Hi Mike, That was an excellent idea that you suggested! I will hold off on answering Pete's request for a bit until you can determine if you can handle a multipart survey on eHam. Please tell me if I
If that is all that is required I will ask it in the survey section of contesting.com ... Sylvan Sylvan Katz, VE5ZX Saskatoon, SK http://www.dynamicforesight.com/~ve5zx
Does anyone know the status of the Trusted QSL dev group? I am embarrassed to say that I am a member of that group and I have no idea what is happening. Furthermore, when I send an email to the Darry
down wasting My experience is that such snappy operators are a very rare breed! Most of the ones I encounter don't have the courtesy to ID unless a number of calling stations send "CALL? CALL? ... "
Now this is an interesting generalization! I sure would like to see some evidence for this notion. Intuitively one might expect that the "_vast_majority" are under the age of 50 :-) ... Sylvan Sylva
Could someone please explain precisely how the CQ WW software for detecting packet use works? tnx ... Sylvan Sylvan Katz, VE5ZX Saskatoon, SK http://www.dynamicforesight.com/~ve5zx
There is another possibility. The CQ WW detection technique (and perhaps any technique) is not robust and can only detect blatant cheaters. ... Sylvan I too tried to reply to Bill directly but my em
In response to a recent posting I speculated on how the CQ WW software for detecting packet use might work and why it probably can only be used to detect blatant cheaters. The basic technique was des
Does any one know where can I get a copy of the 1999 CQWW CW & SSB results in an electronic format. I need the standard info (call, class, band, Q, Z, C and score). cu .... sylvan -- Sylvan Katz Sask
I am having some difficulty locating a copy of the CQ magazine with the results for the 1999 CQ WW SSB & CW contest. Can any one help me find a copy. I want to scan the results so that I can create a
I encountered this problem on another contesting.com list. The problem arises because someone on the reflector has the BADTRANS virus [ alias IWorm_Badtrans, I-Worm]. For details about this virus see
Thanks for the insight. For some reason the BadTrans virus leaves the return address intact. In fact I received it twice from the same source. I went to the reflector archives and I checked to see if
So what do other people think about eQSL.cc change of policy? "We are one step closer to DXCC acceptance with the modification of our InBox. You can now only display/print eQSLs that you have confirm
There is an implicit assumption in the above statement that may not be quite accurate. It appears to assume that both sides of a qso care about awards and QSLs. I, for example, don't really care abo
Might I suggest that instead of pulling your logs that you try the following. 1. Post a message short message to CQ-Contest indicating why you oppose the eQSL policy (QSLing is part of the contest p
A machine can also obscure a small but pertinent piece of information (e.g. log entry is local time not UTC) that would allow a human to quickly identify and verify a questionable qso in a collectio
spotting, but, I'm sure there are better things to talk about than this BS. Jamie - I on the other hand think your analysis is intriguing and insightful. We need a lot more of this type of analysis
April 24, 2002 -- eQSL.cc has removed its double blind requirement on the eQSL inbox because the ARRL says that it will not accept its eQSLs for DXCC awards and a large majority of their users wants
out just Excellent point! 15 days is a small saving -- 6-12 months is a big saving. It would be less disruptive to leave the submission window at 30 days and have the results posted to the web withi
A more reasonable goal would be to encourage more participation in contests. I doubt if this is accomplished by penalizing non-ARRL entries. In some contest I understand that now the DX logs account