Hi Contesters.... [snip] Traditional ham radio has hardly disappeared. Practitioners, though, are mainly the over-40 crowd, people who were bitten by the radio bug well before the computer and Intern
<< A rather glaring inequity...? comments?? >> If it were the CQWW, I am sure there would be LOTS of "N" calls or "U" calls showing up in ONE of those logs! ;-) The CQWWCC is ALWAYS publishing their
Fellow Contesters: [The following comments are my own opinions and in no way should be taken as being representative views of any group or committee with which I may be associated.] There is no doubt
<< This isn't related to callsign length. If you are too weak or too slow to get the DX's attention, then it doesn't matter if your call is G0D. It's the first letters of your callsign that perk up t
<< but what concerns me most is the 2 mults I lost from the US stations worked on 80m for zone 5 and 15m zone 3...I only worked one station each from US for the zone mults and it seems as though some
<< In the future, all qso's will be logged here. >> What an EXCELLENT concept! :-) It is hard to understand why someone would NOT log a same-country qso (zero pointer). If you going to bother to take
<< Well, we will have made about 14K QSOs and in that bunch will be K3CR, AA4LR, W0AH, etc, etc. The logs of K3LR and W0AIH will have nice "N's" on them for the reports of the J6DX QSOs, but there wi
Contesters: Tim has made a wonderful accurate and encompassing comment. Please read it carefully! From his comments, it appears clear that they are logging LOTS of W's...far more than they NEED. As t
<< In one place of the report FAQ, it states that you can compare your UBN rates to the averages of the top-10 in your entry category. At the same time, there is no UBN percentage listed anywhere in
<< As I recall, was rumored that W6VSS was running 10 KW on 20 meters & got caught by the FCC. >> Nahhhh...this can NOT be true. I CLEARLY recall the photo of Dale holding the SINGLE 4-400 with the c
<< Excuse me - I suggest you look at some of the WPX results from the 1980's & early 90's - when the limit was 30 hours. East coast winning WAS NOT a given. I know because I won from Texas in 1984 (2
Contesters: Reading over all the musings about the WPX (or whatever the "contest of the month" happens to be), I can see that the goal in all cases seems to be to be able to compare apples to apples
Dear contesters: KU2M is trying to compile a list of EVERY operator from any of the K2GL/W2HJR/WA2ZAA operations. If you are one, plse reply! If you know of one, plse reply! Include your call then/no
<< didn't see K3LR complain about the East Coast (yea, he's a 3 - but almost an 8) doing all those M/Ms, coming in second, third, etc. No, Tim kept up his attack, honing his station and crew. And the
<< Once we standardize all contests to this format, then it will be much easier to keep things straight because everything will be nice and predictable, like the time period of the contest, the excha
Hi WPX proponents and detractors, I don't care if you consider this an "option" for the WPX, CQWW, ARRL, or AA...it's just an idea directed at intra-USA equity. Since us "East Coast" guys are so good
<< "Beginning with the 1999 contest, the scoring will be changed to Let's see...if the lead time for finished articles is about 3 months, and if it took a month to decide that this would be included,
I find that my "usual" drivers/passengers are either not going, or are flying out this year. If you have extra room, PLEASE let me know. If you have extra passengers and want to unload one or two, PL
<< ...Now for the real serious business, what are you going to do with that $10 gift certificate you won for that $1500 rota roota ring-a-ding you won at the contest dinner? Or that 500 mackerel gift
<< Yes, it's an "empty victory" for the cheater, but also a real disappointment for the legitimate player who rapidly loses motivation to go up against these guys year after year. >> Look....the firs