Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 16:39:29 +0000
Nothing stops you from remote mounting your power amplifier at the base of the tower though. Then the output power is measured with only a short run of coax left. Ed N1UR ____________________________
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:16:53 +0000
Thanks for this interesting info. There has been virtually nothing relayed by the WRTC Committee to the outside world on what is going to happen there. No site information and obviously no mention of
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:16:37 +0000
Hi Rich. However, you are affecting the scores of other participants by pulling Qs away with a tool that is not allowed by others. As an example, if a record was possible, and scores are lower, this
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:58:02 +0000
Sorry but activating a callsign block is not the same as broadcasting them continually over the cluster when no one else can do it. Such decisions should not even be the sole responsibility of WRTC t
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 20:36:32 +0000
Jack its worse than that actually. The organizers will apparently scan the bands for SSB signals and spot them for the competitors. Kind of like a manual SSB CW skimmer Ed N1UR Ed; It appears that yo
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:09:41 +0000
Don't you find it ironic that the same competition that requires you to not use SCP, not have your volume on until the start of the contest, not allow you to identify yourself on the air, is going to
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 20:15:47 +0000
Thanks for this information Fabio. So essentially because the logs are real time into the central system you are creating an SSB skimmer, not by pulling signals off the air like CW Skimmer but by mon
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:18:15 +0000
Dave, In the immortal words repeated from Luke Skywalker - everything you just said in this post was wrong. Actually, very few of the top contesters operate single op seriously in IARU. The HQ statio
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 16:10:27 +0000
Does anyone know where these are being operated from in IARU? Ed N1UR _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mai
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:50:04 +0000
I saw an interview that K5ZD did on not only his WRTC experience this month but also describing the variances of stations and problems that occurred. I have to say that I am surprised by the silence
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 12:57:23 +0000
Hello Jorge. I can only speak for Germany as a competitor but was also very familiar with the US 2014 WRTC. Other than any possible equipment malfunction, which you can never rule out, I believe virt
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:08:19 +0000
So is the "Radio in a Box" on island with the operators operating remotely less than a km off shore a valid IOTA operation? Sounds like if the operator remotes in from around the world using the boat
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 19:39:21 +0000
IZ3EYZ was the same gentleman who operated remote illegally using a US station but not being a US licensed operator. He used the US station callsign. The scores were ultimately disqualified in the WR
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 22:39:22 +0000
Back in the 70s and into mid 80s, you needed a person to maintain the dupe sheet and to scream out DUUUUUPE as they found it. It definitely slowed down one operator back then to do both. FD allowed t
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:14:32 +0000
I wanted to put out the question to the group here to see if I am interpreting this correctly. In the 1st qualification area of the US, there are 3 qualifying districts, W1, W2, W3. If the highest sc
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:37:11 +0000
Ron, Then why not say there is one TL for W1 and W2 and W3. Instead of calling 3 TL from the area and then distorting the qualifying. Have 3 people win every contest that are all actually competing f
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 21:27:32 +0000
You need to look further down the rules and look for the "exceptions". Ed N1UR Where do you get that there are three qualifying districts within NA "Maximum Score is the largest published score in th
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 22:11:16 +0000
From the rules: In order to reduce geographical and propagation differences in sparsely populated areas, the following Selection Areas are further divided for score comparison: W1 ME, NH, VT, MA, CT,
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:17:44 +0000
Hi Ron. Lets use this example. The W1 winner has 1,000,000 as a score and I am number 2 with 950,000. W1 winner gets 1,000 points and I get 950 points. Lets say number 3 and 4 get 900,000 points and
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 09:36:56 +0000
Correct. I am asking if this is the correct interpretation. And as Tonno has stated it is. And its insane actually. Either make W1 W2 W3 each separate areas and let the best man win or have the whole