Good morning all, I'd like to shed some light on the IARU HF Championship callsign debate, put forth the final action plan and have us move on. Several years ago, the World Wide Radio Operators Found
All, I am pleased to announce that the Frankford Radio Club has made a $1,000 donation to the World Wide Radio Operators Foundation. In a unanimous decision by the FRC's Board of Directors, this cont
The facts are that the HS0ZCW log in 2013 worked 679 QSOs and logged 4 uniques (0.6%). The E2E log from that same year had 1546 QSOs and logged 39 uniques or 2.5%. So, what's the issue here? There ar
All, I am pleased to announce that the Frankford Radio Club (FRC) has made a *second* donation of $1,000 to the World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF). In a unanimous decision by the FRC's Boa
All, In case you missed it, this was just posted on CQWW.com. http://cqww.com/blog/k5zd-stepping-down-as-director-of-cq-ww-contest/ Randy deserves our gratitude for a job well done over the past few
OK, gents...I thought I would assist you by providing an executive summary of our recent discussions: 1) Some radios have clix. 2) Some are better than others. 3) Those that use clix to their advanta
Does anyone other than perhaps 0.000000000001% of the readers on this channel actually think that a contest committee member's QTH has anything to do with how the contest is managed? I mean, really?
Hi Steve, In response to your request for an example: UT5UGR http://cqww.com/blog/ut5ugr-log-padding-in-cq-ww/ Speaking purely as a private citizen, I can assure you that no log checking group has ac
FWIW, I offer some observations as one of your humble moderators: 1) Contesting is supposed to be fun. The recent thread(s) on this channel are anything but that. We have largely become a group of me
Fellow contesters, I'm pleased to make a major funding announcement on behalf of the World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF) this afternoon. A press release outlining the details follows. 73, J
Fellow contesters, I'm pleased to make a major funding announcement on behalf of the World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF) this afternoon. A press release outlining the details follows. 73, J
As co-moderator of this list, I was recently asked by someone (not a NCCC member) to post the following statement in response to some of the recent actions/proposals by the ARRL Board of Directors. P
All, Just to be clear, I ask that we keep this discussion to facts and/or valuable sources of information. Posting messages with personal opinions about what may or may not have happened here and the
All, I realize that the recent wave of postings to this reflector regarding the actions of the ARRL Board of Directors has been especially tedious for our non-USA subscribers. However, many of the is
OK, everyone -- at last count that makes 1,000,004 posts on the subject of Scott's recordings and CQ's administrative decision. He choose to put his situation out there and take the risk that comes f
Let's not forget about a particularly favorite exchange addition of mine: "Please copy..." It's as if your mama taught proper social graces by saying, "If you're not polite with these contesters, the
Good morning everyone! I'm writing to offer a huge thank-you to the Frankford Radio Club for their recent donation of $1000 to the World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF). As you may know, WWRO
Hi Barry (and everyone)! I'm happy to answer your questions about moderation of this list. It's probably time to do that anyway. For the moment, I am the single moderator of CQ-Contest. In the past,
Good morning! As you may be aware, it was previously announced by CQ that all results for the 2017 CQ World Wide DX Contest would be re-scored based on the return to the usual and accepted methodolog
Hi Ken, Common convention is that duplicate QSOs are never penalized but simply ignored in the course of checking a log. For the CW contest, this policy was changed to where duplicates not appearing