participants without any discrimination on MEMBERSHIP basis. The point about international discrimination was explicitly made to the ARRL Board of Directors by the QST Contest working group in their
Richard magazine. You may wish to recheck this fact -- things are changing. QST will no longer publish contest line scores. (see http://www.remote.arrl.org/announce/board-0207/) "NOW THEREFORE BE IT
Tony our hobby and quit bitching! One of the most important things we can do is figure out ways to increase participation in contests. Discriminating against contestants who your organization has inv
Perhaps. Line results should be free and immediate. It is the cost the sponsoring organization incurs to encourage participation and maintain harmony in the community. On the other hand, value-added
Kelly, the With all due respect it seems that something has gone unnoticed. Not only do the contesters need the sponsors but the sponsors need the contestants. The sponsor pays with money and volutee
I don't think this is a viable solution especially given the fact that some clusters are private. The only thing that makes sense is to "eliminate" the assisted class. After all, as many other have
and And in case you want the proof see http://www.newscientist.com/conferences/confarticle.jsp?conf=bprso200203&id= ns99992039 And perhaps it matters what you chew too http://www.informationweek.com
not And if you believe that I have a bridge for sale :) Common sense tells us that Formula One race cars should not be allowed to enter the local stock car race. Just like common sense tells us that
*work* The "2" in SO2R says it all! There is a quantitative bolt on (e.g. SO2R MASTER ) advantage in SO2R. Granted it takes a skill to learn how to operate this mode. Just as it takes skill to sort
Oh gosh no. In fact with my old fashion 736 and TR I have ability to skip around the bands at a fair clip. Perhaps I am a SO1.3R - no matter I do know that I have a mainstream contesting station. Th
me Igor, this is a wonderfully sensible idea! In fact, if the summary information for each contest was kept in a proper and publicly accessible database with a few additional fields of information w
the DX cluster as I could hear. I did not call CQ once and only worked stations that were new multipliers. operator unassisted, calling CQ, hunting and pouncing and hunting multipliers on the second
No one said the issue is certificates! The issue is information! Leaving SO2R in with SO1R clutters the results and makes performance less comparable for equivalent set-ups! Carsten has nailed it on
Yes - 3830 is an ideal place to gather information. Unfortunately, this information is not available like sponsor contest information is not available in a format suitable for analysis. Don't get me
I am not so sure it is Expert vs Intermediate. This kind of assumes the difference is only skill and not set-up. There are lots of very skilled contestants who don't have either the real estate or t
Jim, it would be wonderful it 3830 could provide the summary information in a form that could be downloaded and imported into a database. Even having the summary information in a csv file would cert
forward dB gain and take-off angle for starters. AND a contest qth well south of the auroral black hole :) In fact, I would take your simple home SO2R setup running as a SO1R, if it was situated clo
I think this is an excellent suggestion! And it is right in line with this month's survey question on contesting.com. Go for it! ... Sylvan Sylvan Katz, VE5ZX Saskatoon, SK http://www.dynamicforesig
not I suspect that this might be a misleading idea and perhaps it needs to be explored with actual data and not speculation. It would be a shame to draw a hasty conclusion about an idea that might b