Bob, What constituency are you trying to serve by these draconian measures? This is a hobby, after all. We are trying to bring new people into it. CQWW has been around for a very, very long time with
I just wanted to point out, you can use RBN as much as you want to "self-spot" and it is perfectly within the rules. RBN will not re-spot your callsign if you stay CQing on the same QRG. However, mov
How about this scenario: I go to the Caribbean for a fun trip and to play some contesting.. I do low power, because I don't want to put a huge effort into the station. Thinking I'm not going to win,
Thanks for the clarification, Bob. Lots of this needs to be in the FAQ. Now, let's combine two scenarios. You operate a clean contest, and finish in the top three, but, you did not record. However, s
In 41 years of contesting, No DQs or claims of cheating, Bob... So it is not fear driving the questions. It's for clarity. If there was clarity, you would not have all these emails on CQ Contest. 73,
Best single-element, 160 compromise antenna I've used at many QTHs is the so-called K2KQ Double-L. (http://www.yccc.org/Articles/double_l.htm) Balanced, no radials required, vertical polarization wit
Try it out, John. I suggested the Double-L to my friend Cary, VE4EA, who lives on a postage-stamp-sized lot in Winnipeg, MB. Rather than 90 feet vertical, Cary ended up with 42 or so feet vertical. H
You can do SO2R with any auto-tune amp using an Acom Commutator. 73, Gerry W1VE _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesti
Interesting Thread. I've been contesting over 40 years. In all that time, 99% of my efforts have been at M/S or M/2 stations. For more than 30 of those years, a multi-single was a station with one ma
I have no problem with Dual CQ SO2R, Yuri. These are great advances in technique and show excellent operator skill and innovation. Time Division Multiplexing 8 operators and radios to a "single" radi
If you think I'm complaining, I'm not. You've missed my point. I don't give a hoot -- I enjoy the game, and finishing behind those 8-station guys in M/S is just fine with me. It just keeps eliminatin
Hi Yuri, No offense taken. Take the NASCAR analogy. Yes, I expect people to push the rules -- like they do in car racing. When they found certain techniques were causing completely out-of-bound resul
Not exactly, Mike. I never used the word unfair. It is what it is... I enjoy contesting. If winning was my only criteria for participating, I'd have left long ago, even though I'd had a good share of
Great ideas, Stan. Filtering the results sounds like a good idea, but would cause a hell of a lot of work for the committee and volunteers. Overlays makes sense -- in any category. Creating a new cla
Peter, it's more restrictive from a Power perspective in the UK, but frequency restrictions are far more stringent in the US! G3XYZ/W1 operating 100W SSB on 7080 will not work, and neither will VE1RM
"Please Copy..." : I did not know that Morse operators were not hams: "Ham radio operators use voice contact while Morse operators use code." Other than that, a very nice article and an impressive op
I'm not going, but want to chat with some people so I can experience the event vicariously. :-) Maybe in person next year. DMR-Plus, Brandmeister, whatever. I have a hotspot here in NA. The directori
Yep, I've read all that on the web, Ria. I can get on all three networks via my hotspot and some gateways. DMR-MARC does have bunch of gateways to DMR-Plus. I did find a lot of repeater into for port
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You have to use some imagination, Ria. Jose was speaking of the UX design, not the specific content on radio.garden. Imagine -- you could take the current RBN feed (or any spot feed), populate the da