Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 22:34:55 -0500
Good grief. Are we going to have little games like these on January 1? Most people who have operated multi-ops in the past 10 or so years knows that "in band" means a second radio designed to make QS
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2025 15:21:54 -0400
Was that N0AX or K7SS? I remember K7SS/PTI for a stretch of time. 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contestin
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:15:22 -0400
You definitely dont need a car in Munich. The U-Bahn can get you around most anywhere in the city. 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@cont
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 10:35:14 -0400
Well as you know, not everyone has the same goal (making the "box"). A clean "sweep" is a tangible goal within the contest that seems to carry a fair amount of mystique and side benefits: a mug, a cl
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:32:05 -0500
Sweeps SSB is not immune from declines, but they're not as significant. You can always "walk" somebody through an exchange on SSB. 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Cont
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:57:02 -0500
I remember the days when it was considered risky business to be connected to the Internet during a contest (potential to cheat, peeking at packet, etc). Now we're insisting on it......... 73 Rich NN3
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 14:22:35 -0500
Not too terribly difficult to acquire but not cheap. Extruders hate small diameter product and especially hate closed hollow products because of the die setups. You're going to pay for that with a pr
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:25:35 -0500
I think people are failing to see that holding on to arcane tradition that is Sweepstakes is dooming this contest. You can encourage all the participation you want - frickin' pay people to enter. But
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:28:28 -0500
One other reason: many hams ran separate transmitters and receivers and possibly it would have taken some time to dial up both the receiver and the transmitter to the right frequency? Slower/longer C