In 1963 I became K3FIV when I passed my General. After a few moves I got it back, even though I'm now in 6-land. I like the cadence on CW and even though it's 1x3 it's got a lot of dots so it doesn't
Fascinating discussion. As I recall, this started out as a request to hear people's thoughts, and I've been thinking about it for a while so I'll toss my two cents in. Full disclosure -- I've been in
In the spirit of improving accuracy....a suggestion In the late 1970s, I was involved in a project to use computers to understand Morse code. Google "haverty understanding Morse code" if you're curio
Sure, glad to help. It would be interesting to see what can be done with today's computer power. The project I mentioned was done in a university lab environment. We (staff) created the hardware/soft
In yesterday's NAQP, I got several "pse qsy" phrases in the "tu" phase. That was a first for me. Since I'm in California, I don't expect to be needed as a mult, except in a few cases where I might be
Imagine a server on the Internet. Let's call it Prospector. You send your logs to it, in real time. It collects logs from a lot of people. It also collects information from Skimmers et al. Maybe WWV,
To answer Tor's comment -- I was saying that Prospector use would qualify as unassisted, if you consider the specific wording of the WRTC rules. Rule 12.4 only excludes "callsign or exchange" receive
I heartily agree that it's good to encourage a wide range of technologies. I think the real challenge lies in the issue of "separate classes". There are good reasons for defining all sorts of classes
I'll add my support for shorter time periods. Few of us have the stamina or interest to do all-nighters. If there had been a 24 or 12 hour competition in WPX, I might have been motivated today to tur
Pete, I can't see any reason *not* to do this. Great idea. Anyone who wants to compete is always looking for "others like me" to compare scores, so the CWC provides an easy way to create such a venue
Comments from several people indicate that I wasn't very clear in my wording earlier. I was suggesting a simple 24-out-of-48 definition of contest period, where you could work longer but only the fir
Ham radio contesting arguably invented "online gaming", long before there was a 'net. If we can remember what it was like to be young, I think there's some easy explanations for why our own form of o
Hi Pete, I've noticed the same thing. My 100W-and-wire signal gets picked up by skimmers just before a contest, but after the starting gun I hardly ever get spotted. Has anyone done tests to measure
Also interesting -- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-meyer/generation-win-sportsmanship_b_3285293.html 73 de K3FIV _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Conte
Rules are very difficult to write down so precisely that no one can find loopholes. So in most sporting contests, there's some kind of impartial third-party to make the final decision - referee, umpi
I better clarify.... I'm one of those people who just enjoys playing radio. I don't really care about the score. With 100W and a wire, I'm not going to be "in the running" anyway. But there are appar
Me too - another casual contester. A simple enhancement of the logging program(s) you use might help a lot with those serious operators' problem. Suppose you could have a command to tell your logger
Bob, I totally agree that getting the RBN to send a perfect stream of data is the right solution. That may however be a very hard problem to solve, filtering out all "bad" spots while not filtering o
IMHO, Charly's analysis is right on target. Contests are quite different when viewed from the perspective of the "casual operator". My own station is just a quite modest LP setup, far from being a "c