When a "Sunday driver" guy calls me in the contest from DJ and sends me 5901 instead of 5914, that clearly is wrong. You're saying that I should log it as 5901 and not make the correction? K4XS In a
Following that line of thinking, when someone who has a ratty fist sends his call incorrectly during my QSO I should log that call, and not the one I think it is? Gonna cost you points. I've worked q
The concept of sending your call works for at least two major contests...Sprint and SS. K4XS In a message dated 11/26/2013 7:06:42 P.M. Coordinated Universal Tim, ku7y.cw@gmail.com writes: I think th
Fewer catagories? Nah. We forget about the little guys who use a vertical and 100W. They cherish the third place finish single band 10meter LP assisted certificate in CQWW for the fourth district. Fo
Without some sort of penalty why not guess and/or make up "uniques". Only the Qs that they don't like are the ones you lose. I don't know if the prior or subsequent QSO should be lost, but there need
I moved to KH6 in 2006 knowing that the boys in the big basin south of the US would have an advantage over me in the DX contests and in the domestic contests. Granted it ain't like moving to HS, but
I bet the concept is very popular on the left coast and we in the SE would love it. I'm not too sure about the guys in W1-land. It also levels the field for zone 8 and zone 9. Bill K4XS In a message
Uh, that was 40 years ago when there were bunches of JAs to work...so many that a JA speaking op was used for those runs. That was the good old days and now WW contest top honors are reserved for tho
No disrespect intended for those fine efforts outside of the NE.... However, KQ2M was a 38 hr effort, K5ZD chose the classic as did NN1N. If any of those stations had done a serious 43+ hour effort w
Two years ago one of our members, W4LT made a great SSB pileup tape and a competiton was held at our dinner before Orlando Hamfest. Being more of an SSB guy than a CW guy I did pretty good. However,
First, I didn't do the NAQPCW, but almost always do the SSB version. Once upon a time before I had a big station I was a little pistol too. I realistically set my goals...maybe first place in FL, may
I'm not sure how I feel about the new rule. There are runs and then there are runs. I've been on the run end of a 350+ hour and a slower runs of 150. A better way to accomplish the objective of signi
The sprint rules with the QSY rule were from the beginning. Many contest change the rules over the years, inlcuding. The exchange for SS once included the time of the QSO...lots of others for this po
480 Qs per hour on SSB? Pretty good op. Bill K4XS In a message dated 2/2/2014 2:07:48 P.M. Coordinated Universal Time, r.vaicius@ando.lt writes: t could be around 4 QSOs in CW and around 8 QSOs on SS
A run of 6-8 would require you to sign 2 or 3 times a minute. You say you sign 1-2 times a minute anyway. In essence, you are signing one more time. KQ2M takes a second to say. But lets's face it, we
The cars racing at Nascar races are IDed by their numbers at all times though, aren't they? Not to have an identification number would be a black flag. K4XS In a message dated 2/4/2014 11:08:29 A.M.
Suggestion: Get the Heil headset. Take out the (new) cartridge and replace it with a HC4 cartridge from a junked old headset. I did not like the sound of the new cartridge...not enough bite. So I rep
I have no horse in this race, but I looked up KP4KE on QRZ and then tried to locate his QTH from QRZ. I then tried to locate the station on Google earth. The area he is in does not have the best reso
I heard the same sounds Sunday morning while the stack was facing NE on 10. I was interesting to see them on the scope. I doubt what I heard was from BY, since the signal took out everything I was he
I add my kudos to the boys who run the CQ contests and the plaque/awards program. We sometimes forget the amount of work that goes into these contests. You guys do a great job. Also thanks to the clu