Hello... We've received 212 logs for the SCQP so far. The log submission deadline is March 27th. I just added the I just added the "2017 Received Logs" page to the SCQP website at www.scqso.com If yo
The 5 day log submission requirement makes sending in a log difficult. There have times when I've had to hand log due to problems with sw etc... Converting the log to a 'readable' format, ie cabrillo
HI Everone... I'm enjoying this thread....I share Tom's view... i manage the SCQP contest scoring and our goal is to complete the scoring as soon as possible... As Tom mentioned, we receive cabrillo
I think the best solution is to allow self-spotting without conditions for all "assisted' categories. I agree with Mike that it's impossible to control any station from being spotted by another stati
Great comments... How about this scenario..... I start working the contest without a recording knowing that I would not be able to give it a 'competitive' effort due to the fact that my wife and I ar
Bob, Thanks for giving the participants more insight into what's happening behind the 'closed doors' of the contest. I'm an admin for the SCQP and I can identify with your philosophy etc. In early 20
I remember receiving my first "First Place SC" award in the 1978 Novice Roundup.... One of my competitors was Trey WN4KKN (overall standings). The NR was the perfect format kids...the rookie roundup
HI Everyone.... I received a beautiful plaque from the 2016 NYQP today... I challenge all of you guys to shoot for this one in the 2017 event... Special thanks to the Rochester DX Association for spo
After being off the air for many years, my first contest was in 2013. I was thrilled when I thought that i worked China BY2T during the event... I later found it that it was 6Y2T. I was glad to work
The SCQP results are now available on our website at www.scqso.com Thanks to all of y'all who participated! 73s Dave WN4AFP SCQP Team Leader _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest
I agree 100% with Tree. I was away from contesting for many years and returned in 2013. One of the things I noticed was the use of pre-fills in contests. In Chapter 1 of my ham career, contest ops co
HI Bart, I read through the ARRL contest changes and one change related to my normal contest operation. *"Logged frequency*: HF contest entries competing for awards as category leaders *are encourage
The top 25 players (according to 3830scores.com) in the NAQP CW contest were running SO2R. Congrats to N9NB a SO1R op who broke the chain of SO2R scores.. The concern I saw was that there were no SO1
Hi Steve, Excellent numbers in NAQP! Yes this contest is perfect for SO2R. I think that SO2R ops are amazing and it should be used and enjoyed. 73s Dave AFP -- Dave Edmonds PK Ministry Webs 864.288.6
Thanks Bob... I've never had scores anywhere near your excellent NAQP scores, but I still love to compete as I can with anyone... SO1R, SO2R or SO3V etc... They usually are up there on the top, but o
I could not agree more with Kelly's comment about operator skills. I wasn't active when the major contests created the assisted category. Why was it added? (If Al Gore was a ham, he would have probab
Thanks Bruce! This is an excellent addition to the 3830scores.com contest results... Now we can visually compare the SO1R and SO2R... 73s Dave WN4AFP -- Dave Edmonds PK Ministry Webs 864.288.6678 dav
Agree Kelly.... There's nothing worse than replying to a SO2R "run" who would rather work a few more stations on the "busier" band before responding to your call...and you know that they can hear you
When we redesigned the South Carolina QSO Party in 2015, we made many changes, but there were two that were important to increased activity and excitement. 1. Allowed in-state stations to work SC cou