I thought KQ2M put it very well on the WRTC2002 reflector: "I personally think that the WRTC committee should use their wildcard selection criteria for ALL the participants, ensuring that everyone me
I disagree Jim. I entered a couple of IARU Contests from Colorado (finishing 2nd twice to K1TO!) and it is much more than a domestic contest. You must understand worldwide propagation very well since
Exactly why CCF wants 5 East and 5 West team captains! 73, Bill W4ZV -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contesting.com
f4UJvpW14244 Sender: owner-cq-contest@contesting.com Precedence: bulk X-List-Info: http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/cq-contest X-Sponsor: W4AN, KM3T, N5KO & AD1C Gary W0TM has a good CT checklist on his
Does anyone have a copy of this and a little time to do some research for me? K1ZM and I are working on a project as part of ARRL's 160 Bandplan Committee and we need to document increased activity o
Hello All! Thought you might be intersted to see some trends on 160 activity which I discovered while doing some research for K1ZM and the ARRL 160 Bandplan Committee. Many thanks to Ivo 5B4ADA who d
Hello Again! OOPS...I made a mistake! 1995 should be 1299...not 2040. K1ZM's record was set in 1995 with 470 QSO's so 2040 did not look out of line for 5 MM's. Thought you might be intersted to see s
GW3NJW: Clive, it is really not that bad! Cut and paste the template on the Webpage above into your E-mail body and then follow the "<tag>" page definitions and enter your own info (after deleting ex
VE6YP: From the AA Webpage instructions: "For NA, TR-log or any other kinds of logging software users, please pay attention just like CT users. <LOGSHEET TYPE=CT> name of logging software. ex. CT ,TR
WRTC resumes available at: http://www.contesting.com/wrtc2002/list (click on call) CQWW CW UBN's available at: http://cqww.com/logs/ (access code required...the one you got when you submitted your lo
Does anyone recall the factor you multiply keying speed by to get the approximate bandwidth of keyed CW? I seem to recall it is 4 (i.e. 40 WPM = 160 Hz) but am not sure. 73, Bill W4ZV -- CQ-Contest o
"Does anyone recall the factor you multiply keying speed by to get the approximate bandwidth of keyed CW?" K2XA reminded me that this was previously a question in the ARRL License Manual. I checked m
http://www.dxlc.com/solar/solcycle.html Looks like flux in the range of 130 and A index around 10-15 for the CQWW, assuming we have the same conditons 27 days from now. See the previous Webpage and a
Oops, I pasted the wrong URL! This is the correct one: http://www.dxlc.com/solar/index.html 73, Bill W4ZV -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-cont
"In fact, it seems that the station working the QRPer should be given a bonus, too, not just the QRPer." Very true! I would argue that the station RECEIVING a QRP exchange on 160 deserves more points
multiplier, or continue to participate in my normal way in the S&P mode? W7's are literally a dime a dozen and I've always thought that the WPX offered myself and others a way to be popular, if only
I just uploaded ~37K of contest QSO's to eQSL for the past few years and see no major security problems with the way eQSL is implemented. In fact, it is actually more strict than I would be if I were
Today I received my plaque for the 2000 CQ WPX SSB which I only decided to sponsor last June...AFTER the 2000 results were published (since it represented the new USA record for SOSB10). Steve N8BJQ
I lived about 30 miles due East of John on the Eastern edge of the Rocky Mtn foothills. From 1980 until 1993, I had two towers which were the tallest structures for miles around (25G with a KT-34XA a