I've taken Juha's list and put into a sortable spreadsheet. The list can now be sorted by Call, Country or Society abbreviation. It's at http://members.shaw.ca/jimsmith/IARU/ or http://members.shaw.c
Perhaps someone involved in log checking could tell us how they would handle a soapbox comment saying that, "I lost 25 Qs between the times of xxxx and xxyy." I've included such comments when I've do
Hi Jose, What an interesting analysis. Thanks for doing this Jose. I was particularly intrigued by your statement that a 2 db improvement in signal strength will provide access to another level of st
Thanks Steve, I'll have to look at that article again. Thanks also for your reporting of your personal experience corroborating this. Confirms my belief that raising the antenna by 10 ft can make a n
I have found the following helpful. I have a calendar app into which I can insert the usual birthdays, holidays, and any other dates that I want. I enter all the contests I might be interested in. At
The calendar app I use is called Days Ease and is a (very) old PC Mag utility. You can find it at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1163621,00.asp One less desirable aspect is: While you can sched
Some Eastern Eu software writer friends and I have been following this thread with great interest. After some preliminary false starts we now have some Beta software ready for distribution which will
Florida without a doubt. Why? The never ending promotion of it by K4OJ. (Still hard to mention his call without tearing up a little.) The items mentioned below are also a big part of it. What makes a
Here's an FB link for the New to Contesting Button to point to: http://www.qsl.net/zs1an/contesting_faq.html 73, Jim Smith VE7FO _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing lis
I really think that there's a place for CW decoders. A friend of mine was learning CW and wanted to get into CW contests. Unfortunately, his speed was nowhere near fast enough to participate. He foun
Thanks for this Robert This year the RAC HQ station will be signing VE7RAC. Unfortunately just 1 station (but it's a good one) with 2 op positions. Generally, 1 position will be on cw and the other o
I've forgotten who it is that prepares those beautiful listings of DX stations intending to be in a particular contest. I think he has a 3 call but that's all I remember. Can someone please point me
Yup, it's NG3K alright. Thanks a lot guys. Man, the cndx suck in WW RTTY. Got tired of CQing and decided to go thru my e-mail instead. 73, Jim VE7FO _______________________________________________ CQ
Please, NOT THIS TIME, Mr. Sun indeed. I'm approaching my 73rd birthday. 73, Jim VE7FO _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.c
Good for you, Doug. I have long thought that we should be "naming names" here as a matter of course. I had a similar problem some time back with a VE3 M/M, well, multi something. When I complained to
Hi Abubaker N1MM is a very full featured, well documented, free contesting program http://pages.cthome.net/n1mm/ Because it is so full featured, it takes time to get used to. It will import adif file
Hi Steve, I thought I would follow your suggestion. I couldn't find anywhere in N1MM a way to have the actual QRG recorded in the Cabrillo file. If you can tell me how to do it, I will. 73, Jim VE7FO
Well, duuhh.... I didn't even look at a Cabrillo to see if the QRG was recorded. It is, of course, No wonder I couldn't find a way to get N1MM to do it, it already does it. Thanks for all the kind an
Hi Mal, I'm not sure your idea would work but it would sure change the content of our annual gripe session on this topic. Let's see now, contest xx gives the assisted guys a 25% boost to their score
If I want to maximize the total points made by a station with 2 op positions, there is a choice between M/2 or M/M or two M/s under separate calls. We're going here for max total points generated by