I tried to see if anybody in the great simile contest had made the following point but in vain. So I take the liberty to post my 2 c worth: The great thing about contesting "races" is that rowboats,
" I was accused of running over power as I was hearing so well. Were the guys right when they claimed I was breaking the power rule?" -- The power of your ears? Tell the accusers the old English sayi
N2RI asked: 'Wasn't that how it was done in the old days [to get DXCC credit without a physical QSL]? From what I gather, LoTW was designed to be a modern version of that.' I thought that I ought to
Thanks to two fellow hams for the update on how updates <lol> are done now, much simpler, and promoting DXKeeper :-) As I wrote, I haven't uploaded for some years, and I am not thinking about the reg
Art K3KU wrote: I have had my other few Sweeps busted by log checking. Not wanting an "undeserved" mug, I have passed those mugs along to op's who made a Sweep but forgot to order the mug. That's ver
Possible lack of knowledge of the states of the union. Just one conclusion - CW rules :-) Sloppiness in copying (VE9AA's QSL manager in Ontario). Serves them right Same in the CQWW when people log th
Hello, I have worked the California QSO Party from California and agree that its uniquely fun. The portable stations fanning out to those historical gold-mining counties with less than 1,000 inhabita
Re Tim's post: Another heading might be the above. Have not read through the seven or so comments who all break the "good heading rule" as stated nearly the top of every digest; therefore I don't kno
I once in while gets fake book orders (I have a publishing business and my books may be ordered on my website), and they always originate from Latvia as well. Strange. Good that the ISP is being bloc
Re Stan Zawrotny's question "So what?s the profit for them to do this? Is it just malicious?" on me getting fake book orders to my website. This is really outside the realm of contesting, but the ans
A good AI bot will surely decode the call of the running station, especially since it is repeated so many times. Next project for RBN to incorporate that? Best, Goran, SM0DRD, in Stockholm Sweden ___
"IMHO, using AI in it's current state to try and catch these is overkill." I do hope that most readers of this group realized that my suggesting using AI do decode SSB calls on RBN was not meant to c