Well maybe for you and the majority of the world but this year the CQ WW SSB contest will finally be 48 hours for those of us that live in the DST disadvantaged world. I bet with that extra hour I wi
The LOTW what contest? I think you will find that the weekend of Oct 27th will be very good for working DX. -- George Fremin III - K5TR geoiii@kkn.net http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr _______________________
What contest? You are correct, you should enter as multi-single. He is wrong, not everyone does it. Most people follow the rules of most contests. If this contest really does not talk about packet at
I agree that this is very likely. As is the chance that someone will look at the cluster for you and tell you where the section you need is on the bands. This is why you will never hear me call a CQ
Ahhh... well QSOs before 21z will not be counted. Pretty simple really. -- George Fremin III - K5TR geoiii@kkn.net http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest
I have done this and I have had interference between the two wireless keyboard/mouse systems on the same desk. It could usually be solved by moving the receiver closer to it's keyboard - but not alwa
My connection the Internet for the last 5 years has been via a 2.4Ghz and now a 5Ghz WIFI link. The first hop is about 5 miles. I have not really had any RF issues with interference form the HF/VHF/U
There are moments when I feel like this is the solution but most of the time I do not feel this way. I think there are very few people whom I compeate against that are cheating with packet or otherwi
I do not think it is fear. It is that I do not find it as much fun to do the contest as assisted and if everyone is in the assisted category than I have to make the choice of: - Run packet and not ha
I think recording contests can be useful. It is fairly easy to do - I have been doing it for years. I almost never go back and listen to much or any of the recordings of my contests. I already heard
Maybe I am just an optimist or naive but I do not see this as "most cheat" - I think it is more of a case of there are some people cheating. Since most of us are not getting paid to do these radio co
I am not sure I care anymore if there is an single op two radio (SO2R) category or some separate listing or whatever someone wants to see. I tend to lean towards not having an SO2R category. One thin
I think that is correct - you need to make the rule based on the way it is used. Not how the information is exchanged. I see several in this thread getting lost in is is "packet" or is it "internet".
I think this statement sums it up for me. I love doing radio contests. The magic of this is the wireless part. The part that is subject to the wrath of the solar cycle and the ionosphere. The part wh
This should work. At 100 watts it should be pretty easy to do with decent bandpass filters and good radios. It is harder with 1500 watts. Back when I was still a fairly new ham I had a Gem Quad with
Unless I know I am loud, and he does not have many stations calling I have generally decided that the best course of action is to send only my callsign again until I hear him send it correctly. Never
It happened to me - more than once. I really liked using Kilowatt Five Texas Radio And I was doing that - and then I got some UBN/LCR reports back that showed the errors that others were making with
Why? I think open logs are a good thing. -- George Fremin III - K5TR geoiii@kkn.net http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contest
Was it ever 48 hours? Not since I have been a contester - but I will have to defer to Jim on this point. I like the fact that we have 48 hour contests. I do not want the CQ WW or the ARRL DX or other
Works for me. I was more than happy to work many stations this past weekend that gave me reports other than 59 - and I logged everyone of them just as they gave it to me. -- George Fremin III - K5TR