I havent seen any posts on the reflector
today. Is it down?
Jim N4JA
Haven't you guys have something better to do than
to beat this dead horse to death. Go work som
DX!
I was listening to the 4O3T on 15 meters. I
read somewhere that they were using Steppir antennas loaned by the NCDXA.
If they were using the Steppir on 15 meters today, it speaks well of the
antenna. They were the only European station I could hear. I am ordering one
Monday.
Jim N4JA
I've been reading this thread about the operation
of KH8SI and all I've got to say is instead of being a cry-baby, you should
sharpen your DX skills. I've had no problem working them 5 times on 3 bands-all
SSB.
What I've noticed is callers parking on one
frequency and calling over and over
I worked 406dx on 15 meters yesterday. This
was supposed to be a big DXPedition having k8lee as the qsl manager. I want to
work them on 17 meters and haven't seen them spotted today. Do any of you
know what the story on them is?
Jim
When I did a log search this morning, only two
of my qso's were in the log. They are now updated and all my contacts are
there. Sorry for the previous post. If you don't know where the log search
is, do a Google search for "kh8si log search" and the second listing is the
right one.
De:
N4J
I see on the kh8si log search that I have one
contact on 20 and 17 meters each. I also made contacts with them on 15 and
40 meters and those contacts are not in the logs. I am wondering if the
entire logs have been uploaded, or I am not in the log on those bands? Actually,
since their sign
I notice on the spots on the cluster that
Montenegro's new prefix is Z7, but YU6AO is still using his
same old call. I want the DXpedition using the call 4O6DX to come back
on because his mngr is K8LEE and I will have a better chance to get a QSL.
Sent YU6AO a card for a contact back in Jul
I don't see the problem with moving the digitalsw down below 3600. Those
modes are narrow-banded and don't occupy the space a phone signal does.
Neither does CW. For the digital operators I would suggest they narrow up
their I.F.'s to prevent them from copying adjacent signals, after all PSK
o
Like another person has noted: Read the application paper where it clearly
tells you how to sort the cards when you send them. I followed the
directions when I sent in about 180 cards at my last submission with no
problems. If you follow the directions you will have no problems. The
applicati
People say ARRL does this and does that. What you are missing is the ARRL
is the members, not a seperate entity. You elect the directors which govern
how the league functions, just as the US government does with it's elected
representatives. If you don't like the direction the directors are t
Charley, K4VUD, announced he had mailed out these
cards. Has any of you received yours yet? I haven't gotten mine and
wondered if the mail is that slow from Thailand.
Jim
Paul Hansen has an authorized repair and warranty
Icom shop in his home. He only fixes Icom radios. He is located at 1140 Watkins
Rd., Anderson, SC 29625. Telephone number is 864-222-3539. He is a
licensed ham with a 6 call, but I don't remember it.
Jim N4JA
I am using a 7 year old Kenwood TS-870. I was
tuning around a few days ago and found a very strong carrier at 20.000 mHz. I
don't remember hearing it before. It is inside the rig and is not coming
from the antenna. Antennas switched off and input grounded. Is this
common to this rig or h
Washington D.C.-
It was announced today that Kellogg's and the Federal Communications
Commission have signed a pact to
issue Amateur Radio Licenses on specially marked boxes of Corn Flakes. In
this unprecedented move
the FCC believes this will not hurt amateur radio but allow all
individu
I have intermittent line noise and it is loudest on 10 meters. I am telling you
this to explain why I was on 10 meters. The noise is loudest pointing south
toward the noisy pole. I heard several stations from MD and NJ calling CQ I
called the MD station and turned the antenna toward him and los
Even though some are getting the on-line results from N8S, we on the east coast
are getting a message that the service is temporarily unavailable. Go figure.
From the N8S Online log:
W5UC20 m C
W5UC15 mC
W5UC17 m C
W5UC20 m R
W5UC15 m
Below is the message we on the East Coast are getting from logsearch.de and the
website. I just copied and pasted this at 02:00Z on 4/12/07
Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance
downtime or capacity problems. Please try again l
I downloaded dxkeeper. My question is how do I add old QSO\s from my paper
logs? I see everything I need except the place to add the date of a long past
qso.
73.
Jim N4JA
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Thanks to all who replied. Got it working. Now the tedious task of
transferring from my paper log.
Jim N4JA
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frequency, a very important part of working DX. I
did have to call him for over 1 hour to get through and I got through about 45
minutes before we lost propagation. I could hear him most days, but not well
enough to have worked him again.
73
Jim Abercrombie N4JA STILL AT #1 on the DXCC Honor
A friend of mine sent me the link below of pictures of what is claimed to be
the world's largest SteppIR antenna stack. There are many pictures and the file
is 11 meg., so you will need a fast connection to download it. Click on the
link below and you will see why your verticals didn't snag the
Scarboro Reef meets the criterior because the rocks are above the water
level at high tide. The deleted country that has the JD prefix was only
above the water level at low tide. It was submerged at high tide. That is
one of the rules that governs what is a country, not whether or not you can
Go to QRZ.com. Click on main menu. Then click on callsign database. Click on
name search. Then put his name in the blank. Every ham with that name will
come up and you can weed him out from all the names.
Jim
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The deadline for the DXCC yearbook as I remember it was 12/31/06. The
deadline for the QST list of honor roll was 3/31/07. I think I'M right on
this.
Jim N4JA
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Subject: [DX-CH
Has the league started mailing out the DXCC Yearbook yet? If not, when can we
expect them, if you know?
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Its agreed upon that the books are in the mail so I guess mine is stuck
somewhere in the USPS. Will now go outside and wait all night with
anticipation by the mail box.
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After standing out by the mailbox all night, my DXCC Yearbook finally came
today. I was so looking forward to seeing my call in there for the Challenge
award. I thought that was the reason we had to have all of our cards in by
12/31/06 so they would count for this years Challenge Award. This ye
What are all those DX'ers who do not have the internet supposed to do? I guess
they are gonna hafta whine like me.
Jim
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From: Gerry Hohn
To: dx-chat@njdxa.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 6:28 PM
Subject: [DX-CHAT] Yearbook whine
I'm perfectly happy to
Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Yearbook whine
They could go to the nearest Internet Cafe or public library and see/print
them there.
Gerry
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there.
Gerry
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What are all those DX'ers who do not have the internet supposed to do? I
guess the
Go to the following url and you will find the challenge standings are not
available:
http://www.arrl.org/awards/dxcc/listings/
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I'll say again, you assume all dx'ers have the internet. The internet is not
available for most African locations unless you live in a large African city.
The same is true for South America. A lot of rural locations in the US does not
have internet available-thus the FCC wants BPL. Nothing st
It may be that they did not get the other card. I had to send for another
card from you when I did not receive the first one you sent me. By the way,
I did get the second one, but never did get the first one. We had several
emails over this. Strange things going on with the mail system.
Jim N
Romney "Disses" Amateur Radio In Televised Town Meeting (and why he won't get
my vote)
Worth reading for any ham.
Jim
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I cannot export DXKEEPER log data to LOTW. I can export an adi file and when I
try to put it into tqsl, I get a message that there is no data in my adi file.
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After uploading some log data to LOTW, I cannot get updated logs to load . I
got in touch wit AA6YQ who wrote the program and I have lost his phone number.
If he can email me direct, maybe we can resolve the problem.
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I am computer illiterate when it comes to converting log files. I cannot get
logger32 to load my logs into LOTW. I keep getting an error message saying to
download files from All operators, Jim, or N4JA. Whenever I try any of those
three, It says there are no logs for those operators.. Is the
On the VE7CC network, if you are a member of LOTW, there is a plus sign in
front of your call. Also, there is a LOTW checker that says "yes" or "no" to
show if you are a member. I have emailed VE7CC and the HB9 who keeps the list,
but neiher have answered as to why I am not listed and have ign
I emailed my LOTW log file to HB4BZA. I hope it solves the problem of not
being listed.
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Has anyone found a way to run the SteppIR in the general mode using the FT-950.
It runs fine with my TS-2000 kenwood.. I can't get the radio to talk to the
SteppIR at any baud setting. I can't find any info in the radio manual. any
help appreciated.
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I googled 5t5da, etc and I can't fing a log search page .Is there one and what
is the url?
Jim
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I wonder why M squared gets by with mounting 3 seperate 2 element beams
resonant on three non-resonant bands on the same boom. If they are not resonant
on the same bands, stacking distance is irrevalent.
Jim
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In my last email I said M Squared, but after thinking, maybe it was Force 12.
But it was one of them and still my answer is the same: If they don't resonate
with the other antenna, stacking distance is irrelavent. I know this from
experience and from lookng at many antennas with interlaced elem
I received an email today stating L.B.Cebek, W4RNL, has passed away. For those
of you who don't know, he was one of the premier antenna experts who wrote
several books and had an antenna web site. This has to be a great lose to
amateur radio.
Cebik was, before retirement, a professor at The U
I have a very hard time getting IRC's. Need a qsl from Thailand and want to
send greenstaps. How many greenstamps does it take to buy postage from there
back to here? pse reply directly.
N4JA Jim
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11 meters. They have always said (although
incorrectly) 73's which means "plenty of best wishes".
Jim Abercrombie N4JA (an original non-vanity call) ex- K4BMS
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"The Old Man" himself was guilty of this faux pas. Case in point, he
signed the back of his QSL card "Best 73's 1AW H. P. Maxim" see link to
image: http://www.telegraph-office.com/pages/images/Maxim_signature.JPG
Another example appears here:
http://picasaweb.google
I found all my Rwanda qsls on LOTW today when I logged in. They were put there
over the weekend of the 4th. I don't recall the call just now becaused I closed
the LOTW page. I think it was 9X0A. Hray for LOTW! I only wish I had become
a member earlier! If you are not using LOTW you are miss
I worked KP2M on May 8th, 2008 on 17 meters. Sent a QSL to the QRZ.com address
and the envelope was returned by the post office in The Vergin Islands. Does
anybody out there know the correct address? Or does anybody know who was
operating the station on that date since it is a club station?
Ji
Thanks to all who responded. I have the correct manager now. The manager is
not listed on qrz.com but is listed on hamcall and IK3QAR's web site, which as
you can see from my inquiry, I didn't check there as I should.
73,
Jim N4JA
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Mine came in the mail today. Have had them confirmed by LOTW about a month.
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Is E7 a new and seperate country from YU now?
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Can someone send me the url to see the logs of the BT china olympic stations?
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YI1I was on 17 meters today.. Do any of you have his QSL info or know if he was
real or a pirate?
BTW I worked VU7SJ on 30M and 15M CW and neither contact shows up on his log
search. Pirate?
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turn it face down on a thick book and the cover will slide up and off. to
put the cover back on reverse the process
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Anybody know how to get the co
The ham that senr me the url for yi1i as being n9nic and said he worked yi1i on
20 meters ssb please send me your call again. I have lost that email.
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I found someone else who worked YI1I. AC4GT worked him on 10/24/08 at 17:03 on
14005.5.. Pirates do get around!
I worked him on 10/31/08 at 15:28 on 17 Meters CW. He was on only anout 10
minutes.
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He was coming through long path on 7005 last night early about dark 30.
Called him but an A61 answered me.
Jim N4JA
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Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 4:27 AM
Subject: [DX-CHAT] A5100A
Has anyone in the USA on t
I am at the top of the honor roll on phone and mixed. I thought it was high
time I became a real dx-er and work them on CW. I have worked all the dx I
have been able to find who use LOTW and I have worked well over 100. I have 93
LOTW CW contacts confirmed and 6 QSL's in the box for a total o
Was surprised to find my QSO's with E44M confirmed tonight on LOTW.
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The "E" in Spanish is always pronounce like the "E" in they.
It never is pronounced like the E in eh?. The eh sound does not exist in the
Spanish language. Therefore, dessa-CHE-oh is how it is prounounced with an
American accent and is incorrect.. Reference:"Diccionario espanol-ingles"
publi
Saw where Ron notarius got his 15 meter DXCC. Thought I would share my
experience on working CW DXCC. I was able to copy 20 wpm on paper in 1968 when
I took my Extra and had to pass a 20 wpm sending test with a straight key, but
gave up on CW after that. Last year I thought it was time for me t
We have a new DX club here in South Carolina. Gus was from SC in the
Orangeburg area. The Name of our club is South Carolina DX Association, SCDXA.
I have forwarded this email to the club officers.
Jim N4JA
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how much does it cost to send cards to the bureau. Price per lb and fraction
of a lb.
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I got the answer. Thanks.
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Last night at 00:12Z The packetcluster reported XV4D on 14009.1 I worked him
longpath. Could not get him at all on shortpath. I assumed it was XV4D since
that's who the packetcluster said he was. I heard him sending CQ NA and read
that much, but I did not read his call, which I am prone to
Thanks for the info and log search page. I am confirmed on 20M CW.
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I am running Logger32 and I would like to download for free or purchase a
program that I can flag qso's to print lables to attach to qsl cards. Any
suggestions would be appreciated. I like Logger32 because I can click on calls
in the telnet window and, if I make the qso, all I have to do is hi
Thanks for all the replies. I've gotten some good suggestions.
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There were Radio Blackouts posted on the VE7CC-1 cluster page. Solar flares,
proton events, etc cause radio blackouts. This is a common problem in years
with high sunspots numbers. I've seen all bands go dead during years with high
sunspots numbers. These number also cause aurora.
Jim N4JA
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I sent $5.00 to manager and got cards and LOTW confirmed quickly.
Jim N4JA
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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 2:46 PM
Subject: [DX-CHAT] ST0R & LOTW
Did anyone who QSL'd direct with an IRC to ST0R
My 80 M CW QSO on 1/25/12 at 01:15 is missing. It must be in the lost log all
of you are talking about.
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You guys are forgetting one important thing: The UN must accept it for a new
country before the ARRL will recognize it.
Jim N4JA
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Subject: [DX-CHAT] Republic of Wadiya - New Country?
Coul
We are only past Ground Hog Day. Its too early for April Fools Day.
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What about us who have limited incomes? I was preparing for retirement, but
unfortunately I became disabled before I was vested in
the retirement system. How are we supposed to "buy" our QSL's? I have a fairly
good station and I have been able to work all the
recent DXpeditions. I was at #66
What about the rule 97.113 (a) (2)
I think we are getting into a grey area here. Also, does the dx operator think
we should pay for part of his "vacation"? After all I
know of many dxpeditions to the Carribean resort Islands. With tongue in cheek,
maybe the Socata Island could be thought of as
Let us now, since I got off my soapbox, put this discussion to bed.
73 and I think after getting my blood pressure up over the rudness of some
operator, who we all know where he's from, I think I'm
going to be operating nets on 2M, 40M, and 80M. The XX was up this AM and I
didn't bother with le
I went to Dayton 8 years in a row. My wife is from the area We stayed with her
brother. The last year I went was in 1991. Now we
have her family reunion around the 4th of July and we go there. Being poor
folk, we can only afford one trip up there a year. It is
a 9 hour drive from here to her b
On their webpage it says you can donate via paypal, but it does not say to whom
we are supposed to donate. It says to put your call
in the comment box of paypal, but where do we send the money?
Am I missing something?
Jim N4JA
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O6T
On the 7O6T website, go to the "Support" page and scroll to the bottom.
Then click on "Donate" and it will lead you through making your donation.
I think they will miss out on some donations because it's hidden at the
bottom of the page.
73,
Tim - N3XX
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I have credit cards and a paypal account. As I said earlier I have been to the
7O6T web site, searched both QSL and Support sites,
have been to the bottom of each page. At the bottom of the Support page is a
"Donation" button" I click on it and it immediately
brings up my paypal account page.
Here's a copy of the email I sent to UA3DX:
On your webpage there is not a link for OQRS and I do not know who my paypal
account is supposed to pay. I can go to my paypal
account and put my call into the comments box, but I see no place to add where
this money is going. I don't need the cards,
I fannaly got the correct information from Wayne Mills. All you other folk left
out all information I need. You only supplied part
of the info.
TO make this transaction:
1. go to the 706T web page.
2. under log put in your call and the chart with your Qs come up
3. Scroll to the bottom of that p
I submitted my LOTW credits on-line Saturday and we had Memorial day yesterday.
My LOTW were accepted and confirmed when I looked
about 1PM today, Tuesday.
Fast turn around!!
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This all I've heard for three days. I wish the subject to be changed. If you
want to work them once, work them once. If you want to work them 25 times, then
do it.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [DX-CHA
KL7A in Bhutan WAS looking at the cluster. I saw several spots he self-posted
as from KL7A spotting A5A. What you said is not
always the case. KL7A is listed on the A5A web page as one of the operators
there.
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Cc:
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012
KL7A in Bhutan spotted himself several times. I saw him spot himself on 10 mHz
asking if there were any NA.
He also spotted a pirate using A5A callsign on 40 M and he commented, "We are
still in daylight here".
I don't buy even one of your arguments, because I am going to operate my
station the
When calling a station I always give my whole call in phonetics and in the
report exchange I always use phonetics for my call, I
have worked them all and have them all confirmed as a result of being a ham for
over 50 years. This problem doesn't exist for CW or
Digital.I have heard nets asking
I took a 1st phone course from NRI back in 1965 and took two courses in
electronics from the physics department at UNC at Chapel Hill in 1966
and 1967. There was some things we learned about ones and zeros back
then, but that was over 40 years ago. I worked in broadcasting until
1984, but everyth
I hope all of you worked the 3y who needed him. I
have another problem. Some one worked him using my call on 40 meter cw and
80 meter ssb. I did not work him on those two band/modes.Also someone
worked him on 17 meter ssb using my call. All of my legitimate qso's are
there except a 15 met
I haven't sent cards out through the bureau in
several years and I have a bunch of cards I am answering through the
bureau. I called the ARRL the ther day and there was no one there who knew
how much it now costs to send cards out. The last time I saw anything on
this, a pound of QSL's was
Does XMLog have files that can be uploaded int
LOTW? I just downloaded it and the help files don't say?
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