This Sprint was a personal best for me both for Qs and Mults (and, of course, total score), but it also was the most frustrating Sprint ever. I felt like I was beating my head against the wall, makin
CW Sprinters, I haven't heard or worked Arkansas in the last three Sprints. Has this become a needed section? If so, I can drive about six hours and operate from my van in AR for the fall Sprint. You
Marco, The slopers could be causing the problem! A very simple fix would be to bypass all wires in the control cable to ground with a disc capacitor right at the point they are attached to the rotor.
Although I only had a limited amount of time to participate this weekend, I really enjoyed the QSOs with the FOC members. The name captures it all, these guys have a lot of class, not to mention cour
Time for another installment of Contesting on a Budget! Thanks in advance for your inputs, look forwarding to hearing from you. Topic for the Mar-Apr NCJ: Information Management. Contesting is becomi
It took me about 30 seconds to create this disk using the Roxio CD creator. Works great! It is much faster than waiting on a diskette to boot. Paul Schaffenberger, K5AF ______________________________
I've missed several Winter CW Sprints due to conflicts with Valentine's Day. As a musician, the Saturday prior to Valentine's Day is often the night when the event is celebrated. This year, there was
Just tossing out an idea - and I couldn't care either way. How about Phone Sprint on Saturday 0000-0400 and CW Sprint on Sunday 0000-0400. I've suggested that for CW, but those who travel to guest op
I agree with those that say that the Sprint is the best four hours in ham radio. I'd like to see more Sprint-styled venues. Here are a few suggestions: High Band Sprint: Same format as the regular Sp
First, for working stateside, the propagation on the high bands favors the west coast, Texas, and areas of the central plains and W4. And while you could say that DX contest propagation favors the ea
thought that there must be a purpose in order for us to take the time to communicate. Shooting the bull, exchanging reports, rigs, weather, etc can get old after awhile. For most of us this amounts t
Lee, I basically agree with your proposal, but I also think that we might consider setting up "monitor frequencies" for each band. These would be frequencies where we could listen for or call CQ to i
If it gets us to quarterly CW sprints, I would be happy to do the CW Sprint logs. --Best I understand, we still need dates ? --Also, any consensus in making the power level 100w in the two 'new' spri
This one almost got away on me! Here is the topic: Topic for May-June: A Cheap High Getting Antennas Up Without Busting Your Budget: What do you do physically or electrically to get your antennas hig
Thanks to all who have contributed to the column. I am preparing two columns for the next two issues and am anticipating a very insightful guest column from a well-known European DXer, but also want
Jeff, While we're at it. let's consider a Sunday night or week night? Paul K5AF -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! THE OFFICIAL FILM of WRTC 2002 now on professional DVD and VHS!
My Input: Quarterly Sprint, two on Saturday night, two on Sunday night. Paul K5AF -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! THE OFFICIAL FILM of WRTC 2002 now on professional DVD and VH
Gang, I think this idea has been floated before, but part of the problem of a busy contest calendar is the number of state QSO parties. Perhaps combining these into regional contests with separate sc
To all: One of the unexpected benefits of ending the Cold War has been the availability of parts, particularly RF parts and tubes, from former Soviet Union countries. For the next "Contesting on a Bu
I'm still trying to sort out all my feelings regarding this sad loss to the contesting community. I met Bill a few years ago, and spend a couple of days with him at K5RC's QTH. Since then, I'd had nu