Tidbit from ARRL: "The Awards Committee has considered and accepted several recommendations from the Contest Advisory Committee which will affect the annual November Sweepstakes. Effective with the 1
Soro Roberto responds: I don't know the situation where you contest, but at my location during a contest like CQWW or ARRL DX I could stay very busy indeed just working stations spotted on the cluste
No, but some unofficial dribs and drabs have shown up: New categories (precedence) would be: Q - Single Op QRP A - Single Op Low Power B - Single Op High Power U - Single Op Unlimited (any power leve
Someone (K5ZD maybe?), in the dim past, wrote here that radio contesting was the largest technological "computer game" in the world with literally thousands of simultaneous targets around the contine
Soro Roberto responds: I don't know the situation where you contest, but at my location during a contest like CQWW or ARRL DX I could stay very busy indeed just working stations spotted on the cluste
No, but some unofficial dribs and drabs have shown up: New categories (precedence) would be: Q - Single Op QRP A - Single Op Low Power B - Single Op High Power U - Single Op Unlimited (any power leve
Someone (K5ZD maybe?), in the dim past, wrote here that radio contesting was the largest technological "computer game" in the world with literally thousands of simultaneous targets around the contine
Whoa there, Pilgrim! There are some challenging contests (and first-class contesters) running wholly above 30MHz. 73, de Hans, K0HB -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Admini
Why do many contests specify maximum operating time (usually for single ops) which is less than the total contest period? This isn't meant to be an argument "for" or "against" but just a query into t
Thanks, Trey! You da man! 73, Hans, K0HB -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contesting.com
Uhhhhhh...... I just counted the sections...... twice....... I count 70 existing, plus this new one would be 71. How many do you count? 73, Hans, K0HB -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/
In fact "how long you've been licensed" seems only to be of interest to the individual who has been licensed a long time, and has no particular meaning to anyone else. 73, de Hans, K0HB -- CQ-Contest
Hey, everything that *I* didn't think of first is "against the spirit" of the rules. So long as all the contacts are CW, there is nothing in the rules against this idea. Hokey, yes...... illegal, no.
Maybe I mis-interpret his intent, but it seemed clear to me that he was *not* going to operate SSB, but CW. He said "I'm talking about real CW qsos...". CW is allowed on absolutely every single KHz o
If you do not send in your log there is no loss to anyone who worked you. 73, Hans, K0HB -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@conte
It depends on which contest...... (how's that for a wishy-washy answer!) In SS, where there are a small number of possible mults (79, going to 80 next year) you are better off *never* to abandon a go
Whoa, Pilgrim! A rule is a rule. I also think some rules are stupid (mandatory time off, for one), but I obey the rules or get DQ'd. 73, Hans, K0HB -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq
No matter how you weave and spin and dodge, setting up a run frequency between 28.3 and 28.35 is in open violation of the rule. Several stations (and not all DX, as if that matters) were camped in th
Pete, You're right of course, but the jail-house lawyers have taken the second sentence of that rule ("Stations may not call CQ contest in this window.") to mean that "non-contest" just means you can
And sometimes an amplifier is just an equalizer for those of less skill. 73, Hans, K0HB -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contes