Ken - Good job, but you need to send the log. Did you forget the attachment? Please note the instructions on the web page. http://www.podxs070.com/2-uncategorised/140-christmas-run Steve

Milt - I've been mulling this over for a while. 1. So what are my personal goals for 2021? - I'd like to spend more time on the radio. When propagation was poor, it was easy to "not bother with it bec

Phil - That was surprisingly tough last night during our QSO. Glad we got it done. Merry Christmas to all! Steve W3HF

Jim (and others) - There are lots of uses of CQ with a qualifier that don't imply a contest. "CQ DX" doesn't mean it's a DX contest. "CQ Hawaii" typically means you want to work a KH6, not that it's t

Milt - Yes. The "rules" page explicitly says "any HF band (160m through 6m)". Steve

Jerry - I hope Mike stays on the air for a while. I need him too! Steve W3HF

Club member Mitch K9ZXO is operating the K9Z special event station on 40m. You might ask "what is the event?" It's the 22nd anniversary of the birth of the PSK31 mode! Steve W3HF 2115z

John - That's an artifact of the broken software. Something isn't getting connected between the "add the new member" logic and the "rebuild the membership list" logic. As a result, we are defaulting t

Steve - I'm pretty sure we've identified both callsigns as belonging to you. I was really posting that about RC3, and that's an annual thing. During this year, we've had two callsign changes we know a

John - Exactly correct. You never really know what the other station is going to do, and since the exchange is so quick, I just run with it. Besides, it's the courteous approach. I usually average two

I hope everyone is enjoying the contest. I've seen a lot of stations on the air, and that's great. But I've also seen some signals on the air this morning that cause me to question whether everyone un

As the scorer of the RC3 championship, I have a request to make to a small subset of our members. First of all, if you are unfamiliar with the Rollo Cup Contest Championship (RC3), it's the year-long

Of course, if you only receive digests, you might not get this reply until tomorrow. So I'm including a copy to you direct. Steve W3HF

John - KC3FL posted that he'd likely do the same thing today. You might want to check the posts at the groups.io web page for updates prior to the digest. Steve W3HF

I saw nothing on 12 but noise. Less noise on 10m, but just as many (or few) signals. Steve W3HF

Tnx QSO Alan. Been a while since I worked AK from the east coast. Now that I'm on 12, my noise level is sky high! Steve W3HF

Alan - Just saw you on 15. Steve W3HF

Did you guys all move up to 15? I'm seeing nothing but a CW signal at 21070.5 or so. Steve W3HF

Agreed. But remember that most of my antennas are indoor (due to HOA rules), so I don't bother. (I figure if lightning hits the house, I have bigger problems than a zapped radio.) This was the one exc

Bummer. Back about 15 years ago I fried the finals on my FT-817. Fortunately I had another rig, but hadn't gotten around to setting up the interface for PSK. The dead finals gave me the incentive. My