Contesters who would like to announce their planned operations from DX locations can do so now for the following future contests: CQWW WPX Contest, CW (May 24-25, 2008) RSGB IOTA Contest (July 26-27,
Given my less than modest antenna situation I can only dream of rates anywhere near this from my home station, but I too have been playing with Morse Runner a lot recently. I have to agree with Barry
[...] [...] Interesting problem for the S&P op. If I remember correctly this issue was gnawed upon a year or three back with strong opinions expressed on both sides. My immediate reaction is to say,
Yes, this occurred to me later after I had already sent the message. I guess the bottom line is that if the S&P station consistently sends the running station's call sign he's going to make one set o
For anyone preferring an HTML (rather than PDF) version of the rules, this too is available at: http://www.cqwpxrtty.com/rules.htm 73, Bill/NG3K _______________________________________________ CQ-Con
"As many contesters do, we check out your useful website for potential DXpeditions. However, anyone can look at previous contest results to discover who might be a potential candidate for an observer
Just to clarify, I really don't try to exclude "small time operations" from my contest announcement lists. What I'm trying to avoid is having to process and list a large number of SO operations from
All true, and it's hard to imagine a logging program that would put a "Latin o with a stroke" where an ASCII zero belongs. Problems start when Web page creators (and others) start using "Latin Letter
According to Skimmer, I was CQing at an average speed of 25 WPM during Sweepstakes. Most callers answered at or near my calling speed. But, a not insignificant subset responded nearer 35 WPM, includi
Perhaps the best way to handle this problem would be to have contest logging software generate a small random offset to the spotted frequency when switching the user's transmitter to a spotted QRG. 7
Pete, no doubt it's easy enough for the calling operator to implement the tweak on the fly. But, the benefit for having it occur automatically would be to the CQing station who would be less likely t