This probably should be something for the contest committee to address. Due to politics and technology, contesting is changing. This is inevitable. Nevertheless, there are more fundamental questions
K2DB, I don?t know the rules of the BARTG contest. But, on principle, I say that yes -- you should have to walk, swim, levitate, fly, or whatever to operate from your station. There are some physical
My view was that "equipment" included anything used to convert a signal into what is heard by operator?s ear, or converted the operator?s volitional acts (e.g. taps, finger twitches, or spoken words)
Someone said that this is "absurd." Agreed. The status of DC is absurd for many reasons. Many of them are intertwined with our nation's history. It is a city of legal and political exceptions, and ex
Wouldn?t the "free square" approach be giving ops a mult (or four) for bands that they have never operated on, and never needed to even try to make Qs with others, thereby risking 0-pointers? 73, Dav
For what it is worth, I read this list on the web, via bloglines.com, which creates an RSS feed of new messages. It LOOKS like a forum, but it also provides me with access on my cellphone or on any c
The ARRL DX SSB results, together with commentary and log-checking reports are out and on the league's website. 73, Dave/KA1NCN Dave@KA1N.CN . _______________________________________________ CQ-Conte
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Bill, Statements along the lines of "There is what the law says and what people want it to mean" are frequent, but at bottom they simply mean "I think the law is X." It would be better to simply say,
For general interest, there are a number of VK#xxxx calls out there, working us in contests. So don?t be surprised. See http://www.geocities.com/vk3hjv/wafle.html . __________________________________
W6WRT: If you were hauled into court for doing 90 in a 65 zone and you say to the judge "a cop told me it was ok", do you think the judge will find you not guilty? Even if the cop testified that yes,
As fascinating as the cheating discussion is (and it could only be better, if there were gratuitous naming of names and calls as well as legal threats), as someone with a passing interest in game the
I have a slightly different perspective. Winners *need* second-rate operators and newbies. Even people that use their last two and spell out the name with double phonetics count for points (usually).
Why disqualify the big gun? Every station that works him as the opportunity to demand a signal report. In fact, they have the duty! Yet, in listening to a few stations giving serial numbers only this
Rex and John, I appreciate the comments. Here are my responses: John, What is ?objective? about signal strength is that it is based upon whatever a signal meter reads. But, although perceptions of th
K0HB: Just as the big gun has a duty to send a signal report. DQ both of them for falsifying their log. KA1NCN: The recipient would only have a single bad contact for every QSO s/he makes with someon
What is a ?waste? in a contest is a matter of perspective. Is QTC in WAE a waste? Is the zone in CQWW a waste? Is the callsign a waste given that some people seem to be getting the call off of packet
Folks... some of you have commented to me (on the list and privately) that I am misunderstanding what the ?S? in an RSt means. My initial inclination was that it was whatever the signal strength mete
So does ?QRP? now mean 100 watts? After all, it probably doesn?t give much of an advantage to an experienced operator with a superlative station?. Also (to combined multiple controversies into one),
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