April, F0OL, has beaten previously undefeated K1DG in the Poisson D'Avril contest.<< Old news, just coming in, C.W. Bug N0/FO0L has beaten that April chick way before the April Poison was even start
One can "cheat" on sleep only for so many (2-3) days, then the fatigue sets in and weird things happen. One thing that helps to prolong the staying alert hours is the avoidance of carbohydrates and s
Yuri Blanarovich, K3BU Ditto! But in place of the results you get pages of listings of directors and pictures and pictures of hams with shack on the belt or porta setup in the parking lot of ...... I
Reminds me "Streamlining Story" Old man had small business going, selling pretzels and sodas from his cart by the Lincoln Tunnel. He stood there rain or shine providing service to those waiting in lo
Jim, N6TJ writes: <BR>> So, pretty much from early 1973 to Don's passing in June 1985, I <BR>> operated <BR>> many contests from W6AM, and spent literally 100's of hours there -<BR>> working <BR>> on
Sorry for messy post, switching to new email and browser, here it is again cleaned up: Thanks Jim! Very interesting and W6AM was certainly an icon and unique "hamonized" commercial installation of rh
Especially on the Memorial Day (WPX) weekend! :-( I have been trying to be "patriotic" and forgiving and patient and eager to keep upgrading this software upgradeable contest wunder. Much of the comi
With INRAD roofing filter and IF filters mod, I would put it right there with workhorses FT1000D and IC781. Another beauty is that you can have three or four filters cascaded. I also find AN or DSP o
Until we get to the point of having fully "Realtime" Contest Scoreboards, something like the above WRTC (URL) would be very cool. Further, with some options to display ONLY specific stations of inte
IMHO the whole idea of HQ stations is kind of lopsided. First, the problems mentioned before, "patriots" working only their alma HQ. Second, the idea of using the biggest, baddest stations scattered
to have a broad effect and small enough to not exclude medium size-ham populations. But the overall size and contesting activity still should be reflected as it is in i.e. football, too: Brazil, Eng
Some blood clot prevention worthy considering is the use of aspirin and/or garlic. They are blood thinners and recomended to those who had blood clots and heart attacks. Garlic is also good 'stay aw
Another reason to eliminate the "teach me the proper logging" stoooopid 3 QSO penalty. I Operated QRP in CQ WW on 160. Typically I spent half an hour to make QSO, waiting for pileup to die. I make fe
Yea, but no way for you to mark which QSO is 0 point, not to be counted. Claimed score is for ??? If M/S goofs and makes illegal QSO because of the timing rule, they just take it out of the log and m
Howdy fellow contesters. Just postscript to the 3 QSO "penalty" thing. I made my comments addressing the silliness of the 3 QSO penalty in present times and state of technology and tried to amplify m
There are situations when correct callsigns WERE exchanged, but sh... errors happens. Pressing wrong key, double key, or ERASE instead of LOG on the other side could remove the "proof". Nobody is pe
stations as 71, also shows 71 contacts in the CW column, and then shows 7 contacts in the phone column(??) (I was a CW-only entrant in IARU). Looking over the listing in just the area of my call, I
Interesting analysis, just proves that there is luck factor involved in WRTCs. One is the call sign, PT5M has fewer dots and dashes than PW5C. Another one, as analyzed is the location. Another one im
During low sunspots, the height of atmosphere/ionosphere decreases and low angle antennas/locations gain big advantage. Being more south in PY and having higher angle signal could aggravate the situa
1. Locate 50 stations along a remote flat seacoast a set distance from high tide levels every mile along a 50 mile stretch of isolated beach. During the summertime, comfort should not be much of a pr