My sincere apologies to the certificate winners from the TDW this past May. I thought I had mailed them out and while cleaning my desk I found the envelopes. I am going to the post office now. Again I

Enzo - I will look for you. Steve W3HF/KH6

Pse welcome new 070 Club member Red KJ4RKB #1642...73 de Jay N3DQU

South Italy present ...................... 73 de Enzo ik8jku

Ted - My antenna can do 10-40. (I made QSOs on 10-20 on VQ9, and I know I've done 30 and 40 before.) I was planning to start on 20 just because the Clublog statistics showed it as being the best band

Steve, can you do 15?   Ted K7TRK ________________________________ To: 070@... Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 11:06 PM Subject: [070] W3HF/KH6   (I keep getting messed up by the

(I keep getting messed up by the YahooGroups web page--when a CR posts a message and when it just ends a line. Sorry.) My wife is leaving tomorrow night and I'm here for a few more days, so pending

--- In 070@..., "melachri" <w3hf@...> wrote: > > Ted guessed it. We arrived in Honolulu a few hours ago. > > As before, I have work to do that will limit operating time. And more

Contesting is all about keeping up the Q rate (number of contacts per hour). Contest stations have to decide whether spending time in a pile up is worth it or not.  In a big pile up, time spent will

for stations all want to work) - tuning the band after hitting the spots you can will yield some DX you need but hasn't been spotted yet so you have a MUCH easier time getting through to them. I've

Good points David -  I would point out that 10M and 20M are a bigger (digi) bands so even a small station can generally find a "run" frequency to call CQ - other bands where it's more crowded it's

Thanks folks for the grid location help!

Glad to hear you had fun diving into a rtty contest -- that was the facet of the hobby i first started with ... It's a different ballgame than psk (esp the causual 070) contests! :) Some thoughts on

That's a question that is difficult to answer.  NAQP RTTY is a unique contest where any use of spotting requires you to be registered as multi-op, not good if you are just operating on your

Craig, VK5CE calling CQ with no takers on 30M 10.1412. Time now is 2215. Bill AG4QX #398

Sometimes you want to be the hunter and sometimes you want to be the bait. Mix it up and enjoy both. Barry VA7GEM 1470

My suggestion would be to "run" a frequency (call CQ) and  also do some "search & pounce" (spin the dial) to pick up those stations which run frequencies and don't search & pounce. I've used this

Armed with the suggestions obtained on earlier posts about brevity and form I jumped into the naqp rtty contest yesterday. My First attempt at rtty. Without the help provided by Joe and several

Hey Dan,   Many tnx fer the QSO and welcome to the club.   Lots o' fun lives here.   73 Joe KA1PPV  #1482

Pse welcome new 070 Club member Dan AE7IH #1641...73 de Jay N3DQU