considerate Operator's Guide is a useful guideline for everyday casual operating for U.S. hams. Inconveniently, the world happens to be larger than the United States. To get the big picture,
W3LPL recently called my attention to an even more prescient QST article related to computer-aided contesting and CW Skimmer. The title is "The Man Who Broke the Bank," from May of 1953. This is befo
I'll probably draw some flak for this posting from the purists, but here goes. If one is participating in a 48 hour contest, and wants to take a 4 hour snooze, sometimes it is difficult to unwind and
Here's a handy little 3-way 3-wire RCA switch: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250566109775&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT You can make a left/right/split headphone switch by connecting
I'm spending the summer in Big Bear Lake, CA and operated with the local club on Field Day. Our FD location is not very good, so we do a lot of S&P, rather than CQ'ing. This year, I thought it would
What about band data output for driving bpf's, etc? Is there a way to get that out of the radio, or are people using PC LPT band data reliably? Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, AZ I've had the ICOM Pro I
10 at the start, 15 a little later. Keep switching back and forth. Especially check on the hour and half hour in the first 4 hours of the contest. Remember that the mults count on each band, and the
A local ham friend has a pair of ICE 419A filters that he keeps blowing up on 10 and 15 meters. I do the repair job for him. The failures usually happen in the NAQP RTTY, where he is running a full 1
Here's another way to make an so2r audio box. Get one of these: http://tinyurl.com/cubu5vj Left radio audio goes to red/white of input 3 Right radio audio goes to red/white of input 1 Use a wye adapt
Assuming it is not just in the receive line, a bandpass filter may help you keep peace with any neighbors who are on the same band and others in the contest - as it will cut down on any extra "crud"
This has been an interesting thread, helping to focus one's thinking about stubs. So each stub placed after an amplifier serves two purposes: 1. In transmit mode, it reduces harmonics and crud to the
It's the current, not the voltage that causes capacitors in the ICE filters to heat up and change value. The ones that fail are the caps that go to ground on the radio side (not the antenna side) of
Yesterday (email below) I recommended some capacitor replacements for the ICE 419 bandpass filter box. I see that Mouser now carries a decent stock of the CDV16 series of capacitors, which should be
Click on the icon "data sheet." Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Big Bear Lake, California . _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.cont
I will guess that your old drive is IDE and your new drive is SATA. Do you have a computer wonk friend with an IDE motherboard? She could temporarily install your old drive as a second hard drive, an
Don't feel bad. I operated for over an hour overtime, due to a stupid arithmetic mistake in off time calcs. I sent in the whole log. They will use the first 24 hours of on-time and cut it off there w
In the video, Dan is running on both 15 and 20 meters. You can not hear his transmitted sidetone. It is like alternating cq's on each band, with lots of guys coming back, and tail-enders waiting on b