With 2007 CQWW SSB and CW results on-line here http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/cqwwhome.html I updated the History of CQWW SOAB website. Check http://www.qsl.net/ct1boh/cqwwhistory.htm W2SC reached h
The answer is indeed practice, practice, practice. But I'm not talking only about the kind of practice you would expect. I'm talking about Mental Practice and visualisation as well. Unfortunately sin
There is a trend in the new SDR radios that incorporates spectrum scopes (panadapter, waterfall, etc). This trend will change the way we operate and will impact the way we do Contesting. The new way
This last NA CW Sprint, I was at home, and decided to have a go at it in a different way. With my 25 meter long wire from the top of the 11th store building to the next building I sat on 40 with my K
Have you ever wanted to listen to a serious DX and SO2R at high rate contest effort? In 2003 CT1BOH operating as P40E from P43P's QTH worked 8181 QSOs. This is the CW world all time QSO record for a
Anacom, the Portuguese local regulatory agency for the amateur radio service, has published new legislation. There is a part in the legislation that will impact the callsign structure of Portuguese (
With CQWW SSB http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/Aug09Highlights.html and CW http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/Sept09Highlights.html results out, it is time to up-date the history of CQWW SOAB from 1948 u
I just received an e-mail from Box Cox CQWW Contest Director regarding CQWW Observer program. You can read the e-mail at the end of this post. Taking into account that I (CT1BOH) am a member of CQWW
CQWW is about populated areas, i.e USA/VE, Europe and Japan, working the DX. The problem is that Caribbean DX and Asia DX stations, will only get 2 and 1 points respectively when working their adjace
I just added a new section in my web site CONTEST CT1BOH under CQWW History. In the new section - Past Results - you can download all CQWW results article from 1948 until today. Check CONTEST CT1BOH
I had the idea for this post after reading K9LA's article "Solar Flares at ZF2RR. http://mysite.verizon.net/k9la/Solar_Flares_at_ZF2RR.pdf "(...) Dan, N9XX, was at ZF for CQ WW CW in 2000, and he did
Many contesters have been following the AO8HQ versus DA0HQ case. This was documented in the following links below http://www.radio-sport.net/iaru_scoring09a.htm http://www.radio-sport.net/iaru_scorin
When one looks at the growth of QSOs during 48 hour contests (notably maximum QSOs in the CQWW SOAB CW category in the past decades: 50's 1277 QSOs 60's 2623 QSOs 70's 4505 QSOs 80's 5970 QSO 90's 75
Congratulations to N6KT and RD3A winners of ther 2009 CQWW SOAB SSB and CW Contest respectively. With Results out in CQ Magazine page http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/cq_contests/cq_ww_dx_contest/inde
I just took notice of the new super contest station from Colombia. http://dxarc.org/ Amazing stuff. Congratulations to the HK contesters. It sure is a dream just to look at the pictures. Team work su
Congrats to Russian DX Contest cracking down cheating by requiring for top 3 station in each category to: Submit logs within 36 hours Show exact CAT frequencies for each QSO For QRP and Low Power ent
Reading N2NL blog http://www.n2nl.net/?p=375 with a description of his work to set up beverages in Guam jungle, reminded me of the work I had to do to put beverages in PY0FF downhill jungle. In Madei
I doubt anyone follows 3830 to get Contest scores anymore. Valery's R5GA site http://www.pileup.ru/ is the place to be. Recently I have asked Valery to add two functionalities: Comparing scores Below
I hope I understand correctly draft WRTC 2014 rules http://www.wrtc2014.org/contest/wrtc-rules/ point 16.2.4: *Both Radio A and Radio B are allowed to transmit. The contest is a full Multi-Operator T
I found Yuri's post http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/2012-09/msg00100.html very interesting. Yuri's suggests to the future new CQWW Contest Director four new rules that top 5 competitors in th