Reminds me of one of the classic Yogi Berraisms: That restaurant is so crowded, nobody goes there anymore. While it would be cool to have some way that x unanswered CQs would be grounds for someone e
Really? I thought the right wing PC guys would have required anything with such a French sounding name be renamed the "Freedom Contest", or something like that. 73 - Jim K8MR
Good points are made in the above post by N6AA. I would suggest another criteria for "no callsign" operation: How smooth was the just competed qso. A couple of "5NN 5" exchanges at 40 wpm (or faster
What's your problem? If you don't like USA spots, turn on your filters to reject them. State QSO > parties and packet sysops won't stop the spotting because they The Ohio QSO Party, of which I am the
Reading the comments filed with the FCC over the past few days on the BPL NOI (03-104), one sees a lot of duplicated messages, including a few from me. We dupers are not as dumb as it might seem. My
It's exactly one month until the 2003 Ohio QSO Party. In Florida-speak, that's 31 days. Put it on your calendar now and be there next month. The OQP runs from 1600z Saturday, August 23, to 0400z Augu
It's now less than 3 days to the 2003 Ohio QSO Party. Already one of the top state QSO parties around, we're working to make it even better this year. 2003 is Ohio's Bicentennial, and the OQP is the
Letterman's Top Ten Reasons for Operating the Ohio QSO Party: 10. The last contest before Labor Day... a good chance to start clearing the dust from your radios in anticipation of the fall. 9. Practi
This Saturday, August 23, will be the fifth running of the Ohio QSO Party, from noon to midnight (EDT), or 1600z to 0400z on Sunday, August 24. This year is Ohio's 200th anniversary of statehood, so
Did not each of these stations send enough information - like their state, as part of the exchange? And did not W2SC determine that the state he copied made sense for that callsign, unlike if, say, O
The sponsors don't intend to slight Canadians; this is their method of making a total of 58 mults. CA has 58 counties. Let's just be thankful that the Texas QSO Party doesn't use this same logic On a
This happens on one out of seven calendar possiblities, when January 31 falls on a Saturday and February 1 falls on a Sunday. Since most contests work on a "N-th full weekend of the month" schedule,
Does this earn you 100 bonus points? :-) FB article, and a FB job at W1CW. 73 - Jim K8MR -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! THE OFFICIAL FILM of WRTC 2002 now on professional DVD
I wonder how many of them will be named "Chad" ? 73 - Jim K8MR -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contesting.com Are duplicate
There is an art to coiling cables. It is called "Over and Under". Most untrained cable coilers do what might be called "over and over". They grab an end with their left hand (for right handed people)
I'm not sure how many people are about to chuck their MP's to get a TS-830, but anyway: Can the logging programs be set up to take a contact closure and turn it into band information? I thought they
As the inventor (I think) of the X band changes per hour concept (as a replacement for the 10-minute rule) I think you are correct that it was never specifically discussed for M/2, although I conside
Just curious, what violations did you see described above? 73 - Jim K8MR -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contesting.com
I Would it have been OK to watch The Weather Channel on TV to keep track of an approaching t-storm? Or if it was from an over-the-air broadcast TV station? Is it any different to watch it on Weather.
During the ARRL CW test I was probably the 10 meter button pusher at K8AZ, whose signal was among those listed among those original posting. Although the 10 meter position was not so equipped, the 15