Oh great, another "contesting or ham radio is dying thread". Guess we better remove both the CW and the written test requirement. 73s John W5TD http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
Now that the CQWW is over, does anyone have a review of how the FT2000 does under serious contest and DXing condition? 73s John W5TD __________________________________________________________________
And remember, in terms of size and distance, what we in the US call states Europe calls countries (and 1 point QSOs). 73s John W5TD http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest ___________
And this is one thing that has baffled me. You would think that VHF/UHF activity should have greatly increased with the low cost and availability of HF/VHF/UHF rigs like the FT857 and Ic-706MKIIG. 73
At least you got to watch the Bears. One of our CBS stations carried the Giants and Texans (boring) and the other one had the Rams and Chefs. I ended up watching the glorious Redskins victory instead
Or the alternative-just allow everyone to use them and don't make it a separate class. 73s John W5TD ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Lin
I was pretty limited in operating time, but did hear both NM and WTX. Didn't work either, though. I was suprised how easy VY1, KP4, KP2 and KH6 were to get, along with ND, VT, and RI. 73s John W5TD h
VY1JA was on 15 CW saturday afteroon/early evening with very few callers. Found several VT stations also. I did not hear MT either. I think the NNY section was created just to keep people from gettin
Everyone from SB must have moved to SCV. I finally did work SB, but it seemed like 80% of the 6s I worked were in SCV. Never remember hearing that many before. 73s John W5TD http://lists.contesting.c
Just use the cut numbers for the check, then it is just Dah Dah. 73s John W5TD _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/dire
Exactly. Why not just change the section you send every year. I would probably get alot more calls sending NT or NL than OK. 73s John W5TD http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest ____
So if it isn't being enforced, why keep it? Either eliminate the check, or let each person just choose any 2 digit number they want. Maybe their age like in the AA contest, since that would change ev
But remember, the RST system is completely subjective. S9 means extremely strong signals-but relative to what. A signal just at the noise level is an extremely strong signal when compared to the sign
Then why keep it in the exchange? http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own b
And what about publicly (more or less) stating that you won't enfore certain rules. For example, to go back to a topic that was discussed before-the SS rules say the check is the last 2 digits of the
Again, if they have decided that the check is meaningless, then why state what it is in the rules? Why not state "send any 2 digit number?" It never says "send an honest signal report" just "signal r
Here is another issue related to the "assisted vs non-assisted" rules for different contests. In the ARRL DX contests coming up next year, I am thinking of entering as a single band entry: 15 meters,
Steve, You took the words right out of my mouth. Before clusters showed up, there was no assisted category, and no one worried if you called a directional CQ or not. Lets get back to the obvious-"ass
Don't the rules say something about both callsigns being sent and received for it to be a valid QSO? 73s John W5TD Packet hater #1 http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest ____________
And I had one station say that he copied my call incorrectly, even though he said it correctly, because the name and state I gave him didn't match what he had in the files, as he had the info for the