Hello Ray, The greatest message I have read on this reflector in ages. I took the survey and voted to join unassisted and assisted. Why should I want to keep them separate entries when SO2R are grant
Guys, I think WPX and all the other contests and dxpeditions would be much better if all participants would act like Nigel G3TXF (just to name one) who, regardless if he's dxpeditioning or contesting
Hello Paul, No. Just focus on what we had (have?) in Italy, something called "Seborga". The locals think they have a right to indipendence from Italy due to some papers signed may centuries ago. They
Hello Paul, I do the same, if P5RS7 shows up in contest I'll try to work him. Personally I think at this time the Crimea case should be treated exactly as the Northern Cyprus case. A piece of a sover
Hello Ken, I haven't looked at it, I have just read your analysis. He logged just one mult at 0708, another one at 0709 and the third at 0710 along with two more QSOs on his running freq. That makes
Hello James, If I feel like getting on the air for a few hours of contesting (unlikely to happen these days) I usually play Unassisted but I stay connected to the local cluster although I keep the sp
Hello Richard, Take a look at the following small part of an old log from which I stripped the non relevant informations to keep it small: CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED
Hello Peter, -- 2. QSO alerting assistance: The use of any technology or other source that provides call sign or multiplier identification along with frequency information to the operator. -- When my
Hello Richard, 1. in a 15 minutes time frame he worked only one new mult on 40m, it could have been because he actually tuned on that band looking for mults 2. 10 minutes passed between the first qso
Hello Vlad, That may or may not be reasonable, the point is it's not written in the rules. What are written rules good for if you can't trust what you read? The written rules don't say it is prohibit
Hello Randy, Nowhere in my post I have said or implicitly suggested that you used assistance or cheated in any other possible way. I used a small part of one of your old logs to point out that extrac
Hello KU7Y, Let me stretch it some more. I am waiting for that elusive new one and I am willing to stop my contesting effort for as long as it takes to work one of the last DXCC entities I need which
Hello KU7Y, I have never mentioned the RBN network, I was talking about being connected to my local cluster which has only spots made by real people with the W3LPL "heard here and there" as the only
Hello Tim, So it is clearly written in the FAQ page. I admit I haven't read that page, I thought the rules page had all I needed to know. However reading that page, a few lines above I also find the
Hello Randy, Bad example. The "professionals" don't have to record themselves, there is someone else doing the work. You can still win the marathon or place in one of the top spots even if during the