Barry, FCC Part 97 requires that the YO operator MUST sign indicating the location in the U.S., you are correct. Otherwise, if signing W2/ (or whatever), it probably would have been perfectly legal u
Michael -- FCC Radio Amateur Rules, Part 97.107. "... No citizen of the United States or person holding an FCC amateur operator/primary station license grant is eligible for the reciprocal operating
Congratulations for making the change. This measurably enhances the prestige of the WRTC2018 organization and better balances the qualification factors. 73, Dave K3ZJ ________________________________
The oddity to this contest is that unlike all ARRL and CQ contests in which states are multipliers, for NAQP the District of Columbia (DC) uniquely is counted as Maryland although it isn't in Marylan
Professional software equivalents to HFTA include consideration of buildings as well as geography, but seem to be limited to line-of-site considerations at 30 MHz and up. One example widely used is E
HS stations seem to be piling up QSOs. As of 12 hours ago 5 HS stations were reported as having worked EP6T on 8 or more band slots: HS0ZDX - 14; E21EIC - 11; HS0ZEE - 11; HS0ZIV - 10; E20NKB - 8. HS
Do you think that the underlying problem may not be remote operation, but that DXCC allows counting all contacts from anywhere in the same country instead of within a geographic area? It has been thi
Too bad D.C. is incorrectly counted as MD in the rules. Dave K3ZJ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman
Paul, Exactly right! Sections as multipliers in SS are consistent, but NAQP and Sprint multipliers are inconsistent, illogical, and appear based merely upon an individual's (or individuals') whims th
W1AW/3 (@K3VOA), N8HM, W3HAC, KE3X, W3DQ & NN3RP all were on from D.C. in the 2014 ten meter contest. But you would have to know the callsigns to recognize which "MD" stations were located in D.C. fo
Hi Jim, It isn't surprising that you failed to work every station that was on in a contest -- I never have either! Please go through your 110,000 QSOs again looking for some of the other multipliers.
OK, let's focus on NAQP as you suggest. You are, after all, one of the NAQP managers. In late 2010 or early 2011 W3DQ and others asked the NAQP managers to start recognizing that DC is not part of MD
Bill, Thanks for the clarification. Certainly the logging programs should score each contest correctly. The problem may be that, to my knowledge, the NAQP and NCJ Sprints are unique in counting state
Just so that there is no confusion: K4VV, (operated M/M under the callsign K3TN in ARRL CW) is a Virginia station built by former PVRC president K4VV and managed by his good friend W0YR. It is not on
Last sentence of first paragraph should have credited W0YR, as mentioned in other parts of the message. I also should mention that he has recruited a team, with multiple individuals contributing expe
You might investigate the Bose A20 if you don't want a DIY job. Bose is active noise cancellation in the headphones, and I believe that the A20 in addition has noise canceling mike. For headphones wi
It's great that the capabilities to which Rick refers exist and are used by those who wish. It's not so great to attempt to bully others to "do it only my way". The RUDX already is uninteresting to a
I am about to put up a C31XR. Is there any known performance difference between using one feed line and separate feed lines for each of the 3 bands (aside from enabling SO2R without a triplexer)? Oth
Yuri & all, Item X.2. of the CQWW contest rules require contestants to leave *ALL* QSOs in their log and explains how they will be handled. This is not "optional". Don't know what else can be done on
W9WNV (now AE6IY and trustee of W9WNV) was at Dayton last year and at Visalia last month. He has tried to make his peace with the DX community. For youngsters who may not know his story, his view of