Pete, If your concern is protecting the input of the SDR from overload, you should use one of these (the model 196): http://www.iceradioproducts.com/reconly.html#rflimiter There's at least one ICE de
Tor, "the general idea is to explore uses of SDR technology for unassisted SO2R cw contesting". You said "unassisted" - is that a typo? "-a SDR panadapter is integrated into the bandmap for showing d
Is this really a big issue? How many CW contest entrants fit this description? I suspect that it is a small minority if there are any at all. I think that for discussion purposes, the likely very sma
K1TTT said: "If it says by ear, they won't use waterfalls or lights or vibrators.... they just won't participate, and I think we do want everyone to participate." Of course everyone wants everyone to
Rex, The stats about the entire population are interesting, but how many of these fine people actually want to operate in the NAQP? Seriously - I suspect that we're in the single digits if it's even
Frank, As long as your entry category permits more than one signal on the air at the same time, passing of multipliers is one of the most effective methods of increasing multiplier counts. For exampl
Did you know that there is a group of amateurs who are spotting & storing PSK stations -- and harvesting the calls, and finding their email addresses? I didn't... But if someone is going to take the
This clearly is addressing remote receiving sites as being forbidden. There's no language barrier. Look at what it says - not what it doesn't say. They're talking about the numerous web-accessible re
Yes. This is called "Multi-Two" or "Multi-Operator, Two Transmitter". Here's what you "mist" (sic): 2.3.2.Multioperator, Two Transmitter: 2.3.2.1.A maximum of two transmitted signals at any given tim
Maarten, (sic) means I'm quoting your original spelling - which was not intended to be critical - I actually enjoy such variations of interpretations from those who do not speak English as their firs
Hans, If you're not in the top 3 in the RDXC, what concern are the rules that govern those 3 guys to you? When I enter a contest, the only things I concern myself with are 1) what time does it start
Hans set the stage for this discussion where he said that he's not one of the top 3 that special rules do apply to in the RDXC contest and yet that he's bothered by the rules that don't apply to him.
Hans, In your example, there's nothing ethically wrong. There have been cases, however, where a competitive entrant in the Single Op *Unassisted* category has found that he did not win, saw that ther
Many years ago, primarily on 2m FM repeaters, jamming and "kerchunking" was common. Like these packet masqueraders, these sick, demented people were looking for attention. The cure then was to ignore
Barry, Google "Grid Square Map" and you can select many maps that make grid location very easy. Icom makes a nice PDF one available here: http://www.icomamerica.com/en/downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?
As we've seen in the past, and once again here, you can't always believe what you read or have heard about. (Quote) "Sounds like the rumor mill is way ahead of the actual facts!" Green told radio-spo
Rich, While we can have respect for the effort the CAC makes, they literally have no ability to do anything other than to advise the BoD (and appointed committees). Their internal discussions are com
Just to clear the "air" a bit on this, there are many logs that have no qsos removed and the claimed scores remain unchanged. A quick look shows: Claimed and Call Final Q N6ML 518 DP4M 505 LY3CY 495
Ron, It might be helpful if you were to isolate the discussion of "erosion of trust" from your claim that public logs or UBN reports are a "privacy issue". You have claimed the latter for a long time
Why shouldn't they be public document? Seriously! 73, Bob W5OV _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/li