I have never operated NAQP but in other RTTY contests sometimes it is hard to keep the timing between radios perfect. Some people give long exchanges and others give more efficient reports. What happ
You're in New Jersey and you notice this! Hopefully the sunspots will someday return. 73, John KK9A Certainly is interesting. Even though W2RE was not as loud as others at the time you made the recor
Stan must have used Super Check Partial to obtain the WN4 prefix:) John KK9A Most all other contests. If you call ZF9CW and I log you as WN4AFO, you get credit and I don't. If I log you as Zone 4 wit
This is an interesting post since I just made a RG400 jumper last night. It was made with coax also purchased on eBay more than a year ago however mine is clearly marked with the manufacture's name -
You will lose your log files eventually if you do not back up your computer. I back my log up many times even during the contest. There are many ways to do this, 1 terabyte external USB drives that w
I agree, please keep FT? contests separate from RTTY. Unlike FT?, RTTY decoders are not perfect. To do well a RTTY operator needs to quickly look at multiple decoders to determine what the callsign a
You need to show the FCC's definition of "communication" before you can make that statement. John KK9A An interesting thought. FT# modes produce QSOs that comply with FCC Rule 97.119 a. while typical
It CQ WW, which is the #1 major contest, CW decoders are allowed in the categories that allow QSO finding assistance. John KK9A CW decoders are strictly prohibited in the majors. Barry W2UP _________
Contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/ calls all of them "Mailing Lists". John KK9A Looking back, do any of you greybeards out there remember where the name "reflector" came from? I much prefer
What does 7.040 RTTY/Data DX mean? Is this a single channel? FWIW I have made a number of DX RTTY QSOs slightly above 7.040, perhaps even on the new 7.0475 FT4 frequency. That segment of 40m is quite
This month there have 81 posts on cq-contest and 65 of them were about the newer digi FT4 and FT8 modes. I have noticed the same trend on other lists too. The top band group claims that there is now
What a great presentation and how it relates to contest scores. It starts to get very expensive when you are squeezing that last dB out of your station either though commercial sized Heliax or by add
Isn't that the truth! Of course unnecessary information such as /qrp is always perfect copy. John KK9A Regardless of speed, it always seems the fade/QRN is synchronized with the callsign and you miss
I agree, articles to attract new contesters would be great. Also it is nice to show more than top ten scores, many little pistol ops would love to see their callsign in the magazine. CQ Magazine stil
Did the RTTY subbands change? I have made thousands of contest RTTY QSOs in many of these FTx segments. John KK9A - W4AAA Rules and FAQ: https://ww-digi.com/index.htm One issue is contest mode versus
I have never operated FT8 or FT4 but I have enjoyed reading about the recent contest. It appears that there are some things that the FTx operator has no control over such as saying this was a good QS
This is great news for Sweepstakes lovers. You do a fantastic job operating VY1AAA [nice suffix:)], I never had trouble finding and working you however getting a sweep in the CW leg is still quite a
I posted the message shown below on towertalk and received no response. Since contesters are creative and resourceful I thought I would also try posting it here. I am wondering if anyone has experien
What it the best way to ask for a repeat of someone's precedence in SS CW? For me this is the most difficult part of the exchange to get sent again. Often I get the section is repeated instead and I
Some of these CQWW CW scores are just amazing, especially in the single op AB categories. I have been on the DX side of pileups and it can be exhausting, to do this for 48 hours straight is quite a f