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May 1, 2011 Leave a Comment
February 10, 2011 2 Comments
Headsets & Bob Heil’s Story
Do you own a Heil headset and have you ever wondered about the story behind Heil Sound? Then this might be of your interest!
While thinking about upgrading my sound equipment to a Heil PR-40 microphone I stumbled over a 15 minute long interview with Bob Heil, K9EID the founder and CEO of Heil Sound, which you should listen to. [Read more...]
January 30, 2011 Leave a Comment
VP8ORK Dinner in Buenos Aires
A few days ago I had the honor to be invited for dinner with the VP8ORK Microlite DX-Pedition Team. Before leaving from Ushuaia, southern Argentina towards the Islands of South Orkney the team assembled itself in Buenos Aires. Thanks to the LUCG (LU Contest Group) and especially the help of Claudio, LU7DW we had a fantastic barbecue in one of the famous “parrillas” of Buenos Aires. While writing this, the VP8ORK is already QRV. If you haven’t worked them yet, go and give them a call. Here are a few pictures of this evening:
October 25, 2010 4 Comments
OZ1AA Cycling around the world
A couple of days ago my friend & fellow contester Thomas, OZ1AA left Denmark on his bycicle towards the amazing destiny of Sydney, Australia. Thomas has currently reached the Ukraine. thomas will cycle through countries like Syria, India, Ethiopia, Sudan and Djibuti, just to name the most “interesting” ones.
June 30, 2010 5 Comments
Presentation: How new technologies affect the art of contesting
Last weekend I was invited to speak at the Contest Universtity in Friedrichshafen, Germany. This year I tried to visualize a rather abstract topic, the influence of technologies on the art of contesting.
Mainly two topics are discussed: Information Management and Software Defined Radios.
Do you like this presentation? Please leave a comment and share your opinion with us!
June 16, 2010 8 Comments
Survey Results
The Contest Community has voted. Almost 500 contesters particpated in the survey on ARRL’s recent decisions. As promised, I’m providing the results one day after the survey’s end for further discussion. Some of the answers are very clear, other’s should be refined. However here are the results without any interpretation or censorship. Take them, build your opinion and share your thoughts with us!
June 12, 2010 4 Comments
Survey on ARRL’s IARU Contest Decisions
Yesterday I received an overwhelming amount of replies on my personal opinion about ARRL’s IARU Contest decisions. Fellow contester agreed, disagreed and expressed their own opinions. The amount of replies is a proof that our contest community takes this discussion serious. However, it is unclear if these personal opinions are representative for our whole contest community. Now, I would like to take this Question on another level. I just created an Online-Survey / Poll. It takes less than two minutes to answer all Questions! Please participate and spread the word! Your vote counts!
The Survey can be accessed through this link:
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/312520/ARRL-IARU-Contest-Decisions
The Survey will be online for three days until Tuesday, 15th of June 2010 – 23:59 UTC. I will publish the results the day after on Wednesday 16th of June.
January 27, 2010 Leave a Comment
Contest station KH7XS for sale!
Are you looking for an awesome new property with a “ready-to-go” contest station? Should it be in a DX location, but with western standards? If you just answered these questions with “yes”, then you’ll be interested in this offer! Today, Bill, KH7XS / KH7B announced the sale of his hawaiian property.
November 5, 2009 Leave a Comment
PVRC Webinars
As already mentioned in on of my previous posts, the Potomac Valley Radio Club (PVRC) is hosting very interesting Webinars with high profile speakers. Since not everybody is fully familiar with the technology / usage of “Webinars”, I compiled a 10 Minute explanation / introduction into the marvelous world of Webinars!
October 12, 2009 2 Comments
PVRC Webinars (in German)
Der Potomac Valley Contest Club (PVRC) führt in regelmäßigen Abständen Webinare durch an dem alle Interessierten teilnehmen können. In Europa kommen Webinars erst langsam in Mode. Um die Hürde des “Unbekannten” etwas zu reduzieren habe ich ein Einführungsvideo in die Welt der Webinars verfasst.
