On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Dean Norris wrote:
From OPDX 574.
DX OPERATOR(S) NEEDED (Interesting Operation Of The Week). OPDX has been
informed that Susan Meckley, Skipper, W7KFI/mm, will be leaving in about
two weeks on a 2+ year DXpedition into the South Pacific and Asia. She
will be using a
We saw one person complaining that the callsign was illegal. I wonder if
he actually checked with the authorities to see if the callsign was
issued?
I know I worked V7A in a contest once; it was a special call issued to a
station normally having a V73 callsign.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, 3 Oct
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I guess if you're going to go illegal, you might as well go all the way.
My understanding is that if you operate illegally in some of these
locations, notably VU4/VU7, you risk VERY serious consequences with the
authorities if you're caught.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002,
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, W0YG Charlie Summers wrote:
I wonder how many of you folks have seen the excessive amount of illegal
gear being posted on eBay in the ham section. I am sure a major amount of
that type of gear goes through that auction house. I would say 5-15 items a
day are posted.
I
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Kelly Jones wrote:
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Ron Notarius WN3VAW wrote:
Oh, and Kelly (KE9KD) -- I haven't looked, but if the Sugar Delta guys
have indeed swiped your content, I hope you know a good lawyer who can draft
a cease and desist or else letter. Theft like that is
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Norm Gertz wrote:
Ron wrote: Other FB activity: Guantanamo Bay? We have some military
personnel
breaking the law? Really?
Should not happen on a military base..I will see that the base Comm
Officer is advised and hope that corrective measures are taken as
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, John E Bastin, K8AJS wrote:
At 11:16 AM -0600 12/4/02, Zack Widup wrote:
I really hope they don't hurt our chances for an operation there. I still
need that one!
There's still hope. Don Miller has his license again.
Keep the faith...:-)
73,
I wonder when Don
I don't know the laws of every country. I do know at least two things.
They are not using legitimate callsigns assigned by a government and using
the ITU callsign prefix block, so I assue they have not been issued real
licenses by any country. And it definitely is illegal in the USA or
its
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ron Notarius WN3VAW wrote:
During the CY0MM DXpedition, there was a little flap here 'n' there about
the Sugar Delta web pages of the so-called freebanders.
Many were unhappy with any potential illegal operation that could impact on
amateur radio, which is to be
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Charles Harpole wrote:
Is it just me or did others have an inordinately difficult time trying to
work AH3D ? I could not get into their split patterns, I was always on at
the time when they were interminably calling some other number a long way
from 4 only to switch to
Yes, I am having the same troubles. I thought they might have come back
to me on 40 CW the other night, so I sent my callsign a couple more times.
I heard no response, after about 2 minutes I heard them call someone else.
They were working more EU than they were working USA. It was about an
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Forwarded with permission from ST0RY Pilot N5FG...
One more pilot's note: we get several requests for SSTV. ST0RY will not
operate SSTV. We are sorry!(DL5NAM)
I am guessing from the size of the pileups that this is a much needed
country and
I didn't make it to Dayton but it sounds like that man had a great idea.
I've seen a couple other lamps made from old tubes.
I have what I think is a perfect tube to make a lamp from but I have never
done it. It's been gathering dust in the basement of my parents' house
for 30 years. I don't
A contest fills the band with signals (over a weekend usually),
overcrowding the band and rendering the band almost unusable to those who
don't wish to pariticipate. This award won't particularly overburden any
band, and with QRP it probably won't even be noticed!
Zack W9SZ
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003,
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Charles Harpole wrote:
Two thoughts:
1. Sometimes it is difficult to determine who is genuinely impoverished and
who is just fishing for a new free radio. But, a monk has likely taken a
vow of poverty and from emails on the subject, this Monk seems not to have
the
Very wise statements, Urb. I agree 100%.
I've commented on other reflectors about DXing on VHF. Seems the VHF+ ops
I know are a whole different breed of cat than the HF DXers. Skill with
and knowledge of conditions, luck and equipment are everything there.
There are usually no pileups on
I proposed almost the exact same thing (even to the 10 year period of no
activity) several years ago but I wasn't taken seriously.
I still think it's a good idea.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Ron Notarius WN3VAW wrote:
Good point.
Another reason why it behooves us to be on our best
Hi Larry,
I use http://www.topozone.com quite a bit. After I've located my general
area, I usually select the features 1:25000 and LARGE at the top of the
map. At the bottom you can choose to display UTM coordinates, decimal
degrees or deg/min/sec. I usually use the latter. At the bottom of
where it has
not been since one year before I graduated in 1957, and the 30 year old
neighborhood where I live isn't shown on the map..
At 10:47 AM 7/14/2003 -0500, Zack Widup wrote:
Hi Larry,
I use http://www.topozone.com quite a bit. After I've located my general
area, I usually
I have always took it to mean QSL later, or in other words, he won't
send a card until he gets yours first.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, WC7N wrote:
I guess being licensed since 1952 still doesn't give me the knowledge of all
of the Q signals that I hear on CW. For the last several
Charles Harpole wrote:
FOR RG-58 or 8X or 59... use the correct UG adapter and do same as above,
except, put UG on coax first along with the cap before any cutting. Then
after tinning the braid, push the UG up to the point where the outer jacket
ends and then fold the tinned braid back
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Dean Norris wrote:
Well, I guess that I will start selling off the 'stuff' and get ready to go
mobile in the motor home. To be honest, ham radio just doesn't have the
glitter it did back in the 50's-80's.
Sometimes I've felt that way, too. Part of the reason I've
This has been proposed to ARRL by me and several others and was turned
down. Maybe next century ... :-)
73, Zack W9SZ
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Gary Stone wrote:
Hi,
Well, for what it is worth here is my thoughts. I am sitting at 325 and of the 10 I
have left, several (3 or 4) have no
Has anyone in the USA on this list worked Andy on Christmas Island yet?
I've been listening for him on frequencies spotted on packet hoping to get
an all-time new one but haven't heard a peep. All the packet spots have
been from other areas of the world. I haven't seen one USA spot for him.
Thanks for all the responses. I guess a few people in USA have worked him
but it seems he's not favoring USA with his schedule and he's weak here.
I'll keep trying ...
73, Zack W9SZ
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Tony Martin W4FOA wrote:
Good point Zack and I still prefer .. .
After 50 years of DXing, I am still trying to find the REAL meaning of QSLL.
It can mean only two things (I think)...I will send my card first or I will
wait for your card. It seems about a 50/50 split as
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, John and Mari Minke wrote:
Yup! Over the years I have had almost $3000 in uncleared checks.
Never delete from my balance and have a nice buffer!
John N6JM
Pablo Picasso was a very smart man. He paid for everything by check. He
knew that many people would value
Perhaps they're giving SWL's the opportunity to use the system? I get at
least one or two SWL cards (mostly from EU countries) in every buro batch
of cards I get these days. The SWL's use callsigns (identifiers) that
definitely aren't ham callsigns.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Scott
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Emil Tillona wrote:
Does SM0JHF have a manger?
If he has a herd of cows he probably has a few of them. I wonder if he
has a mangler?
sorry, couldn't resist!
73, Zack W9SZ
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On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Fred Souto Maior wrote:
Demo operation using CW ? Sounds so good as a US$3,00 bill !
Fred - PY7ZZ
I have one of those - it has Bill Clinton's picture on it. :-
I would also guess the VU4 operation was as phony as that bill. Did
anyone get a beam heading on
You'll just have to log your frequency in Hertz!
73, Zack W9SZ
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Alan Leith wrote:
I wanted to mount an expedition to Enterprise Is. but I can't afford it
because I'm on a Budget.
73
Al, VE1AL
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Hey, great lyrics! We can set it to a popular 1960's tune and call it
And the beep goes on...
73, Zack W9SZ
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Larry, K4WLS wrote:
Ode to the CQ WW CW Contest
Every year the CW seems to get faster and faster.
Every year the competition seems to get
Every day I've been tuning around a bit at some time or another and I
haven't heard anything on 12 or 10 meters for a while now.
Zack W9SZ
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Dean Norris wrote:
Has 10 meters been open much lately? It seems to me that the MUF hasn't
quite gotten up there much yet!
Dean
YES!! Definitely.
After you've deposited their check, you'd send them the equipment and then
the balance. Then their check bounces and you're out both your equipment
and the balance.
If you want to go for it, tell them you will have to wait 3 weeks after
you deposit it till the check clears
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Larry, K4WLS wrote:
Last week I had a CW QSO with relatively new ham (3 Yrs on
air) on 7012 KHz. I had to slow down Loigikey to 4 WPM for
him to copy. He gave me a 597 report. Asked him to AS while
I checked my CW tone. He did not know what that meant - so
told him to
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 4/5/2004 8:10:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another one I use a lot is SN (I copy or I understand). I don't
think that one is on the test, either
I always thought this meant I repeat --- actually IR
Let's not forget our friends to the north. Radio Canada did a radio
adaptation this morning about the first group of soldiers to land on
D-Day - Canadians. The radio show was about the throughts and
conversations of the troops who were about to land. No mention was made
of their casualties,
Every postcard I have received in the last 3 or 4 years (QSL cards and
others) have been damaged in some way by the post office machinery. I got
one QSL sent as a postcard delivered in about 5 pieces in a plastic bag.
I prefer getting them in envelopes for tht reason.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Sun,
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Ron Notarius wrote:
Things have been pretty quiet lately. Surely someone out there is still reading
this reflector, aren't they?
73, ron wn3vaw
Not much DX! We must really be in the DX Doldrums. To top it off, someone
stole the ionosphere again recently and it's
I thought some of you might like to see this from another group I'm on.
There are other people besides licensed hams who are against BPL.
73, Zack W9SZ
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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 07:04:35 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations
I think it's a great idea. Some DXpeditions have done it. It is a common
occurrence on 40 meters during phone contests, when a station will
transmit below 7100 and listen above 7200 for USA.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Charles Harpole wrote:
Hello DXers:
A question for all
My understanding of this operation is that it is sort of a
ground-breaking operation which will open the door to future VU4
operations that will be bigger and better. I don't have to work them
right this minute. Hopefully within the next 5 years there will be an
all-out effort from VU4.
?.
73
John. ZL1BHQ
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From: Zack Widup [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: dx-chat@njdxa.org
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 2:23 PM
Subject: [DX-CHAT] Yosemite Sam
I posted this on another group and no one responded. Hopefully it's not
too off-topic but the mystery
I posted this on another group and no one responded. Hopefully it's not
too off-topic but the mystery intrigues me.
*
There is a station we've been discussing a lot lately on the spynumbers
discussion group. We're calling it Yosemite Sam.
The station transmits a brief signal in DSB (no
There is a Yahoo group for the 450/850/690.
Go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TS-850_450_690
and you should be able to join.
There are several ways to make an interface cable for these rigs, ranging
from the cheap to the expensive. The Kenwood IF-232C is probably the most
expensive
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Mome Z32ZM wrote:
Hello DX'ers,
Does anybody know some web where I can download some good program for
counting the WW Locator in case that I put the latlong.
WinGrid is a good one. It's at:
http://www.keplerian.com/
73, Zack W9SZ
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On Wed, 25 May 2005, N7MAL wrote:
Apparently 'Ham-Radio' is not completely dead. There are also 10 nice
photos on the photo link. It's good publicity for Ham-Radio.
Did any of you happen to be listening to Radio Havana last night (~ 0230Z
25 May)? Arnie CO2KK had a spot on Radio Havana
Is there a website somewhere with all this info for the various countries
collected together in one place? I'd do it myself but I'm so busy these
days I have a hard time just keeping up with the e-mail.
Zack W9SZ
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Jan Erik Holm wrote:
This is the cost for Sweden:
1.35
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Larry Van Horn wrote:
OK let me see if I have this straight Tom. The EMP takes out my rf
equipment, but I still have my key to send CW with...on what?
Tube radios! I still have my 40-year-old Novice station (Hallicrafters
HT-40 and Heahkit Mohawk) stashed away
One of my pet peeves is DX operations that don't observe propagation. I
called K7C a bit this morning on 40 CW at 1300Z and they were working
mostly JA's. At that time they only had a short amount of time left for
propagation to USA and another several hours to JA. Best utilization of
I thought I worked them on 40 CW after they came back to W9? but then
I heard them call W0IZ. I sent my call and report again on the
possibility they were hearing me and just heard a TU. So I don't know
if I actually worked them or not. But neither my call nor W0IZ show up
in the on-line
Yes - if there's a computer where you're going that has something close to
current standards (most of the memory sticks I've used lately use USB 2.0)
it's a great idea. You can carry them in your pocket and I don't think
they are affected by airport X-ray machines.
One stick will hold a lot of
The DOS versions of CT would probably be OK, too. I haven't tried to run
them from a memory module, though. I've copied any executables to the
hard drive of the host computer and run them from there.
The memory modules are great for transferring files though. I've backed
up and transferred
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Steve-KF2TI wrote:
According to Bernie, W3UR @ the Daily DX, a KP5 operation is
immanent and initial details can be found at www.dailydx.com
And you thought I was kidding about something good DX-wise this
weekend?
Maybe I'll get lucky and work these fellows. If
Wow - excellent article!
Zack W9SZ
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Bill Hellman wrote:
Remote broadcast
A team of radio fans will go to great lengths to be on the air from
the ends of the Earth.
Aline Mendelsohn
Sentinel Staff Writer
January 4, 2006
This is not the kind of
I have worked neither and will go for either one! Hopefully whatever
operation takes place has a signal to this area when they do.
The recent KP5 was an all-time new one for me. I think we all hope it
counts!
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, HK3CW wrote:
Just a quick question to the
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Mike W2LO wrote:
Thank you to the many individuals who replied. I always believed that SSB on
30 was virtually prohibited world-wide. While I've heard SSB on 30 before, I
assumed that it was due to the fact that it's a shared band, pirates, etc.
The QSO I heard was
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, DAVE WHITE wrote:
One question though. What happened to all the penguins? Do you have
to pay extra for penguins? :-)
Dave G0OIL
I hope there were some around. I was at Dayton the year after the VP8SSI
operation and one of the ops had a couple huge
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, LA5HE Ragnar Otterstad wrote:
But, they also added to the 'on-the-air' problems by wasting hours upon
hours on 160, 80, 40 trying to work Europe after 0700Z when all of Europe
is in bright sunlight.
I beg to differ ! Up in this neck of the woods the low bands
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, N7MAL wrote:
No one doubts those guys were at KP5 but just being there, especially
at KP5, is not enough. Amateur Radio is expressly prohibited on KP5.
There are various groups trying to get Congress to overturn those rules
with, so far, little success. Hopefully the
Never had that happen, but a few years ago I was on the IRC #CQDX channel
and there was a Hong Kong station there also. I don't remember the
details of the call or band, but I said I needed Hong Kong on some band
and he said it should be open now, so we worked on that band.
That was fun!
W9SZ
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Fred Souto Maior wrote:
And what you say about 7O1YGF ???
Fred - PY7ZZ
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From: Zack Widup [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At this time we know NOTHING about why they had to leave the island. If
they had real papers that gave them permission
Apparently there are no on-line logs for this one.
I did find a photo with more promised:
http://www.k3lp.com/k3lp_kp5.htm
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all dx'ers
Any log online of KP5/N3KS ?
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I recently stumbled on some boxes of old QST's I've had stashed away for
decades. I've been having fun reading them again.
It's very interesting to see - here are some of the things I've stumbled
across:
From May 1970 QST:
Correspondence From Members - My receiver is not the best as far as
I hope some of you are enjoying these as much as I have reading them again
after all these years.
From April 1970 QST How's DX? by Rod Newkirk, W9BRD:
And now in response to irrepressible demand (our own) we close out the
DX Test questionnaire series instigated by reminiscences of W2GP.
Some more prizes from old QST's I've been perusing:
From March 1970 How's DX? by Rod Newkirk, W9BRD:
Anyone who has the least familiarity with wizened editorial minds knows
perfectly well what the subject of this month's intro will be. Dern
tootin', an up-dated sample of those questions
I've been looking at some old QST's I had stashed away. Some great stuff
therein ...
From February 1970 How's DX? by Rod Newkirk, W9BRD:
Here we go again - your annual ARRL DX Test coming up! Rare operating
sport for one and all whether you go for score or just poke around a bit
to swap 73
Limericks have certain rules and rhythm associated with them. May I
reword it a bit?
A list moderator named Shane
Never got nuthin' but blame
Some members were bad
Got deleted, so sad
But that was their price for defame
(Well, I tried!) :-)
73, Zack W9SZ
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Fred Stevens
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Peter Penta wrote:
Whats done is done, no one can do anything about it so it's a closed story.
DONE. No one likes what happened , just have to put it in the past.
73 Pete
You could say that about the JFK assassination, too. However, there are
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Dave AA6YQ wrote:
Another question: how does a random licensed amateur cause the operation to
be prematurely terminated? A Freedom of Information Act query into the
agency that implemented the termination might yield a clue or two.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
I
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, N7MAL wrote:
Forgive me for asking a stupid question and throwing water on
everyone's parade but has anyone published a copy of the documents,
signed by FW, authorizing the KP5 operation...???...
I have never seen ANY documents published showing that any given
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, N7MAL wrote:
I've been doing a lot of searching through Gov't documents, which are
accessible through the internet. It substantiated some very interesting,
although well known, information. Amateur Radio is expressly prohibited
on KP5 islands. Those of you who were
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Ron Notarius WN3VAW wrote:
Whoa! Strange is a word a half for this!
And with all due respect to Simon, I would sure like to know a little bit
more about who sent what emails to whom before I start trashing Bernie and
his reputation.
Who sent the emails?
What did
You could try the best of both worlds - Linux!
73, Zack W9SZ
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Charles Harpole wrote:
One who loves Mac computers will never see that another could like a Windows
machine. Maybe that explains how little understanding there is for those of
us who thingk Logbook is a
Yes, and same date as a local hamfest here (Peoria Superfest), the W9DXCC
convention and the second weekend of the 10 GHz contest.
What's a guy to do? :-)
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Ragnar Otterstad wrote:
Bad timing - same weekend as the Clipperton DX Club meeting in Arcachon !
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Tom Johnson wrote:
Can anyone tell me where to find software for this mode?
Thanks
N4TJ
I'd like to know, too. I've seen references to MixW doing it but I don't
have MixW and I'm not inclined to pay for it, when the software for PSK,
MT63, MFSK16, Hellschreiber,
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Fred Stevens K2FRD wrote:
There's also the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle which, in essence
states that one object (or person) cannot be in two places at the same
time. =-O
That is, unless he's in a chronosynclastic infundibulum.
Then again, we have How Can You Be
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, N7MAL wrote:
Here's a new wrinkle... I just received an email from a ham who lives several
hundred miles away from me.(he will remain unnamed but most of you know him)
He asked: Would you let me use your station to work a new Chilean IOTA?
I need to find a station in the
I never tried to get a card from Frank becaue I already have that one
confirmed many times.
There have been several contest operations from there, one even by some of
our local Society of Midwest Contesters gang. I'll bet there are more in
the future. I know the W9's who went there are
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, WC7N wrote:
Well maybe that is the problem now, not the dumbing down of the license but
working hard to support a family, taking too much sh.. from the boss and
just no patience when you get home.
Rod WC7N
No, I think it's the way the society is going in general.
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can still recall one evening in college (about 30 years ago... *sigh*),
when a bunch of us were operating K3CR on 20 phone, when a small pile-up
developed (don't ask me why, we weren't a special event, just a college
club station, and a
Maybe the news didn't make it to this reflector?
YX0A has been active from Aves Island. The other day YV5LIX, one of the
ops, had a heart attack and passed away on the island. The remaining team
members got permission to use the call YX0LIX in commemoration of Jose.
73 and RIP, OM.
Zack
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, bharathi prasad wrote:
Dear dx friends,
I hope u all are happy for vu4 activity.
so many stations are active from andaman . they are active till 25th of
april. I am sure lot of stations had a contact with vu4 in all bandsand all
modes.
Thank you. Bharathi. You
Too much hospitality suites at Dayton! :-)
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Ron Notarius WN3VAW wrote:
This has been brought up on a couple of other reflectors too.
Both eham.net and contesting.com (which are hosted on the same site) appear
to be down for reasons unknown. However,
I think it has happened more than once, in the history of DXCC, that
someone found a new place they thought would qualify as a new country by
the existing rules and also thought they could get there first, so they
pushed to have that new country established on the list and then went and
Six was spotty on and off at our FD QTH over the weekend. Saturday was
better, with quite a few QSO's to the east, mostly New England.
Later in the evening it shifted to the southeast and then to Texas.
Saturday night I worked 40 CW. We were using the call K9CU.
Sunday morning 6 opened to
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Charles Harpole wrote:
The recent ham radio visit to Desecheo Island appears to have resurfaced as
a messy situation now having US Congressional attention. Resources
Committee Ranking Democrat U.S. Rep. Nick
J. Rahall is identified with a staff report on the matter
Here's the link to the Club Fed report:
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/democrats/backgrounders/clubfedreport.pdf
73, Zack W9SZ
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, Zack Widup wrote:
Here's the link to the Club Fed report:
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/democrats/backgrounders/clubfedreport.pdf
73, Zack W9SZ
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Yes, and I can think of at least 3 or 4 immediately. I used to get the
football scores for one of them while he was far away from home.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, N4BAA - Jose Castillo wrote:
What's the big deal?
I have been sent to Iraq, GodDanmistan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Somalia,
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Bill Hellman wrote:
HISTORIC MORSE CODE RADIO STATION KPH RETURNS TO THE AIR FOR NIGHT OF
NIGHTS VII
In the seventh annual event that has become known as the Night of
Nights, historic Morse code radio station KPH will return to the air
in commemoration of the last
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Oreste IZ8EDJ wrote:
3rd Strange Radio Birthday, to remember when the Strange Radio Team
has been founded.
From August 2 to 10, there will be active this Special Call:
I've been curious about this - what is strange, the radio or the team?
And what's strange about it?
That would be Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. I have several cards
from previous operations there. I consider them novelty items. :-)
73, Zack W9SZ
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:
Well, 1B is certainly not a normal prefix for Cyprus (but 5B is). So that's
a warning
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, john wrote:
I doubt that it's any more expensive to mount a DXpedition these days than
it was 40 yrs ago...and is likely cheaper. Done first class, it's always
been an expensive proposition.
I suspect it takes more dedication than it does money, although it
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Mome Z32ZM wrote:
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From: nick cominos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: dx-chat@njdxa.org
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 5:20 AM
Subject: [DX-CHAT] distaste for America especially after 9/11
vy 73,
Nick W9UM
War is Peace
? Who told You
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, w2agn wrote:
Mome Z32ZM wrote:
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From: nick cominos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: dx-chat@njdxa.org
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 5:20 AM
Subject: [DX-CHAT] distaste for America especially after 9/11
vy 73,
Nick W9UM
Not within our lifetimes, anyway ...
I know quite a few hams younger than me who are great CW ops. Assuming
there's enough of them around and that they will outlive me, I think I'll
always have someone to work on CW.
See you all on SKN!
ARL SIXTY ONE,
Zack W9SZ
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Mark
About 10 years ago my landlord came up with a 40 foot telephone pole that
he thought would make a nice tower for me. He had it setting in his
yard and we were just about to transport it to my place and put it up as
a free-standing pole in a big hole I'd dug when someone stole it out of
his
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
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
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