Contesting & SDR

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.

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.

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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!

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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.

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Presentation: SDR & Contesting

Last weekend I was invited hold a presentation about Software Defined Radio & Contesting at the Hamradio Convention in Friedrichshafen. Due to the high resonance I made the slides available on this website….

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