As to how often QRP stations have reasonable signals... quite often really. Also the antenna system on my end is significant help. If a QRPer has cleaned up his antennas to maximize what his 5 watts
4. He just blipped his frequency (manually or with his logging program) and didn't know he had moved on top of you. I've done that (blush). Reason I figured it out was because TR's band map keeps the
Y'all, really.... It's not whether CQ mag is the greatest thing since sliced bread (or not). How about some perspective..... How many "E-zines" have folded because there was no way to enforce income
Since I went to using progressive lens (gradual change between distance and close), at some point for computer use, my eye doc suggested a cheap set of progressives where the "distance" or "horizon"
More on the mystery... I have two amps on the shelf above my Sony 1435 display I use for contests. Using TR in full screen DOS display (EGA I think), or a Windows full screen mode, the SB221 causes f
With the internet and absolutely intriguing technical possibilities, isn't it time to quit worrying about some technological advance messing with the competitive balance and create an UNLIMITED categ
On the subject of an UNLIMITED contest category: I do understand your tack. At the time it (change) seems an unwelcome intrusion into something good that works: a threat to the status quo. But lettin
Not to justify what they are doing (wide, splatter, distorted) at all ... some of the signals were so distorted that I couldn't copy the call signs ... but I think there is something else going on no
The DSP is too late in the sequence to deal with 30 or 40 over signals up or down 300-400 hz (standard ugly situation in the 160 CW tests as example of a really bad case). It needs to be significantl
The wisdom heard over and over again is that the time from 4 pm Saturday (Eastern time) start to first sleep cannot be made up. That particular stretch has been compromised nearly every SS I have eve
The best was dipoles, WITH multi-bead (for least weight) choke baluns at the centers, arranged end-to-end. Second place was one horizontal, the other vertical. This was in second place not so much be
long everyone Is there really ANY way to add participation in such a way that it only benefits the little guy and the big guns can't get in on it? You get 500 more stations on the air ANY time in the
One of those who finished in the top ten in CW section was dipoles plus an inverted L for 40/80/160, not even a tribander. Shouldn't demonstrated abuse be at the root of a discussion like this? What
Based on my long and painful contest experience, all this separate/not-separate 2 RX stuff is missing the REAL need for separate categories: Categories should be based on the number of BRAINS involve
This year there seemed to be FAR LESS stations using cut numbers. Perhaps because conditions were so strange. Or perhaps because there was a lot less opportunity to substitute "A" for "1". Nice in an
For me it's improving on a personal best, or similarly, going over a pile of odometer zeros for the first time (e.g. going over 1 meg for the first time in WPX). Or having the difference between my c
How does one define "abuse" of the system? Who owns the rules? Who are the enlightened, privileged ones who gets to define "abuse"? Just the contest committees, who necessarily have that in their job
This one smells like the old fumble-fingered-ten-thumbs-while-working-USA-SSB-stations-at-4-AM-in-t he-morning-local-after-being-up-all-night jinx. In your case, specifically, from across the pond, "
Have to second Tom's experience. I have borrowed the call NV4X from a local club a couple of times. Slowing down the "V" on CW, using TR's features, really dropped the number of repeats/mistakes on t
Actually the most common mistake was copying N4VX instead of NV4X The way that finally fixed it was: Normal "N", slower "V" with an extra long dah, 1/2 longer space between "V" and "4", faster "4", f