"It takes a tremendous effort to build and maintain a station in the Caribbean."No. Wrong. What it takes is a tremendous amount of money. K1TN/4--Original Message-- From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contes
I think if someone can category hop up, whether it be M2 to MM or LP to HP, and win the category for the entire world, then there must be something wrong with the definitions of the categories. K1TN
Who cares about "world high score?" It's a big planet. How many contacts you can make in a DX contest is all about skip zones and distance to population centers and the stupid sunspot cycle. The Japa
bands...to a much greater degree than for USA types to work each other (one zone and done). Just imagine ... if the ARRL DX Contest counted U.S. states and Canadian provinces as multipliers for U.S.
Trent, The first two words of my post were "Just imagine." It was a thought experiment, nothing more. I am old enough, just barely, to remember when the ARRL International DX Competition had QSO quot
I am shocked by the votes on "Remove Uniques?" Who could oppose removing uniques, which are, as CQ's official comment says, obviously busted call signs? If I bust anything in a contact, and it's indi
This is just so wrong as to be not even laughable. Thousands of contesters, from casuals like me to top competitors, log off, disconnect, and just play radio. K1TN __________________________________
Charly, How do you "suspect they will be a unique?" K1TN I get a smattering of contacts who just want an HS contact; I log them suspecting they will be a unique. I will enjoy my score regardless of a
You commented about uniques but you attached my earlier comment about single-assisted. I can recall more than one occasion when I had to coach a "casual" operator through a contest contact. That woul
Seems to me there are two rationales for any 24-hour category: 1) A way for Big Guns to have another category in which they can "win," and are willing to spend the entire 48 hours "in" the contest, p
The February (print) issue of Scientific American has a nice review of "Contact Sport," by Jim George, N3BB, about WRTC 2014. It's on page 72 of the magazine. The review called the WRTC "the pinnacle
When I operated as a crystal-controlled Novice in 1961 *everybody* called off frequency except those Generals with their fancy variable frequency oscillators. If there had been a contest reflector ba
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I think the Overlay-Cheaters classes should also apply to single-operators, no? This would expand the number of "opportunities" in the Cheater-Unlimited "class." Moar categories, needz moar categorie
I agree with Hans, K0HB. This is not about penalties for "inaccurate copying," it's about making a keyboard mistake typing in the info. This is not about "guessing." It's about g.d. getting on the ai
Basketball and baseball players do not work together as a team? Who knew? K1TN _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesti
Booooogus. Nobody would put the rotator that close to the top of the tower with that much mast/antennas above it. K1TN _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Conte
After every World Radiosport Team Championship (WRTC) do you find yourself thinking "Gee, the WRTC is the greatest event in ham radio and I sure wish somebody would write a book about it?" Well, some
50 years ago Bob Dylan played a concert in Manchester England. He began sitting on a stool with an acoustic guitar and sang a few favorites. Then he switched to an electric guitar and sang Mr Tambour
"PS Can we revisit contest results in printed QST?" No, you can't. The world has moved on. I'm happy to read in QST about new technology that I barely understand; that's what learning is all about. T