Dear friends and contesters, ES OPEN HF Championship 2010 will take place next Saturday, April 17th, from 0500 to 0859 UTC on 40m and 80m! We invite you to participate in this nice small contest. The
We might debate for ever what is exactly anyone wants from amateur radio and which trends are making it more attractive and popular and which are dumbing down. But this is Contest reflector and what
I think you understand that by huge contribution I mean the increased rate and interest for casual ops. That has nothing to do with allowing WRTC ops to use packet. As far as we believe that un-assi
I tried to find the answer to why R36K had zero skimmer spots from our contest recording. Just once I had their CQ message caught and it was: "R36K ++++TEST--" or similar. Once call sign in the begin
In the light of recent skimmer debate I want to arrange a short poll to understand how entrants interpret the current CQWW rules (http://www.cqww.com/CQWW-Rules-2010.pdf) The question is: In your int
A reminder to those who made some QSOs in ES Open HF Championship on April 16th. Log submission deadline is on May 20th. We really appreciate your log. 140 participants have submitted their logs for
What are you trying to say Danny? You are calling me names after you were exposed with cluster cheating in CQWW and you cheated in Low Power category running KW or more? I have never tried to hide th
I wanted to express similar opinion like Igor. I am violating no law not giving out call in every QSO and in my opinion giving out call blindly in every QSO is bad operating practice. When there are
We at ES9C use ENN and T and N. And I very much appreciate others doing the same. ENN just plain saves time and causes no problem. And time is an essence when operating with 4-5 interlocked stations
Split operation in CW contest is a very useful tool. Every DX being covered by pile up should use split (of course in a sensible way). It should be encouraged to full extent. Complaining about using
I am a bit amazed on the how the main advantage of split operation is being neglected here. It is NOT for the DX to be able to manage his huge pile up better. This can surely be done simplex (like K4
I am happy to inform all friends that a project of last 4-5 years was completed during the last weekend at ES5TV KO38CS central ES QTH and a double H frame on 15m was finally erected what is probably
There is one thing has been bothering me for a while and I am sure there are some knowledgable people here who can explain this. * - Lowest dial setting for LSB Voice mode: 1843, 3603 and 7053 kHz* B