Just want to let every one know that I have uploaded my whole log (193,000 qso) to LOTW yesterday, it took around 3 hours to complete the the process, I hope I made the right thing by uploading it.
So far so good many confirmation received
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Monday, November 5, 2007
Culture Change on DX Cluster?
John & List,
I was thinking to write about the same topic after the contest but then i thought why i have to open a subject which many will not understand it the way i meant it. I will write only about the contest topic issue and nothing else, I do participate in all major contests and i know exactly what does it mean when i'm spotted in the DX cluster it clearly means more qso's, Just to give a bit of history, the guys at the our local club started to help me by spotting me when every they HEAR me on any frequency during any major contest just to show their support, after few years there were a list made for those who have suspicious spots and i was listed among them, because i'm spotted from the same ip address for more than once or twice (sure it is a club!!) after this and because i want to be very clean i asked every one in the local club few 4 or 5 years back DO NOT SPOT ME let the others do it, I ended up with much lower qso number than or stations in my area, OK tell me now if i'm a DX from a semi rare country, and i don't belong to a country with high ham population and my own people are not allowed to spot me i will always end up with much lower qso numbers which mean less score!!
I'm sure that if i was a member of one country with high ham population they will keep spotting me all the time. and now i can say i'm sure that most of these spot are not real!! YES SIR.... tell me now if i'm the only one from 9K in all band (except 20m this year) and based on the comments i get on the air i do have a good signal why i'm not getting spots like the others? which they are operating from a country with many hams and many of them joined the contest as full time? and specially they are spotted after each band change.....
Think?
de 9K2HN
Hamad
On Nov 1, 2007 12:46 PM, John Warren <nt5c@texas.net> wrote:
I think I detect the start of a culture change on the DX cluster. You
may not care about it, or - more likely - you'll deplore it, but I
think it's happening anyway, and probably can't be reversed.
It's self-spotting. In most contests it's illegal, but not at other
times, and for many less experienced, and often less powerful DX
stations, especially outside North America, putting one's own
callsign on the cluster is becoming a definite aid to CQing on the
bands.
Under certain circumstances, I don't look at it quite as negatively
as some purists. It's useful for "priming the pump" for unusual
openings, when you alert people to turn their beams to unconventional
directions. For example, 10M long path when (if?) the sunspots come
back, or 10M side-scatter in the summer.
What say you?
John, NT5C.
I was thinking to write about the same topic after the contest but then i thought why i have to open a subject which many will not understand it the way i meant it. I will write only about the contest topic issue and nothing else, I do participate in all major contests and i know exactly what does it mean when i'm spotted in the DX cluster it clearly means more qso's, Just to give a bit of history, the guys at the our local club started to help me by spotting me when every they HEAR me on any frequency during any major contest just to show their support, after few years there were a list made for those who have suspicious spots and i was listed among them, because i'm spotted from the same ip address for more than once or twice (sure it is a club!!) after this and because i want to be very clean i asked every one in the local club few 4 or 5 years back DO NOT SPOT ME let the others do it, I ended up with much lower qso number than or stations in my area, OK tell me now if i'm a DX from a semi rare country, and i don't belong to a country with high ham population and my own people are not allowed to spot me i will always end up with much lower qso numbers which mean less score!!
I'm sure that if i was a member of one country with high ham population they will keep spotting me all the time. and now i can say i'm sure that most of these spot are not real!! YES SIR.... tell me now if i'm the only one from 9K in all band (except 20m this year) and based on the comments i get on the air i do have a good signal why i'm not getting spots like the others? which they are operating from a country with many hams and many of them joined the contest as full time? and specially they are spotted after each band change.....
Think?
de 9K2HN
Hamad
On Nov 1, 2007 12:46 PM, John Warren <nt5c@texas.net> wrote:
I think I detect the start of a culture change on the DX cluster. You
may not care about it, or - more likely - you'll deplore it, but I
think it's happening anyway, and probably can't be reversed.
It's self-spotting. In most contests it's illegal, but not at other
times, and for many less experienced, and often less powerful DX
stations, especially outside North America, putting one's own
callsign on the cluster is becoming a definite aid to CQing on the
bands.
Under certain circumstances, I don't look at it quite as negatively
as some purists. It's useful for "priming the pump" for unusual
openings, when you alert people to turn their beams to unconventional
directions. For example, 10M long path when (if?) the sunspots come
back, or 10M side-scatter in the summer.
What say you?
John, NT5C.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
GAME OVER
The Game is Over... CQWW DX SSB my best contest is over for this year, now we have to wait till 25 Oct 2008 for the next CQWW.
Anyhow it was big fun we had great time all the guys was great, every thing went as expected no hardware problem what so ever, anyhow we made around 5,000 qso and a score of 10.5M which looks fine for the current propagation status (Bottom of the solar cycle) .
as promised in my earlier post i have recorded the whole contest in to mp3 format files each 41mb in size to download them go to http://www.9k2hn.com and click on audio recording link.
Please let me what do you think, and also you can find your qso with me and see hos you sounded in the side, this recording was only in the Run station so if the qso is made from the mult station it is not recorded.
Enjoy
Anyhow it was big fun we had great time all the guys was great, every thing went as expected no hardware problem what so ever, anyhow we made around 5,000 qso and a score of 10.5M which looks fine for the current propagation status (Bottom of the solar cycle) .
as promised in my earlier post i have recorded the whole contest in to mp3 format files each 41mb in size to download them go to http://www.9k2hn.com and click on audio recording link.
Please let me what do you think, and also you can find your qso with me and see hos you sounded in the side, this recording was only in the Run station so if the qso is made from the mult station it is not recorded.
Enjoy
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Audio Recording (whole contest)
Yesterday I spent few hours looking in the internet for software enable me to record the whole CQWW contest in audio format and store it (or share it) in my pc, finally I found a great software which can record very easily and the audio file will not take much space on the HD and it is recording directly in MP3 format, the software name is RecAll-pro.
I have connected my radio IC-756 pro III from the rear audio jack and i found out that it is not recording my own voice... UMM i want to know what I have said also this is the main idea, so i had to buy a Y connector and plugged it in the front jack and in this way I can record both the transmitted audio plus the received one, by doing so the project is completed the most important thing is to press the record button in the beginning of the contest otherwise it will be waste of time and effort.
I have connected my radio IC-756 pro III from the rear audio jack and i found out that it is not recording my own voice... UMM i want to know what I have said also this is the main idea, so i had to buy a Y connector and plugged it in the front jack and in this way I can record both the transmitted audio plus the received one, by doing so the project is completed the most important thing is to press the record button in the beginning of the contest otherwise it will be waste of time and effort.
So when i'm done i will post a link where you can download the audio clip.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Getting ready for CQWW DX SSB
Time is really passing very fast i remember we have just finished from last year contest and we wear unhappy with the conditions, and here another year with bad conditions and in this time we are in the bottom of the solar cycle , so we have to keep in mind very low activity on 10m..... But this does not mean not to try 10m from time to time.
Both stations (Running + Mult) are ready, and this time there is a big improvement by adding the new 2 element monobander for 80m by optibeam this monster will boost our qso number AND Mult on 80m compared with a rotatable dipole in the previous years.
One more thing to add here is we are a guest operator coming all the way from Miami to Kuwait City just to participate in this event he is Marko N5ZO, we welcome him to the team and happy to accept him as a new friend.
Looking forward to work you all, Please give us a call when ever you hear us.
QRZ Contest Nine Kilo two Hotel Norway
59 21
73's
Both stations (Running + Mult) are ready, and this time there is a big improvement by adding the new 2 element monobander for 80m by optibeam this monster will boost our qso number AND Mult on 80m compared with a rotatable dipole in the previous years.
One more thing to add here is we are a guest operator coming all the way from Miami to Kuwait City just to participate in this event he is Marko N5ZO, we welcome him to the team and happy to accept him as a new friend.
Looking forward to work you all, Please give us a call when ever you hear us.
QRZ Contest Nine Kilo two Hotel Norway
59 21
73's
Sunday, September 30, 2007
LOTW
Hi,
This is my first post, I hope i'm doing it the right way, I just want to let every one knows that I have uploaded 9K9X (My contest call) and 9K2F (IOTA AS-118) to the LOTW two days back. If your log already uploaded there go ahead and download your new confirmation.
Still I will wait till I upload my main LogBook of 9K2HN with more than 180,000 qso, But after lot of studies it seems it is a must and time saving if you are applying for DXCC, soon i will start sorting all my qsl cards and after this big job is done i may upload my log to the LOTW.
I was shocked to see the speed of their servers I processed my 36527 qso for 9K9X for less than 30 minutes or so......
I'm always wondering is LOTW going to kill the qsl card? I like qsl cards and i like qsling and if i start using LOTW the number of cards i will be receiving will be reduced for sure!!
But in the other hand majority of the hams all over the world still use the bureau system and don't know (or how to) lotw, so i will still get some cards via Bureau.
who knows
de 9k2hn
hamad
This is my first post, I hope i'm doing it the right way, I just want to let every one knows that I have uploaded 9K9X (My contest call) and 9K2F (IOTA AS-118) to the LOTW two days back. If your log already uploaded there go ahead and download your new confirmation.
Still I will wait till I upload my main LogBook of 9K2HN with more than 180,000 qso, But after lot of studies it seems it is a must and time saving if you are applying for DXCC, soon i will start sorting all my qsl cards and after this big job is done i may upload my log to the LOTW.
I was shocked to see the speed of their servers I processed my 36527 qso for 9K9X for less than 30 minutes or so......
I'm always wondering is LOTW going to kill the qsl card? I like qsl cards and i like qsling and if i start using LOTW the number of cards i will be receiving will be reduced for sure!!
But in the other hand majority of the hams all over the world still use the bureau system and don't know (or how to) lotw, so i will still get some cards via Bureau.
who knows
de 9k2hn
hamad
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