I'm replying to this on DX-CHAT.
A lot of those excellent ops are no longer with us. For whatever else he
got involved in, Don Miller was one of the best CW ops ever and could sit
there and churn out QSO's as you describe. So could Danny Weil, the
Colvins, Ron ZL1AMO, Rudi DJ5CQ, G3SWH, Baldur
Yes, as of Jan. 27.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Crownhaven crownha...@bellsouth.netwrote:
Did the price of an envelope to a foreign country just go up to $1.10 by
chance?
Steve, N4JQQ
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I worked them several times. I believe it was a club station.
73, Zack W9SZ
On 1/27/13, Crownhaven crownha...@bellsouth.net wrote:
I have a QSO in my log for this station on 27 Feb 1993, 10 meters. I
just noticed I don't have S0 confirmed on this band. I search for the
callsign and can't
In VHF weak-signal circles around here, most of the active ops within
a few hundred miles know me. But if I just sign W9SZ people get me
confused with W9FZ. In fact, it happened in the VHF contest a couple
weeks ago. I was even using phonetics at the time and the other
station said Hi Bruce, I
Waldo Emerson
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From: Zack Widup w9sz.z...@gmail.com
To: dx-chat dx-chat@njdxa.org
Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] County Hunter's Net Procedures
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:04:37 -0500
In VHF weak-signal circles around here, most of the active ops within
a few
Yes, just like we microwavers also have our own way of doing things (which
is different again than both being described here). When you have a dish
with 0.5 degree beamwidth pointed at someone, you know who the other
station you hear is going to be, so callsigns are just a formality and
legality.
Actually, it was Jon Kimball KL2A. He even posted a spot for a 30m CW
operation of A5A saying it was a Pirate, not us. Interesting to have
one of the DXpedition ops on the cluster!
73, Zack W9SZ
On 6/8/12, JIM Abercrombie 4...@prtcnet.com wrote:
KL7A in Bhutan WAS looking at the cluster. I
that for years anyway...
cheers
Dave G0OIL
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From: Zack Widup
To: dx-chat
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Leaderboards - good or bad?
Someone has pointed out recently that for DXCC requirements, you could get
by with 9 QSO's which
Someone has pointed out recently that for DXCC requirements, you could get
by with 9 QSO's which would cover 160 through 10 meters. You only need one
QSO each on CW, SSB and RTTY, so you could either fit them in amongst your
9 QSO's, or make a total of 11 QSO's to satisfy DXCC requirements.
The
The RTTY mode is not listed in their in the log page or the
leaderboard. I would assume this means they are not doing any RTTY on
this operation.
73, Zack W9SZ
On 5/31/12, Dino Papas k...@cox.net wrote:
Anyone seen any RTTY operation from A5A yet?
Good Hunting!
73 - Dino KL0S
I didn't buy too much at Dayton. I ogled the new transceivers though.
They look like they will take at least several months to learn how to
use!
I bought a few mystery boxes that are supposed to work in the
microwave range of frequencies. They were practically given away so I
will at least have
First off, great presentation Don!
I thought it gave a great perspective of what these icebreaker
DXpeditions and others to exotic places cost. Someone has to pay for
them. The operators on some DXpeditions often bear a great deal of the
cost themselves. I know a few people who have gotten
Looks like Rag's account has been hacked.
73, Zack W9SZ
On 2/13/12, ragnar otterstad la...@yahoo.no wrote:
Gain Your Freedom, Manage Your Own
Businesshttp://whaouh.com/easywork.php?bjshowtopic=o5fx
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Well, Wadiya know?
(Following in the wake of I'll have Nunavut a few years back.)
:-)
73, Zack W9SZ
On 2/5/12, Gary K9GS garyk...@wi.rr.com wrote:
Could this be a new one?
http://www.republicofwadiya.com/?gclid=CPPPxbvngq4CFS6FQAodpw413w
In the upper right corner there is an English
I have to comment on a couple of these:
On 12/22/11, Ron Notarius W3WN wn3...@verizon.net wrote:
Oh, heck Rag, that's easy.
Some people don't have computers in their shack. or even their home. May be
hard to believe, but it's true (I know quite a few right here in my town).
So Logbook
Both my TS-440 and TS-850 allow opening up the transmit function to the
entire shortwave spectrum (1.8 - 30.0 MHz) by removing a diode. I did this
mod to enable 60 meters on both. Do ICOM radios have this feature?
73, Zack W9SZ
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Ryan Jairam rjai...@gmail.com
I was told it would probably be in the Federal Register approximately 15
days after the original FCC announcement. So that puts it some time very
early in January that it would take effect.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Doug McDuff w...@bellsouth.net wrote:
**
Again,
Yes but the hobby interacts heavily with businesses sometimes. DXpeditions
are expensive. I have heard that a full-blown DXpedition to Bouvet will
cost about a million US dollars. That's a lot of money for a hobby!
BTW there may be one in the works.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:08
These people need to get a life. A real life. Ham radio is only a part
of my life, a tiny part lately as work has been frantic. Even if I
didn't work, I am involved in so many other things ...
73, Zack W9SZ
On 10/23/11, Gary K9GS garyk...@wi.rr.com wrote:
snip
SB DX @ WW KB8NW $OPDX.1033
It is not only unethical and unsportsmanlike, it IS illegal. To use
someone else's callsign without their permission is illegal.
That's just as bad as people sending letters to the FCC under a
different name/call stating they want a different callsign, just so
they can get the callsign of the
Back in the late 60's or early 70's I worked a stations signing 9K2S
on 40 CW one night. Another ham worked him and then the two of us got
into a chat on the air about whether it was a pirate or not.
I wanted a QSL but didn't know of a QSL route. I still don't know to
this day if he was a pirate
I believe 3Y0PI and a few others, by trying to follow the propagation paths,
would work USA in the order 1-2-3-4-8-9-0-5-7-6. Seemed pretty successful
for them.
There have been operations especially from the Pacific that completely
ignored propagation. They'd have paths to USA and JA at the
Tweak up those low band antennas!
73, Zack W9SZ
On 6/15/11, Bill Hawkins bhw...@hughes.net wrote:
I thought we just came out of that!
Bill W5EC
BREAKING - major AAS solar announcement: Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop
in Solar Activity
The American Astronomical Society meeting in Los
Yes, 12m did sound great. I worked 4A4A on 17 and 30m last night. Good
signals on those bands, too.
I don't quite understand why the CY0 people have such huge pileups. I
didn't think they were that rare. I heard many familiar DXer calls
working one of them on 40 CW last night. Many of them I
I keep hoping a big-time DXpedition can make it to Bouvet some day. I
didn't work Chuck Brady and I didn't work the last operation there.
It's one of the six I still haven't worked.
:-(
73, Zack W9SZ
On 3/1/11, Ron Notarius W3WN wn3...@verizon.net wrote:
(Moving discussion to DX Chat)
I'm moving this discussion to DX-CHAT.
Even in the ARRL CW DX contest last weekend I heard a DX station
sending N2D? N2D?? and a W5 kept calling. W5 isn't even close to N2D
in CW sound.
There is no excuse for it. I don't understand it, either, but then I
don't do it. Maybe you'd have to ask
Yes. I got into the DXCC program in 1992. At the time I had cards for
several deleted countries I'd worked and confirmed as much as 20 years
earlier. I submitted them in 1992 and was given overall credit for them back
then.
I later also got credit for ST0 South Sudan, ZS9 Walvis Bay and ZS0
There is a prediction in the latest issue of CQ Magazine that predicts the
SFI won't get above 140 for this cycle. That means very little or no F2
propagation on 6 meters this cycle. I tend to believe that. It agrees with a
prediction Carl K9LA made some months ago.
Oh well ...
73, Zack W9SZ
Yes! Yes! Yes! Where are they? Get those Palos Verdes Sundancers going!
SFI is around 70 now I believe. Not a whole lot better than at sunspot
minimum.
:-(
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Harris Ruben n2...@arrl.net wrote:
You are entitled to your opinion.
As for me, I
Yeah, no kidding. And considering the press' ability to get things wrong at
every turn, it might not even have been a ham radio antenna.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Ron Notarius W3WN wn3...@verizon.netwrote:
The MS-NBC story online is short on details.
Anyone know who
Check this out John:
http://www.ng3k.com/Misc/cluster.html
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:39 PM, jcowe...@comcast.net wrote:
Is there a DX Cluster that I can access via the internet that allows me to
make queries (eg. SH/DX FT5GA) and shows me an active cluster with DX Spots,
Not to make light of the strife and trouble going on there, but I wonder if
a deleted country can be reinstated? I have ST0 South Sudan as a deleted
entity.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 3:19 AM, DAVE WHITE mausop...@btinternet.comwrote:
Clip from today's Sunday Telegraph
My understanding was that they had some documentation but it was thought
that their license or OK to operate was issued by a regional authority -
sort of like the state of Illinois issuing me a license instead of the FCC.
I'm just happy that it finaly got approved. I have one other confirmed
I had one CW QSO. My card went out in the mail to DJ3XD this morning.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Mike D'Alto d...@optonline.net wrote:
OK, so I had 5 QSOs with 7O1YGF which I never requested confirmation for.
After the 7O1A debacle and my cards being rejected by the
I think it would be great if a DX club got that call! Better than someone
who has no idea of its history.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Urb LeJeune u...@w2dec.com wrote:
The call W4BPD is available. Gus, W4BPD, was one of the great all time
DXpeditioners
and DX
See you hopefully operating in P5, 7O or FR/G!
:-)
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:59 AM, David Yarnes w7...@cox.net wrote:
My wife was raised in the Greek Orthodox faith, and as an adult she has
very few kind words to say about the church, primarily because she feels
they are so
I have only one QSO with Desecheo right now - 15 meter SSB with the dynamic
duo who operated there a few years ago.
I want to get at least a CW and a digi QSO and maybe a couple other bands. I
hope they aren't going to assume everyone in North America has KP5 confirmed
on all band-modes already.
I still contend that IBM and others have no real RF engineers working for
them. None of them seem to understand radio-frequency interference or
near-channel effects on things such as noise floor.
We studied all of that when I was in college in 1974 studying RF
engineering. It's not new data, just
W6ELProp is maybe not as good as VOAProp but it's decent, too. And it's
free. You just have to come up with the numbers yourself and enter them.
73, Zack W9SZ
On 12/30/08, DAVE WHITE mausop...@btinternet.com wrote:
Hi all
I realise that this is a bit off-topic, so please feel free to reply
/12/08, Zack Widup w9sz.z...@gmail.com* wrote:
From: Zack Widup w9sz.z...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Dissed by Infoworld?..and QRM.
To: dx-chat@njdxa.org
Date: Tuesday, 30 December, 2008, 3:33 PM
I still contend that IBM and others have no real RF engineers working for
them
You know I've always done this because opthers have told me to do it.
However, it begs the question: Where do the letters go (by what route) if
they DON'T say Via France on them? What route do they take when they DO
say that?
73, Zack W9SZ
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, DAVE WHITE wrote:
Hi
Has anyone in the USA on this group (well, let's even say North America)
worked/heard A5100A yet? All the spots I've seen for them have been from
Asia and EU and I haven't heard a peep from them.
73, Zack W9SZ
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Yes, I got mine some time ago too. Beautiful card! That's the reason I
like paper cards.
73, Zck W9SZ
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My thanks to the many folks who responded to my question about VP6DX QSL
status. It seem all have had them for a month or so, and I haven't
Hi Urb,
Have fun!
Maybe ARRL will send them to you? Send an e-mail to the DXCC Desk.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Urb LeJeune wrote:
I'm returning to active DXing and a couple of decades of inactivity. What is
the
procedure for getting my official DXCC listings (Mixed and Phone)
Hi Boris,
I am assuming that if I have DXCC credit for Bosnian T9 callsigns, that I
don't need to do it again for E7 callsigns? In other words, Bosnia has not
changed DXCC status, it is just a prefix change?
I hope to work you soon!
73, Zack W9SZ
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Boris Knezovic E73TW
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, DAVE WHITE wrote:
Ain't nobody getting any younger, Dave! At least if they are, he should patent
his secret and sell it.
Well, I have this photo that I keep stashed away in the attic ...
:-)
Seriously, I find it's a little more difficult for me to stay awake all
night
Very sad news.
Zack W9SZ
**
I regret to report the passing of Ray McClure, W8CNL.
Ray was a well known DX'er, with #1 status. He was the QSL manager for Bob
Furzer, 9K2ZZ (K4CY), the creator of the LOGGER32 logging program.
His funeral
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Jim Abercrombie wrote:
By my last line I meant hams as far back as I can remember.
Also, one of the other terms which crept in from CB is what is your
personal?. I even heard an Australian ham ask someone that question on 10
meters SSB a couple of years ago. Also we have
It appears to me that the use of Over, Standby, Please, Sorry,
etc. fall right in line with the Incident Command System (ICS) and
National Incident Managament System (NIMS) adopted by emergency
comunications personnel in the USA. These systems urge the use of common,
plain wording in message
Heehee! I love it!
You left out the part about staple on the mic of your choice.
:-)
72, Zack W9SZ
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Peter Dougherty wrote:
Yesterday afternoon a cluster-crab made an off-hand about 10 and 15 (or was
it 17 15) being dead - to which I replied in a very pythonesque manner.
I think directional CQ's can be used very wisely but how they are used
depends a lot on where the DX is and their knowledge of propagation.
I imagine almost any location will have areas where propagation only
exists for a short time to those areas and other areas where they have
propagation
(I'm moving this to DX-CHAT)
All of my Q's are there.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Shack wrote:
I've never had so many Q's not shown in an online log. I know that we all occasionally
think we made a contact but don't but I'm missing two (30 and 40 meter CW) in
the online log and am
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Dan Zimmerman N3OX wrote:
Mike,
I think you're on to something.
TI9 is apparently #87 in the DXCC most wanted for 2006. I'd believe
that... there are other things I would rather knock down but there's
not a whole ton of activity. It's good DX and lots of people need it.
First, log into Yahoogroups. Then go directly to this:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DX-IS/
You should be able to join from there.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Tom Provost wrote:
How does one subscribe to DX-IS? I looked in the Yahoo Groups search but, it
wasn't listed. I know it's
I don't know. Martti and Olli wanted to give DX'ers a first QSO with
FJ, not let everyone fill in all the band/modes they could. It wasn't an
end-all DXpedition and I deferred to only one QSO with them, on 40 CW, in
respect to everyone else who wanted a QSO.
FJ is a beautiful tourist
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:
A very interesting document.
I noticed that one item appeared to be missing... when the first complaints
surfaced, one of the charges was that of possibly illegal entry to FJ via
a privately chartered boat, as I recall. No mention of that in the
Don't know what equipment they're using but I think they have verticals on
the beach. I'll bet they're running a kW though.
Their signal has been superb here, too. What really impresses me is that
Olli just works EU right through the USA wall on CW. Maybe he has very
narrow filters. He
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:
Word is that they're using an FT-1000MP and an FT-2000MP. They have an amp
(a Fin Fet which I've never heard of before). And their antenna system is
all verticals.
Sounds like something custom made for Martti? You sure it's not Finn
FET? :-)
I echo the sentiments. Merry Christmas or whatever your Winter Solstice
tradition happens to be, and Happy New Year to all!
73, Zack W9SZ
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Season's Best to you and yours,
Dave and Sandy
W1GDQ
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Keep the faith! FJ is a beautiful tourist island and there will be many
operations from there. I'm sure you will be able to work it in contests,
especially as the next sunspot cycle peaks.
Maybe if I get down there again I can do some operating. The Carl Gustav
Hotel is a neat place.
Wow, the ultimate Rover goal. Make at least one QSO from each one!
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, harris_ruben wrote:
http://www.confluence.org/see here
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Did you look at the link? There is an award for visiting and taking a
photograph from the intersection of every degree of latitude and longitude
on land. Extending it to ham radio, I thought it would be neat to have a
QSO from each.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Mike(W5UC)
I'm moving the conversation over to chat.
HOO-BOY! He's in for a surprise. I hope he doesn't get too discouraged
and give up.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, K2EWB wrote:
I have good news and sort of bad news.
The good news is that the group on the island will be there for quite
It was a joke. The lids are sending UP which is a Russian prefix. I
don't think any harm or insult was meant.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Goran Arezina wrote:
Hello to ALL of you,
Why are you mixing all of that with RUSSIANS!
I could mix all wrong things, all around the WORLD,
And Happy Guy Fawkes Day!
73, Zack W9SZ
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, RUSSELL KELLAM JR wrote:
And to you also Dave from one of the colonies Russ W4UBC
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From: Dave G4GED
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; dx-chat@njdxa.org
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 5:50 PM
Subject: Re:
Almost every manufacturer extant today only makes a limited number of
ASIC's etc. for their equipment. The question is how many?
I worked in the consumer electronics repair business for a while and found
that even Sony, which is one of the best when it comes to making older
parts
It appears that QST is available on CD-ROM for most of these time periods.
Maybe someone else has copies of the CD-ROM QST's for 50-59, 80-84, 95-99
and 2000-04 which are currently listed as sold out! on the ARRL website?
Perhaps they can be borrowed?
73, Zack W9SZ
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007,
Yes indeed!
Stephen King wrote a book called Danse Macabre in which he revealed his
philosophy about writing horror stories. He outlined the launching of
Sputnik and the impact it had on him. The method in which he found out
about it was rather dramatic.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, 4 Oct
You know, we could reword that song (my apologies to the Eagles, WB6ACU
in particular)
In a dark radio hamshack
CQ in my ears
Warm smell of the finals
Rising up through the gear
...
73, Zack W9SZ
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Garth wrote:
You can check-out anytime you like...but you can never
Darn it! I was looking forward to working that one! Maybe later ...
73, Zack W9SZ
425 DX NEWS
HR - QRZ-DX reports that the 23-28 September operation from Swan Island
[425DXN 854] has been cancelled because of a transportation
[conversation moved to DX-CHAT]
It always amazes me what people do and don't have worked. I worked FT8W
many years ago. I still need FR/G too.
It took me somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes to fill out the whole
survey. I only need 8 more, so beyond that I tried to estimate based on
what
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Charles Harpole wrote:
Get off the computer and get on the air, I say !!!
73,
Charles Harpole, HS0ZCW
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best advice I've seen all day!
73, Zack W9SZ
Now QRT Internet
Now QRV 40 CW
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I have quite a few cards from various operations in TRNC over the years.
Alas, it is not a country in DXCC eyes. I guess their government isn't
officially recognized by anyone but Turkey.
Sort of like Seborga. :-)
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Charles Harpole wrote:
Hello DXers,
That might work provided he hears it and isn't sending dits through your
message.
I suppose you could listen for a bit and wait till he pauses.
I still think the Rotten Radio series should be revived in modern times.
:-)
73, Zack W9SZ
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Charles Harpole wrote:
Tonight I
Still waiting here for BS7H, N8S, VU7RG.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, nick cominos wrote:
Has anyone received cards yet?
vy 73,
Nick W9UM
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This is
I wonder if the people making anti-ARRL statements have even bothered to
talk to any of the ARRL officials? And if not, why not? I met Joel W5ZN
at the Dayton VHF banquet last year (2006). What a great guy! I've had
numerous chats with Dave K1ZZ. I always seem to cross paths with my
As an aside, I probably have a snowball's chance in a heat wave (like the
one we've been having here) of working him UNLESS it turns out it doesn't
count.
So if I end up working him, I'm guessing it won't count. Murphy's Law or
some such.
(This is all tongue-in-cheek.)
73, Zack W9SZ
On
I just keep mine in those shoe-box sized storage boxes you can buy at
Wal-Mart. Having one extra could be an idea if the USPS loses your package
on the way to or from Newington, though. I hadn't thought of that.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Bob Beaudet wrote:
I was a QSL Manager in
I worked a certain very active CIS-country station some years ago and
sent for a card with a couple GS enclosed. After about 5 months I worked
him again and asked about it. He said he'd never received the card.
I sent another with a couple GS. A month later I got an EASTER card from
him
Looks like it's OK03cs.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Charles Harpole wrote:
Can any one give me my grid designation for 13 degrees 46.434 by100
degrees 11.346 ???
That is 34 KM directly west of central Bangkok, Thailand in Nakhon Pathom
district and Nakhon Chaisri
Depends on the font. On the one I'm using, the zero has squarish
corners and the oh is more rounded.
Grid squares always go LLNNllnnllnn ... etc. (Letter Letter Number Number
...) so you could count on the third and fourth characters to always be
numbers. Sometimes in microwave work we use
Hi Anil,
I'm not quite sure what you're asking but I sometimes use mine to monitor
various UTE transmissions outside the ham bands. It has a feature that
will analyze the signal and determine if it can decode it and what it is.
It can decode an amazing variety of signals other than RTTY.
There's some discussion in the news about Gitmo Bay:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/21/guantanamo/index.html
It's hard to tell if they are talking about just closing the detention
center or closing the whole base. Hopefully the base will remain.
73, Zack W9SZ
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The callsign was 9X5HG. Maybe that's the difficulty.
I had a nice ragchew with Hartmut one day, sent a card to him while he was
still in Rwanda and received one back in a few weeks.
Hartmut's home call is DK2SC.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Mark Robinson wrote:
Looking back in my
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, lmecseri -KE1F wrote:
Hi DX-ers
Have anybody heard about the status of this expedition? 3B6SP WEB site
contains no new information, the last news release is dated June 1st.
According to published schedule they should be operating by now.
I wonder if Cyclone Gonu
I have also observed this with ham radio in the last 40 years. It was
more pronounced back in the 60's when most of the people in my home town
were only in touch with people in that town and some of the surrounding
communities and with relatives at more distance. The radio amateurs,
There have been numerous operations using that same call over the years.
I don't know if Chris ZS6EZ manages QSL's for all of them or not.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Les Kalmus wrote:
Worked them July 20, 1993 and got a QSL via ZS6EZ.
Les W2LK
Mark Horowitz wrote:
Does
I hope so. What better way to hatch new DXers?
I can just see it now - Martha, hand me my binoculars. I think I see a
rare yellow-speckled DX-beeper. I'd know that call anywhere
- di-di-di-di-dit dah-dit dah-dit.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Fri, 11 May 2007, DAVE WHITE wrote:
They do seem like an
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:
Well Mome, the point I was trying to make was that any effort to re-do the
DXCC list -- something that I do NOT personally advocate, by the way -- over
from scratch will create just as much controversy as retaining the current
list; and possibly
Yep - it's the Worldradio Worked-100-Nations (W-100-N) award. The
original award rules required that you not only work work stations in
inhabited countries, but that you work citizens of those countries (not
visitors). They were relaxed a bit so you can work a visitor who has a
non-portable
On Sun, 6 May 2007, Peter Dougherty wrote:
heh. The club station in question for me was the Hall of Science in
Queens, WB2JSM, of which I'm a life member and past VP and station
manager. I don't restrict myself artificially when it comes to
all-time new ones, with one exception: I won't
A few years ago. He's AE6IY now I believe. I exchanged a couple e-mails
with him shortly after he got an e-mail address and he said he would be on
the air again soon. I haven't heard him, though.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Sun, 6 May 2007, john wrote:
Didn't Don Miller just get out of jail ,
Great quote Dave. This is only a hobby. I am not going to die if I don't
work BS7H (and the likelihood of it at this point looks prety slim -
they're supposed to be on 14024 now and I don't hear a peep).
When the weak signals, kilocycle cops and tuner-uppers get to me, I
usually just shut
I remember ZS8MI (Chris) some years ago was primarily working SSB but if
requested he'd plug in a straight key and work you on CW on the same SSB
frequency.
Any chance you could do that?
Zack W9SZ
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Charles Harpole wrote:
NC1L of ARRL tells me that a valid DXCC contact
Hi Charlie,
Swan Island and Swain Island are two different islands. Swan is off the
coast of Honduras and now belongs to them. The prefix I'm familiar with
used to be KS4.
Swan Island was once the site of Radio Swan, later called Radio Americas,
that was a CIA-operated station broadcasting
British Empire Radio Union - ever since our little tussle in 1776 we in
the USA haven't been permitted to join in this contest. :-)
73, Zack W9SZ
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was unable to find this contest listed anywhere, including QST. What is
BERU??
John Owens -
I saw that packetcluster spot and I thought it was referring to P5
Broadcast (i.e. North Korean shortwave station). I could be wrong.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Jack - K4WSB wrote:
Anybody got an idea as to who or where this guy is?
Jack Hartley
K4WSB / VP2MSB
ARRL - QCWA - OOTC
My guess is Tony T77C also. He's been active lately. I worked him on 30
CW on 24 Feb.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:
Russ,
Can find no listing for T77NN, not even on the T7 call book online. Could
it be Tony T77C that you worked?
73, ron w3wn
I remember RO4OA as being a good QSL'er. I have a few from him.
Zack W9SZ
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Out of roughly 20 Moldova contacts, I have only one ER confirmed (a spl.
event stn. qsl'd by ER1DA) but have two RO qsls from 1989. All were sent
direct. Ah, for the good
Those people seemed to have incredible ears. I finally worked them on
Sunday. They were barely a whisper here but they pulled my signal out
too. And they kept at it till the QSO was complete.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Tom Anderson wrote:
VU7RG logs have apparently been updated
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