myself Ken, your points are well taken. I've seen a lot of sentiment expressed here about the decision to quit printing line scores in QST, but except for the gentleman from Arizona trying to organi
Thank you, Patrick. That needed saying again, so I did. 73, de Hans, K0HB _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.co
handheld? Yuri, We get the picture. You hold the "SOTB" people in some disdain. Too bad for you (and them) because that's where the future radiosport players have to come from. Talked to a young fel
all all Warren (and all), The story of "Jim" is a fictional representation, intended to highlight the harm that (well-meaning) OT's do when they take a "schoolmaster" approach to indoctrinating newc
contesting EXACTLY!!!! -- Hey Kids -- Are you READY FOR (drum roll) A weekend-long World Wide game of Electronic Splat Ball Compete from your own shack against players from over 100 countries, tropi
Hear, Hear!!!! I second the motion. 73, de Hans, K0HB _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/c
If I hear an aborted CQ I'll wait a respectable time (at least several milliseconds), drop in a "QRL?" or two, and then mash the <F1> key. If you can take the freq back, you're welcome to it. Otherw
Go to http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html -- read the story. Then shut up about "level playing field". dit dit de Hans, K0HB _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mail
Which is what makes it so damn much fun! I can build a better antenna to compensate for my poor QTH. I can learn a new trick (SO2R maybe?) to give me an advantage over a less skilled competitor. I c
Faster than me! 3, de Hans, K0HB _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
Second the motion. When you need verbatim hardcopy (as opposed to "conversation") 5-letter coded groups are FAR FAR easier to copy at high speed. Copying without having to "understand" what is being
advisors Why would that be? Personally, I'm HAPPY to get information from the people directly involved! Too often all we get is rumors, third-hand opinions, and other 'filtered' una-Basher jeremiads
all In all fairness, it's only been online for 2 weeks! Only a few 'pioneers' are likely to have their software installed, their certificates requested or installed, let alone uploaded logs at this
Noticed at the eQSL web site that they have a new service " We have added a new Contest Room to our Chat facility, so you can find people you want to work during contests." Wonder if contest sponsor
Yes, it's ugly, David. But it's not ugly because you didn't have a lot of time; it's ugly because you took the time to toss out in a public forum a lot unproven innuendo and snide comments, and then
My attempts to work 160 during SS have never turned up more than a small handful of contacts. Admittedly expectations are often the father of results, so just count me as one data point. 73, Hans, K0
Wouldn't it be a shame if there were no "master cheat list" and folks hadda actually COPY something? 73, de Hans, K0HB <cq-contest@contesting.com>; <ct-user@contesting.com>; Yankee Clipper Contest Cl
year, if for no other reason than to confound the robots who auto-populate their logs with information not actually copied off the air in real time. 73, de Hans, K0HB -- The world's top contesters ba
available in various modes before the contest submission deadlines. I make no comment on anyone's intention being anything less than honorable in posting it or their right to do so. But an on-line l
Yesterday evening (Saturday) during SS I noticed K3xxx (callsign fictitious) blissfully running a nice open freq at 3751.000. Since he was running LSB, a fair portion of his signal was down below the