I was making a rather serious (given my small antennas) effort today in the Illinois QSO Party and had to deal with this intermittent noise I have here for pretty much the entire contest. It is a ras
The TO and TX prefixes immediately came to mind for me also when I saw his post. 73 John AF5CC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http:/
That is an interesting idea Chuck, but I think that 4U1UN and 4U1WB could be counted as 1 entity, because due to the DXCC rules, the physical separation between them (more than 75 miles) would them s
Technically all of the Z6 calls would be illegal since Kosovo has not been issued that ITU block of prefixes. Even if CQ does recognize them as a separate country, following the rules brought up by 4
Since we have been talking about contest DQs and the spirit of the rules and such, here is something which I have wondered about. Suppose I am operating in a SSB contest, and I set up DX Summit to on
That is a very good point. I didn't hear Puerto Rico on at all for the CQWW which I thought was unusual. I had forgotten all they had been through these past few months. Only worked one Virgin Island
Maybe just my antenna is bad, but does activity on 80m seem really low? 73 John AF5CC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.co
Hi Randy, Thanks for the SS QSO. Noise wasn't too bad here on 80, but maybe my supposedly "new and improved" antenna isn't that improved. Did work a few on 80 but it seems in years past it was much m
I am not so thrilled about such a change also. There are already way too many clubs that only exist on paper so someone can have another 1 or 12 callsigns to use. This would just promote such activit
I actually did more operating this year in the CW SS than I usually do. I got a late start-around 0300Z on Saturday night since my daughter was competing in a gymnastics meet in Oklahoma City and tha
Not exactly. In Canada that might be true, but all KH2/KH6/KH8/KH0 station send PAC even thought they are 1000s of miles from each other. Same for KP2 and KG4, lumped into the West Indies section. I
"How do you make SS fun on Sunday?" Have the NFL take that week off? 73 John AF5CC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.conte
You had me beat there. I didn't hear any VE4s the entire contest. Only worked MAR, ONS, GTA, ONE, and BC from Canada, which is really surprising. I didn't operate on 20 meters at all, though, so I am
What is the point of the ARRL stating in the rules that the check is the year first licensed, if they really don't care what you send? 73 John AF5CC _______________________________________________ CQ
I agree completely with you and Ria. What I don't agree with are those who purposely do not follow this rule for one reason or another-sending a number that they know isn't the year that they were fi
In terms of the check, yes, it can be hard at times to remember what year it was or to know which operators year to use, but does it bother anyone else when some people on this reflector mention that
"And MOST importantly look at the checks in the last SS." We can't do that since people can send whatever number they want. Maybe lots of new hams are running the CWSS but they send checks in the 50s
Steve, Are any of these recordings available on-line? They would be pretty neat to hear. The first contest I ever participated in (other than field day) was the 1981 November Sweepstakes. I was a nov
I am not trolling. As far as I know, using prefills from a database isn't explicitly against the rules, where the rules say that you must copy all of the QSO information. If you use some of that info
Ria, Did you get to experience dupe sheets? That was a totally different world, but it was fun to try and play dupe sheet blackout-see how many of the squares you can fill. I don't miss the paper log