I always considered mica caps appropriate for HF! Still use WW-II Dublier ones. DL2NBU was lucky with some old porcelain caps. I know isolation materials improved lately. 73 de Mario, S56A __________
I am well aware of W3NQN long time involvement with filters design. I also studied K4VX and W3LPL solutions. I know top DL7AV HP BPF design. I remember opening ICE filter for the first time and admir
K6LL: My previous posting sure looked ugly. I hope this one comes out better. These were unofficially posted to the WRTC reflector by S56A. These scores were officially published by Thomas Carlsson,
W9WI wrote: I could see disallowing credit for contacts between a HQ station and other stations in the same country *if* the other stations are "uniques", i.e. worked fewer than some threshold number
DF3KV: Even without the 9000 qsos with DL DA0HQ would have beaten LZ0HQ, so there must be something else at LZ0HQ which needs leveling. Well, Peter, 2M Slovenes were close back in 1995 beating SP! Bu
DF3KV: I am sure those probably 1100 German hams did not appear on the bands just to work DA0HQ. N6TR analyses of WRTC logs and DX Cluster spots show strong EU patriotic feelings! Let us make these t
DF3KV: Assume instead working 5000 DLs, 2000? more 3 and 5 point contacts during the same operating time would be of better value ;-) Germany is based in Central Europe very active zone 28 and your a
Sure it is as you average 5 points DX on 20 m with equal number of 1 point DL! Overall DA0HQ average is only 2 points due to zone 28 legacy curse :-) 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU P.S. I'll be with YU6AO m
EA5HQ: Specialy we noted a lack of contacts with EA stations, with only 147 EA QSO. There is a lot of hidden growth potential in here! 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU ________________________________________
EU slice of the HF world is about 10.000 km covering whole USA and Japan. I can happily run parallel with Oceania stations most of the time. Only DX Cluster may show double occupancy. Hamradio freqs
NQ4I wrote: VE7ZO is the primary NQ4I M-M op on 40m...nobody knows 40m like Jim...and his productivity during the night on the low bands is very evident... This is exactly 2 dB advantage I suspected
* WinTest was used exclusively by teams from Europe, and it was the most popular logging program amongst the European teams. Any ideas why it's not more popular outside Europe? Not Invented Here - kn
KR2Q: What exactlyl would be "important" for you non-top-ten types to view in order to make a serious comparison? I am looking for real input, not silly stuff. Present PC technology enables easy digi
K5ZD: I doubt any of us have read all the laws for our town, state, and country, yet we generally "know" what is legal and what is not. I hope we all know that ITU has assigned us a lot of frequencie
I operated CQ WW SSB in 1984 with my own homemade DEC PDP-11 compatible T-11 16-bit, 8 MHz, 64 kB microcomputer using my own software written in Pascal. My system was used by number of S5 hams. K1EA
W2EV: Robot authors, please seriously re-examine the way that QSO: data is parsed. Once upon a time, matematician of internet fame C response was: While ch=' ' do Read(ch); I always believed that QSO
N4ZR: Watching good ops, they seem to have a really special focus that I find hard to maintain, even for a 4-hour sprint. You may maintain focus much longer with very high winning motivation or some
Tono, let me give you some historical HF contesting perspective first. My first PC online contesting operation was in 1984 CQ WW SSB. In two weeks time I'll celebrate 15 years of my PC DSP CW robot m
http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2000-05/msg00108.html As far as I remember, this escalated in your offer of 100$ award to first robot win in major contest. Human mind is always