An interesting discussion, with lots of divergent opinions.... Questionable practice: 1) Tuning the bands prior to the contest, and loading up your bandmap. You have, in essence, extended the contest
So, we're advocating that there should be no rules that can't be detected or enforced ? Hmmm, we better start with the existing Sweepstakes rules. Let's eliminate separate awards for the A, B, and Q
Good move on your part Chuck. I noticed some first-time contesters too. Perhaps 5 or 10 guys who called me and said "I'm not in the contest but wanted to give you a contact, what do you need?" It was
Author: Steve Root <steve.root@culligan4water.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:30:13 +0000
Pete, I think that it's a great idea for all of us to consider ways to encourage contest activity or make needed improvements. At the same time, we need to be careful about how those changes would af
Author: "Mark Steven Williams" <k9gx@thepoint.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:57:59 -0000
Hmm, Who could this be? Does he live in Pahrump, NV and do shows about aliens??? A number of my co-workers at Clear Channel are contesters. Maybe on of our Las Vegas guys can stop by W6OBB's place an
Author: Steve Root <steve.root@culligan4water.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:01:34 +0000
That's exactly the point. The KT0R Multi-op effort from MN (currently 4th highest claimed score) made almost 1800 QSO's in Phone SS, and NONE of them were on 10 meters. I don't want to get into a dis
Author: Steve Root <steve.root@culligan4water.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:12:26 +0000
Roger, I remember hearing you quite a bit over the weekend and you sounded fine to me. On the occasions when I've been accused of having key clicks, I always ask the guy to turn his noise blanker off
Author: Steve Root <steve.root@culligan4water.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 21:21:57 +0000
True, but I agree with Ward N0AX that the issue here is recognition. While QST did us a great disservice by curtailing their contest coverage, the Web reporting has allowed vastly improved regional
i am very saddened to see the scores drop from QST. 2 years ago when a co-worker was talking up ham radio to me, i had no clue what the scores were - they just appeared to be numbers and callsigns an
Author: Steve Root <steve.root@culligan4water.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:35:02 +0000
by region and class for the ARRL DX Tests, this is certainly a step in the right direction. This is certainly a step in the right direction, however the decision to lump Minnesota and Texas in the s
Author: Steve Root <steve.root@culligan4water.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 14:16:09 +0000
Count your blessings! I live in a first ring suburb and my noise levels are considerably higher. 73 Steve K0SR _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@conte
In view of all those disadvantages, I would say'Don't work them if it is too much trouble'. I personally encourage them. _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Con
Author: Steve Root <steve.root@culligan4water.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:07:47 +0000
Three things the QRP guys do that aren't good. Sign /QRP: That simply wastes time, and there's no time to waste when the clock is running Unnecessary repeats: Again a waste of time. Don't repeat anyt
W7TMT wrote: It seems to me that if some folks spent as much time MENTORING entry level Hams as they do BELITTLING them on this reflector there might be enough HF Contest operators around to get the
Author: Steve Root <steve.root@culligan4water.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:52:23 +0000
Probably from me. I usually use didit dit followed by a QRL ? when I'm looking for a hole. Sometimes I get a dit back. It's a lot quicker than QRL? but most guys don't know what it means. I used to
Author: Steve Root <steve.root@culligan4water.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:53:03 +0000
This scenario isn't far-fetched. It actually happens a lot if you operate from Behind the Black Hole. That's why a "QRL?" or ditdit-dit is very much appreciated and should be encouraged. 73 Steve K0
Chris: Does the rig go into transmit when this happens? I had something similar happen with my FT-1000, but it went into xmit when there was a very stron local CW signal. I found that the culprit was
FYI, Windows XP has a "compatibility" mode so you can force XP to run in a mode that emulates an earlier version of Windows. To run the program under Windows 98 compatibility mode, first create a sho
The Jan/Feb issue of NCJ published the 2002 dates for Sprints. Already some confusion has arose, here are the correct dates for the 2003 CW and SSB Sprints. SSB Sprint - 0000Z Feb 2 (Feb 1 local time