Hi Jim.. You may have missed rule #2 in my short list..It's the one that provides nice incentive to work Out of state stations.. Based upon my experience, most of the QP mobile ops run mobile to give
Understood Jim.... I forgot about one more change we made. We added one more hour to the end of our contest. I plan to mention to mobiles stations make sure that they meet our west coast guests at th
There were 700 players in the 1978 Novice Roundup. I finished first in South Carolina and 62nd place in the US. I'm curious to know if any y'all who beat me are still contesting.... Here's the list..
Cool comments Jeff and Joe... I find it enjoyable to look back on the 'spark' that led to an interest in contesting. I agree with Joe... Let's bring back the 1 week NR format...... . In the NR (age 1
HI Jim, Thanks for sharing your very interesting NR experience. We're giving away a BBQ dinner for our upcoming contest...NR was giving away a transmitter. And thanks for the TQP contact yesterday. 7
In just about every contest I have the following QSO.... I'm running S&P and I call a "run" station.. WN4AFP, WN4AFP N4AF 599 etc. Neg WN4AFP WN4AFP N4FP 599 etc Neg WN4AFP WN4AFP N4UFP 599 etc no no
Does the robot like VE3C2C??? Dave WN4AFP -- Dave Edmonds PK Ministry Webs 864.288.6678 dave@pkministrywebs.com www.pkministrywebs.com _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest maili
In a recent November SS, I had a thought of running QRP or "Q" during the contest... So I started working the contest and made 20-25 Qs. At this point, I realized that I made a mistake in my Preceden
I would like to invite all South Carolina contesters to the Swamp Fox Contest Group's annual lunch/training meeting on January 28, 2018 at 3 pm at the Lizard's Thicket in Lexington, SC. We will be re
Announcing the 2nd Annual Carolina Weekend! The SCQP on Saturday and the NCQP on Sunday... 21 hours of contesting fun! We're doing all we can to put 146 counties on the air during the weekend. SCQP -
I ll be using the call WN4AFP...no need to play 'pick a call'. I hope to work all of y'all in the contest. 73s Dave WN4AFP _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-C
IMO... to many new operators, CW is just another digital mode... Since it's possible for someone to use software to copy CW without knowing the code, they could use the codereader sw in the SS contes
The "Opt-out" certificate feature gives the operator the ability to make the choice. This is the best way to solve the 'who gets a certificate' issue. With the ARRL searchable scores database, it's n
Many have mentioned about how important receiving a certificate in the mail early in our contesting career. Guess what ... the winners of the ARRL Rookie Roundup are only provided with digital e-mail
I work just about every QSO party on the planet. I use N3FJP and it handle county lines for mobiles very well. Ive heard many times that there arent mobiles inthe California QP. One reason is that co
If county lines are permitted, there will be solo mobile ops that would prefer running a county line instead of having to run one then find a spot to run the adjacent county. Mobiles can find the cou
Congrats John! So any chance of adding some new rules/categories? Ideas below... - Mobile category (additional points for mobile to mobile contacts. Allow mobiles to run a zone, country or continent
During 13 colonies, i just sent my call. K2L. Even without the cq. -- Dave Edmonds Dave@PKMinistryWebs.com _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contestin
It is... but we couldn't continue in ham radio without it! Dave WN4AFP -- Dave Edmonds PK Ministry Webs 864.288.6678 dave@pkministrywebs.com www.pkministrywebs.com ___________________________________
This is an interesting thread... SO1R, SO1V, SO2R, 2BSIQ, SO2V and others... Operating Unassisted... They're just operating one or more modes/bands, but never transmitting at the same time on two dif