Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:52:46 -0700
Speaking of radiosport... I was a competitor at the IARU Region II ARDF Championships held a couple of weeks ago in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It involved two days of competition in the woods of the mo
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:07:21 -0700
Not really. My point is, where the cost incurred per participant is significant, an entry fee makes sense, but where the cost incurred per participant is small, the entry fee may do more harm than go
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 07:29:47 -0700
On Saturday in the NAQP, I spent at least two hours CQing on 14.260 MHz. A little after 0130 UTC, someone came on frequency and "informed" me that I was operating on the IOTA frequency, and that I wa
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:13:03 -0700
W5WMU is in Lafayette, LA, which is about halfway between New Orleans and the Texas border, quite a ways to the west of the storm center. WQ5L is in Gulfport, MS, which was pretty much directly in th
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:32:15 -0700
HG2004HUN submitted logs in the M/M category of the 2004 JARL All Asian DX Contest, both CW and Phone. -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.com/ ____________________
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:18:12 -0700
This is a good point. I've operated at several huge stations in W5 that did not have Internet access. For example, the W5KFT ranch station - a five tower HF and VHF/UHF contest station on a 2200 acre
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:01:35 -0700
Mal never said that he could or would conclude that any particular station was cheating. He merely said that the number of stations submitting logs as unassisted who worked him during periods immedia
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:49:00 -0700
One of the most popular contests on 160 meters uses grid locators: http://jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.com/ ________________________
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:18:07 -0700
The ARRL and CQ are already sponsoring as many contests as I think they are willing to support with magazine space. The Tesla Cup would be just another HF DX contest, and one that wouldn't necessaril
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:03:07 -0700
If another competitive stations listens to this audio stream during the contest, and they happen to be more than 500 meters away from station K5ZD, they are violating the CQWW rules' ban on the use o
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:25:51 -0700
This very topic came up recently on the CTDXCC reflector. As someone whose been licensed for 12 years but is still only 33, here's my perspective. Let's say hams die off at an average age of 80. If t
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:51:40 -0700
That's not how I see this being useful to another station. I can easily imagine a multiop in Virginia or Illinois or Florida or someplace having an "Internet" station where an op not on the air could
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:44:39 -0700
Let's say that there is an ethical way for a remote receiver to be used. Perhaps the utility of this kind of remote receiver for gaining an unfair competitive advantage is so low that its use for ent
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:37:00 -0800
I've done a lot of phone contests over the years, and I think it's good that there are several phonetics for each letter of the alphabet - especially in DX contests where the range of possible accent
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:37:18 -0800
(a) The reason that the packet cluster system exists is not to support DXing rare stations - it was an invention that the YCCC used to improve their contest scores by making sure that each YCCC stati
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 07:31:27 -0800
If a station isn't identifying, it's almost always to your advantage as a caller to simply call them and ask for their callsign when you get through. If you don't get through, you're no worse off tha
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 07:04:24 -0800
http://www.eham.net/reviews/products/39 The Unifed Microsystems VK-64, Super Combo Keyer II, and MFJ-434 would meet your needs. -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:11:29 -0800
That's one possible explanation. There could be others. I once operated a contest where one of my radios was mostly deaf on 15 meters, and almost completely deaf on 10 meters, but perfectly normal on
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:27:15 -0800
I'm going to be in Atlanta on business next week and presently have no plans for Monday night, November 28. Any contesters want to get together for dinner or something? I will be staying near the Per
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:46:04 -0800
The University of Texas has produced several well-known contesters, including two editors of the _NCJ_, and (we think) more WRTC contestants than any other college or university in the United States: