OK Spider - except this "fly" is not going to play that game. We were discussing SO2R - not Skimmers. Skimmer locates, decodes, and identifies callsigns. The operator does nothing in that process (as
John, The point where it stops is where we re-focus on what it means to be a single operator, and what he does - alone. He *operates* his radio(s) alone. No biological or electronic "operating" help
Jim, While the "assistance" you refer to is real and conceivably results in the unassisted operator getting more callers, it is indirect to the unassisted operator as opposed to his receiving direct
Hans' colorful writing below describes the decoder situation very well. While some like EI5DI oppose any amount of CW decoding, the reality is that anyone using a single channel decoder is not doing
While it is true that operating from a DX location and suffering from jet lag is indeed a factor that one needs to consider, the difficulty in assembling such a remote station and the inherent techni
Just returned from the Friedrichshafen, Germany hamfest and saw many top European and global contesters there. Great show, beautiful town - very good place to go if you want to bring the XYL or signi
I would have to disagree on this and support KR2Q's suggestion. This forum is the appropriate peer group - we're nearly 100% amateur radio contesters. In contrast, publishing the callsign of these sc
Simply: It's not a "reward". It's a matter of the contest sponsor taking the least painful route to get as many properly formatted logs as possible into the system in order to do as comprehensive and
ZL2TZE asked: Is there a problem within the Logging Software used to produce these logs or is it the hand written logs causing problems or the wrong templates ? Generally, no. The major contest softw
I often find myself in this same position - that is, to see something from the complete opposite perspective. In this case, the biggest, most popular, and (I think) longest running ham radio contest
W2UP's presumption is incorrect. This rule states that no one should use the information from those or any other databases to make changes to the contest log after the contest has ended. It goes no f
Kelly, I think some of this is much more practical and the amount of potential difficulty may exceed "big whoop" status. The key is how to identify which of these new sections one is in. How likely i
Before K3EST resigned, he reported to the CQWW committee that the "missing" scores were inadvertently left out of the results, but both of them were to be listed as Checklogs. There is nothing else t
Charly, $700 seems excessive; however, shipping something that long to Thailand will be expensive no matter what. expect to pay for the shipping alone for their International Economy service. Someone
In a case like this, what should be done is that the contest entrant (who knows what the proper exchange should be) should educate the person giving the incorrect exchange that they should be sending
Unless you switched to LSB when you went to 14150, your receiver was receiving for a ~3 kHz bandwidth above the frequency on your dial. So, when you're on 14149 (for example) your ~3 KHz receiver ban
Jim, Can you be a little more specific? Your question begs numerous questions. de W5OV In the last CQ WW DX tests there were some substantial rules changes designed to keep us all honest. It isn't cl
While I appreciate Ed's making the distinction that specific CQWW DX rules don't directly apply to the RTTY contest, I think that one can presume that the principles set out in those rules can apply
Each contest has its own rules. Do you expect all contests to be the same? Why? Which contest are you talking about when you say "a contest's rules say nothing about Assisted operation"? Both of the
I would tend to agree with Pete, but I don't think that anyone is being "unfairly penalized" for using assistance. Also, aside from a few traditionalists who don't like packet, there's not a whole lo