I've been doing the WPX seriously for about 4 years now. I'm not sure I had a dog in this fight until now. With a 60 foot crankup tower with a tribander and a few wires, I've managed to get into the
The sign of a good compromise is one in which no one is happy. I suggest putting skimmer in the assisted category. I agree, it is very cool technology. It just doesn't encourage the building of radio
Tom, A sunspot number of 12 correlates to only 2 small sunspots. This is due to a technicality in how sunspots are "grouped" when they are counted. 73 - Guy, N7ZG ____________________________________
I suspect you haven't read the e-mails. I think the debate has been rather thoughtful and healthy for the sport. If I didn't, I would probably opt out of the mailing list. A choice open to all of us
Bob, SO2R is about a human being developing the skills to decode two audio streams. One in each ear. It is hard to learn and if done incorrectly will actually reduce your score. This is proven fact a
Give SO2R a try. One will quickly find out that it is definitely NOT an automated second operator. Learning to decode two separate audio streams would be trivial for the technology behind skimmer. It
Hi Jack, I haven't been at this long enough to know what contesting was like before computers. I suspect the debate forum wasn't an Internet hosted mailing list. Maybe folks actually debated those is
Has anyone received their K3 shipment from Elecraft recently? What date did it arrive and on what date was it ordered? 73 - Guy, N7ZG _________________________________________________________________
I've had the opportunity to operate the WAE SSB contest last Sept. David's station is top notch and he is a great guy to get to know if you haven't had the chance to meet him already. Thanks again Da
S53M's signal was huge here in western Washington state. I was running 50W into a whimpy wire for 40M and worked him on the first call, so ostensibly he hears well too. 73 - Guy, N7ZG _______________
80/160m fullsize yagis on the 100m> tower at Arkala.> > 73> Peter > > --Original Message--> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of> timo.korh
Has anyone loaded all of the CQWWCW logs into a single file? Please reply directly to me off list. Thanks and 73, Guy, N7ZG _________________________________________________________________ Bing brin
Fellow contesters, I've written a Perl script to parse, load, consolidate, normalize and scrub the log data for CQWW CW 2006-2008. The data is currently in MS-Access in two tables. One contains all t
I read the petition and I agree with it 100%. We need contest free zones. Maybe there is an elmer out there that can show them the button that says 18 mHz. 73, Guy N7ZG ______________________________
Starting this year, I've noticed that the CQWW log submission page includes category of entry and claimed score. 3830 is nicer with the band breakdowns, soapbox, etc., but this should do it. 73, Guy
Hi Felipe, For me the CQWW is my favorite. It's like a big worldwide party that lasts 48 hours and is a great opportunity to work DX (no, I don't want to work US stations as it would change the chara
Sure. BTW, I agree with David. We should discuss this with the hope that there is some sort of solution that no one else may have thought of. Perhaps there is some magic statistical formula that can
There has been quite a bit of discussion about CQWW scoring. If the community finds it helpful, here is a database containing 3 years of the CQWW CW contest (2006-2008). It contains all of the submit
It was done with Access 2007. The file was zipped as well. If need be, I can export the 2 tables to text files and re-compress. 73, Guy N7ZG __________________________________________________________
Jim/Prasad, I would be happy to upload the older file format, but alas it is over the 200MB file size limit of 4shared.com even compressed. If someone out there can provide a public share, FTP locati