Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 04:50:44 -0800
I'm in Toronto, and it looks like I am free for dinner this evening. Any VE3 contesters want to get together tonight? -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.com/ _____
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:23:13 -0700
... I don't think this advice is necessarily warranted. On aggregate, you are no more likely to lose points because of other ops' copying errors than your competition is likely to lose point because
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:22:46 -0700
I'm sure Randy is working a lot of very weak signals at his noise level just like everyone else. That a station in Massachusetts can work more layers deep into the opening is a geographic disparity -
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:40:13 -0700
I have no doubt that the RDXC log checking policies might make you more aware of the need to be accurate, and might as a result change tactical choices one makes in the contest. And I don't know if i
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:53:39 -0700
I disagree. In the past, I have spent painfully long times completing weak, weak QSOs that afterward look like tactical mistakes because if I just called CQ, odds are that I could have made 2 or 3 QS
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:53:50 -0700
As many have pointed out, most contest sponsors are OK with a single-band entry making QSOs on other bands. One behavior that I think would not be acceptable would be to get on a different band and t
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:19:41 -0700
Wikipedia has a concept of Notability. For an article to exist in Wikipedia, there needs to be consensus or evidence that it is about a subject that is notable. An article about my cat would probably
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 10:37:52 -0700
Unfortunately, the ARI web site does not have any information on it at all about emergency communications for earthquake relief: http://www.associazioneradioamatoritaliani.it/ -- Kenneth E. Harker WM
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:32:34 -0700
CQ CQ ... I will be in Chicago (Schaumburg, specifically) tomorrow night (Tuesday, April 21) and would be interested in getting together with any contesters for dinner or drinks after dinner or whate
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 08:10:36 -0700
The most interesting part to me: http://www.wrtc2010.ru/?id=23 WRTC-2010 is for the first time Field Day style competition. All competitors will be located in the same geographical area within 40 x 3
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 07:45:16 -0700
I am going to be in New Brunswick later this month. I'm going to be in the Moncton area most of the time, but plan to visit Fredericton and St. John and hopefully Nova Scotia and PEI at some point. I
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:57:44 -0700
Raj VK4FRAJ has already established his contesting credentials - he holds an Oceania continental record in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest: http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/10-meter-contest-records-dx.
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 18:51:04 -0700
There's a big difference between someone not having a valid license and someone not following a voluntary, regional band plan. Besides, split-frequency QSOs on 40 are going to be much less common fro
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:31:07 -0700
The FCC denies W5FG's petition to sanction the ARRL for promoting the use of a "sham reporting system" based on "wholesale liar's exchanges" in amateur radio contests: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:44:31 -0700
Interestingly, Jack Najork had a letter to the editor published in the January 1941 QST lamenting that his active-duty service in the Navy would prevent him from operating in the next Sweepstakes, a
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:28:43 -0700
Austin Summerfest DX and Contest Forum == The Central Texas DX and Contest Club (CTDXCC) (http://www.ctdxcc.org/) is proud to be the continuing sponsor of the DX and Contest Forum at Austin Summerfes
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:36:24 -0700
Does every contest need an assisted category? Why not operate the contest without packet? Why not change the rules so that multi-ops cannot use packet, either? -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@ken
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:36:21 -0700
Ah - so self-spotting is like putting out deer corn or caged hunting? I get it - something that looks like sport for the non-sportsman. -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.ke