and I would like to thanks the magic ears and infinite patience of WD5R for picking me out of the wispy either........................ mike w7dra this was a much tougher contest than last year from m
well, sending with a J38, with one hand of the vfo dial to keep it from drifting, i try to at least send his call with 5nn/nr, zone, sect, etc. he sending my call and i sending his is the barest mimi
well, my radio has a dial on it that goes from 0 to 180 somewhere around 10 i stop hearing cw, which means that is the bottom of the band, and around 180 or so can hear ssb, which to me is the top of
interesting. having spend much of my time in competitive swimming and running, the most i ever won was a"survivor" tee shirt; and what i disserve winning this last ARRL160 a "survivor" tee shirt woul
i am authorized to comment on this since i have (and a photo of my shack wall can be produced if requested) a real honest sent by US postage N0TT QSL card....... after i get to the back of the yard i
once upon a time a long time ago i saw somewhere in a magazine or book, or maybe someone told me, or i heard at a ham club meeting or flea market, or i had a dream while in heart surgery, or my wife
Thank you everybody for thinking and commenting about the folded dipole twin lead question. K1FZ thought he remembered it in a "hints and kinks" article, so it probably was not a dream I had in the h
if I may quote eHam..... Dale Hunt: The velocity of typical cheap TV twinlead is usually in the range of 0.8 to 0.85 (and can vary along a single role.) This is important if you are creating a quarte
back before i became a ham i got a hold of a few QSTs that covered the clipperton island dxpidition - using of all things the SX88!! the dream receiver of an 8 year old boy. i just found out the big
not being any sort of DX hunter although i went down and turned on the worm warmer on 160 and gave TX5K one call and worked him, promptly turned off everything and went back to the house. but on 40 m
down the street where i live i have several clandestine copper pipes driven into the ground in neighbor's front yards for "nighttime beverages" and a spool of wire mounted on my bicycle, wound back u
you fellers dont know what to use CAT5 for, out here in the west we use it to tie down our pickup loads.............easy to tie, bends well and is almost indestructible. mike w7dra still using an NC1
why don't we look at a practical antenna for 160 meters? picture a basement with a window at ground level, with a wire going up an outside tree by the house, the length is about 130 feet of wire, and
i have a halfwave long inverted L, and am thinking of instead of feeding it as a high Z endfed, feeding it in the center (at the top of the tree) with low Z balanced line. this will allow me to keep
logging program? same one i started with in 1955. paper and pencil. i went to a ball point pen for several years and found it did not help in upping my rate. this year i am going back to the rig i us
them's a fighten words, still mad at myself for getting rid of the DX100, had to replace it with an ARC5 VFO driving an 833a............ ____________________________________________________________ H
After reading all the contest reflector emails about what is important in contesting to everyone; the main thread that interested me was the one that talked about being excited and having fun. So....
i am planning to do something not useful to anyone, let alone me.............i plan to make a youtube video and post it on W7DRA. i have paralleled my earphones and cut down the sound with three atte
I have been reading with great interest the different forms of person/computer assistance one can expect to get while operating a CW contest. Not wanting to be left out of this fray and realizing fre
I have gone to about 800 with a J38 doing a SOSB40 as ZK1DRA, it is not the sending but just getting tired in general that gets me......... this STEW was awful, i was using a home made key out of a b