I guess I'm both blind, deaf, & dumb. Could you provide a more complete link to the survey. I looked high/low on the ARRL site and couldn't find the survey. TKS...73 MAL N7MAL BULLHEAD CITY, AZ http:
I'm not a genius when it comes to the rules but, and this is a bug BUT, it seems to me if you QSL'd the report then you are compelled to log it. If you willingly submit a log with contacts you delete
Hans I only have experience with 2 different contest logging programs. N1MM & CT. In neither of those programs do you have to enter the callsign from the exchange. There is a philosophy regarding not
Here is exactly what I said: ""callsign from the exchange""....... The very first thing you enter, in any logging program, is the callsign. That is how you determine who are you about to work and not
Years ago, 20+, I bought a parallel port CW keying cable. It has performed flawlessly in every contest using both CT & N1MM software. I am looking for a source for this cable. I've 'googled' high/low
December the 31st, New Years Eve, every year. It is called Straight Key Night(SKN). It is a humbling experience..... 73 MAL N7MAL BULLHEAD CITY, AZ http://www.n7mal.com Everyone in the world is entit
The thing that makes the Stew a unique contest is the exchange. As a matter of fact the uniqueness of every contest is the exchange whether it be Stew, or SS, or NAQP. One of the fastest ways to chea
James if your Grid Square info is wrong on QRZ why don't you fix it????? QRZ makes it extremely, and I mean extremely, easy to correct any thing wrong in their listing for you. They have new software
David he has not posted his email address on QRZ. If he had posted it there it would be there. There is a 'sort-of' new system on QRZ with all the recent updates. As an example if you wanted my email
Here are my numbers, for whatever they are worth. LOTW overall 26.2% LOTW DX contest 24.5% Overall=10years of all my logs I've been active on LOTW since it began.... 73 MAL N7MAL BULLHEAD CITY, AZ ht
I forgot to add a qualifier to my report. 90%+ of my QSO's are CW. I rarely participate in any phone contests, and my only phone DX'ing is to Xpeditions. (i.e. I have 5 CW contacts w/K5D and only 1 S
Be very careful using 'autohotkey'. It works very well and does what it says it will do. I use it during every CW contest with N1MM. I use it to program F12 to keyboard sending CW rather than the 'kl
IMHO the best motivator in the contesting world is the reward at the end for being the best op/best station. Conversely the best demoralizer is to give an 'also-ran' an award when another station fai
Richard you are assuming(ass/u/me) a lot of things to be true that are not necessarily true. You are assuming you are good enough to beat the same guy year after year. You are assuming the guy is not
I've been following this thread and many other similar threads with one and only one question: Why do you care how someone else logs you???? There is no penalty to you if the other guy copies your ex
Thanks for your comment but how could I possibly be penalized because you didn't copy the exchange correctly? Without my physically seeing your log how, and or, why could I be held responsible for yo
Paul I to would like to know the details because I don't think we are talking about the same thing. No one and I repeat NO ONE can be penalized because the other guy makes mistakes in copying the exc
This Saturday, May 16, is Armed Forces Day. There are many contesters, including me, who will be operating Special Event stations or using Special Event callsigns. We will basically be operating in '
Late Fri nite/early Sat morning the Old Woodpecker was heard for more than an hour in the CW portion of 40 meters. It really hurt the AA Contest until it quit. It was more than 40khz wide with that u
I have been humbled, but first thanks for the reports. Apparently it was heard from the Atlantic to the Pacific generally at the same signal level. While it was on it wiped the middle-level and low-l