"Keyboard In The Wilderness" wrote in message news:awdfd.76614$hj.65646@fed1read07...
Telnet connections can be found at URL:

http://www.cpcug.org/user/wfeidt/Misc/cluster.html


10M is pretty grim now as we are on the down slide of the solar cycle -- but
some openings are still occurring as you will see when you connect to a
packet cluster via telnet.


--
The Anon Keyboard
I doubt, therefore I might be

About a decade ago, QST ran an article about a ham in Texas that had
DX contacts --daily--, even during sunspot minima.

Awful news, I guess.

But even a General can get on 20M.

"Walt Davidson" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:11:11 -0700, "Keyboard In The Wilderness"
wrote:

Sir Walter -- we did it the old fashioned way - we earned it !
Listen listen listen tune tune tune
and you will be the first to work the rare DX

The first cluster spot is made by a DXer who performed the above

So true!
;-)

73 de G3NYY

--
Walt Davidson Email: g3nyy @despammed.com

"Find 'em, work 'em, spot 'em."
That moves a lot of folks out of your way while you find the next one ;-)

--

... Hank

http://horedson.home.att.net
http://w0rli.home.att.net

"Walt Davidson" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:11:11 -0700, "Keyboard In The Wilderness"
wrote:

Sir Walter -- we did it the old fashioned way - we earned it !
Listen listen listen tune tune tune
and you will be the first to work the rare DX

The first cluster spot is made by a DXer who performed the above

So true!
;-)

73 de G3NYY

--
Walt Davidson Email: g3nyy @despammed.com

"Find 'em, work 'em, spot 'em."
That moves a lot of folks out of your way while you find the next one ;-)

--

... Hank

http://horedson.home.att.net
http://w0rli.home.att.net

Peter Dougherty wrote:
Yeah, that's true too, but on the whole between **listening** and seeing
the spots, I've not busted one in any of the contests I've played in
yet.

Yeah, it's that important word **listening**grin. Too many folks don't...

--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Peter Dougherty wrote:
Yeah, that's true too, but on the whole between **listening** and seeing
the spots, I've not busted one in any of the contests I've played in
yet.

Yeah, it's that important word **listening**grin. Too many folks don't...

--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Walt Davidson wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:21:38 -0400, "G. Doughty"
wrote:


Thanks for the help.

ki4bbl


We never had this problem when Short Wave Listening was accepted as
the universal "apprenticeship" for ham radio. As SWLs, people learned
how to *listen* ... an invaluable skill for any aspiring DXer.

Unfortunately, if there is any apprenticeship for ham radio nowadays,
it is usually CB ... which only serves to teach people bad habits and
poor operating techniques.

73 de G3NYY

thanks

Walt Davidson wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:21:38 -0400, "G. Doughty"
wrote:


Thanks for the help.

ki4bbl


We never had this problem when Short Wave Listening was accepted as
the universal "apprenticeship" for ham radio. As SWLs, people learned
how to *listen* ... an invaluable skill for any aspiring DXer.

Unfortunately, if there is any apprenticeship for ham radio nowadays,
it is usually CB ... which only serves to teach people bad habits and
poor operating techniques.

73 de G3NYY

thanks

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In article jCdfd.79937$cJ3.39267@fed1read06, says...
Thank you, however, I do not have internet access upstairs. Only a phone
line. Is there a way to access via phone or is that too much to ask? I
don't have aol or anything, just broadband in one spot in the house and my
shack is upstairs.

Pick up a wireless broadband router, then put a wireless card in your
notebook. Once the wireless network is set up properly, you should be
able to take your notebook just about anywhere in the house -- unless
you have a house the size of Graceland or something -- and still access
the Internet.

--

-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email: