Yes, I'm an ARRL member but unlike you people in the US there is no director to whom I can write to express my view. I am a member solely in order to see contest results in QST, so with the change, w
I don't know who posted this originally, I just read it cross-posted to cq-contest. The articles were in fact by Peter Martin, G3PDM. My favourite run rig for CW contests is my Ten-Tec Omni D which
Not quite in the league of the Contest Cookbook, but the RSGB Contest Guide was written several years ago by Gary G4iFB. It is aimed at the beginner and introduces them to RSGB HF contests as well as
Not sure what the problem is Paul. The EU Sprint rules have not been changed since at least 1996, so why the need for an update? SD has been updated many times since 1996 and that's great. But it is
With great apologies, there is an error on the EU sprint web page. The Sprints start at 1500z and finish at 1859z. The times are given wrongly on the and we are arranging to get this changed asap. Da
This year, with the aim of encouraging new contesters, RSGB has introduced a series of short contests on weekday evenings based around club competition - the more members a club gets to come on the a
calling CQ (or had just sent TU + his call), and didn't . . . . . . . ends his transmission with his callsign. There is NO recognize whether you have the opportunity to reply to a CQ your callsign. S
You're suggesting that so long as the same ERP is achieved that's fine, regardless of whether it's done legally or illegally. I don't personally agree with that point of view but in any case, the guy
It was used in the Internet Sprint last night, at least for the name part. Good 20m propagation enabled me to make 127 Qs - a lot of fun! As far as I know, the concept was first introduced by Dennis
The number of JA hams has declined from its peak but I think the decline in JA contesters is sharper. When we ran GB50 from Windsor Castle, we were amazed how very many JAs we worked. Many more than
Especially if you can't raise the tower above the present 35ft, why not consider a quad? They work well at relatively low height, and a 2el quad has about the same gain as a 3el yagi (and much more g
Message text written by KI9A war? I remember hearing a KV4 station on 40m twenty or so years ago calling "CQ free world, no communists" so I called him and said that wasn't the ham spirit. He came ba
I disagree that it was successful. A lot of us stopped entering the WAE contest when DARC took this step. Packet assistance is fundamentally different from single operator. You're benefitting from hu
There's another possibility. The CQWW checkers are so very busy working to get the results out, that they really don't need this sort of QRM. However, now that you have brought this to everyone's att
f1A93C913438 Sender: owner-cq-contest@contesting.com Precedence: bulk X-List-Info: http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/cq-contest X-Sponsor: W4AN, KM3T, N5KO & AD1C For as long as I can remember, the RSGB
f3CL3xW16763 Sender: owner-cq-contest@contesting.com Precedence: bulk X-List-Info: http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/cq-contest X-Sponsor: W4AN, KM3T, N5KO & AD1C A reminder that the Eu Sprint contests h
Here's another little operating quirk that I don't like at all, for similar reasons that some object to cut numbers. In the last two weekend's contests where serial numbers are exchanged, a lot of pe
A reminder that tomorrow (Saturday) is the first Eu sprint contest of 1999. The full rules follow. Hope to see you in the contest! 73, Dave G4BUO -- EU SPRINT 1999 The EU Sprint Gang hereby invites y
DAA26362 Sender: owner-cq-contest@contesting.com Precedence: bulk X-List-Info: http://www.contesting.com/cq-contest-faq.html X-Sponsor: W4AN, KM3T, N5KO & AD1C The points raised by Dave and Randy abo