Please make plans to attend the 2012 Orlando Contest Dinner, sponsored by the Florida Contest Group! The dinner will take place on February 10, 2012 at 6pm at the American Legion Hall at 2101 Lee Roa
Another friendly reminder to make plans to attend Dayton South at the 2012 Orlando Hamcation February 10-12, 2012. On Friday night, February 10, the FCG is proud to sponsor the third annual Orlando C
It gives me no small pleasure to announce that Yaesu has continued their tradition of supporting the Orlando Contest Dinner with a most generous donation to support the 2012 edition. I'm proud to ann
The deadline to order tickets for the FCG Orlando Contest Dinner, sponsored by Yaesu, is rapidly approaching. If you're interested in attending, you can pay by check (mail to K4LQ, CBA OK) or electro
Syl, Lost in the discussion, I think, is the difficult balancing act that the wrtc team has to do to balance out the very real geographic inequalities with the category choices that we all make when
Please join the Florida Contest Group for the 2013 Orlando Contest Dinner on February 8, 2013! $20 per person gets youdinner, free beer, and a chance to win our grand prize, a brand new FT-950 hf/6m
Speaking only for myself, I'm one of those ops who is not ready for conversational cw at 30+ wpm. I'm not really ready for it at 24wpm in the middle of a contest, if I'm being totally honest. Many op
Gentlemen and Ladies - Based on the strong positive response last year, the Florida Contest Group is pleased to bring back the 1x1 spelling bee for the 2013 Florida QSO Party, April 27 - 28. This yea
The Florida Contest Group is pleased to announce the results of the 2012 Florida QSO Party are posted at http://floridaqsoparty.org/results. There, you will find the line scores for all entrants as w
My apologies - the link in my prior post takes you to the index of the results page. The more user-friendly page is at www.floridaqsoparty.org/results. 73, Chris WF3C ________________________________
I would posit, regarding ei5di's lengthy treatise on his objection to remote contest operation, that he is leaving a rather large hole in his argument. Suppose I own a home near the bottom of a large
All - We've had considerable inquiry from participants far and wide about how to receive their certificate for working all seven 1x1 calls for last weekend's Florida QSO Party. I thought I would clar
The slope gets very slippery very quickly when you try to change rules to somehow reward "effort." I say that as a resident of the southeast US and a one-time operator at nq4i. Rick's team undoubtedl
I'm not one to typically get too bent out of shape about these draft rules, but I think this one has a lot of unintended consequences 13. Call signs logged must be the same as those exchanged over th
I can testify firsthand what is done to entries that exceed 24 hours of operation in SS. The qsos made after the 24 hours (actually 1440 minutes) are up are removed from the final score calculation w
+1 I've never been to the Caribbean and had to make the choice of whether to identify after every qso myself, but there is an easy solution that doesn't involve a bunch of hand-wringing just one func
I'll gladly stipulate that my strategy works much better in WPX or another serial number contest than in CQWW or ARRL DX. Maybe that's why the alternative method is popular; send "CL?" over any porti
If you choose a pair of widescreen monitors, consider rotating them 90 degrees so that you have a tall square desktop vs a long rectangle. Your video card will likely support the change, and I find t
The results and writeup for the 2013 Florida QSO Party have been posted to floridaqsoparty.org/results.html for your review. K4OJ says there are five days and 23 hours until the 2014 FQP. All 67 coun
Greetings fellow contesters! It gives me great pleasure to invite one and all to the 2015 Orlando Contest Dinner, sponsored by Yaesu and the Florida Contest Group! Mark your calendar for February 13,