There may be some advantage to being a guest op. The top three SOAB scores in the last CQWW CW contest were made by guest ops and the top US score was also a guest op. John KK9A How about the guest o
W2GD and N2NT own stations in the caribbean so they are not guest ops. I had a home and station in the caribbean, being an absentee owner has its own set of challenges. John KK9A - P40A Sent via the
Lets not eliminate multiop categories because of a virus. What is next, eliminate expeditions since flying increases the chance of exposure? Every situation is different. John KK9A Jeff Sent from my
I am sorry to see the unassisted category eliminated from the WPX contests. It was so much fun! I imagine that CQWW will eventually do the same. John KK9A QSO alerting systems will now be permitted i
Unassisted scores typically beat assisted scores in all of the major contests only because that is where the big dogs play. This is true even in contests where multipliers weigh heavily on the score.
Single ops in the old assisted category were never required to use assistance. The rules stated "Entrants in this category may use QSO finding assistance". I think it would be foolish not to use spot
55% of those that participated in this survey did not want the two categories combined. I do know why the term combine is being used. Assisted never required that the operator use the spotting networ
There are non-assisted categories in CQWW RTTY so using a RTTY decoder should be excluded from the QSO alerting definition. The WPX RTTY rules are still different from the new "aligned with RTTY" Pho
Congratulations to KL9A for an absolutely incredible CQWW CW score! http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/3830/2020-November/701779.html 73, John KK9A _______________________________________________
CQ already has a world wide contest with serial numbers in the exchange. John KK9A They still need to do something about the CQWW exchange. With zones, it's just a callsign-copying contest. I'm for s
Excellent point Ed and I am glad that all contest are not the same. Every year someone wants to change the CQWW rules to match some other contest. We should all know by now that ham radio contesting
Hy-Gain typically uses Ø7/16 element tips with a very thin wall, not 7/8. I have owned a couple of Hy-Gain 20m beams that I used for temporary contest antennas and never had much luck keeping the ele
At least one of the big US M/M stations uses copper grease. After seeing the tremendous antenna corrosion in Aruba between stainless steel and aluminum I have become more cautious about using dissimi
Good info on the AD1C utility, perhaps someday I will find and convert my old CT logs. USB floppy drives are $20 and they work well however in my experience floppy disks are not a reliable storage me
I have no personal experience with Shireen coax however there are many posts about their products in the towertalk archives. http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/towertalk/ . John KK9A Douglas
That may be the most time consuming way to make a contest QSO and who knows how accurate that detail of QRZ.com is. For me the joy of ham radio is making contacts, more contacts is more fun. John KK9
I worked the "Please Copy" guy too, it made me smile. Regarding stations sending my callsign multiple times I really had to decided if I wanted a serial number repeated as I was likely get the whole
Hans was very clear as to the contest and mode in the initial PSE COPY post. http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-02/msg00056.html John KK9A Would people posting here puleeeeeze
I wonder how the RTTY operating practice of sending the report when calling a station started? I have only heard U.S. stations doing this and it was confusing the first time I heard it. You're correc
I am sure that is true on a quiet band. I wish that I could find a 600hz opening anywhere on 20m in last weekend's contest. Any QRM in my passband makes decoding very difficult. John KK9A An IF bandw