Pat, This is one of the reasons for the proposed rule change. To start screwing around with limits for "three weekends a year" would be an invitation to gut the rule. 157 KHz out of 200 KHz is plenty
You have only received more support than opposition because the culture is more supportive of efforts to penalize those who excell instead of encourage those who lag behind. Quite simply, those who
Tell that to the Europeans who are not allowed to operate RTTY above 7050 by the IARU bandplan. Why not keep the sprint activity below 7035 - there is plenty of room below that, particularly for a R
Bill, And only generals can participate in this contest? I haven't noticed contest activity staying out of the Extra subbands in any other contest. There is no reason that Sprint activity couldn't st
NA Sprints have been around a long time but not on the second weekend of February. It is only since NCJ unilaterally moved Sprint "on top of" CQ WPX RTTY that the issue surfaced. For an ARRL publica
The RTTY Journal web site shows results for RTTY WPX going back to 1995. I don't know when it started ... that time was while I was moving around a lot and generally off the air. A look at the calen
Of course the two events have not always been the same weekend (1997 and 1998) It is still bad form to put the "suggested operating frequencies" for a domestic (or North American) contest right on t
What is the possibility of exchanging weekends for the FOC Marathon and CW Sprint? RTTY WPX is between a rock and a hard place since the Mexico International RTTY is the first full weekend of Februa
The same "too many minor contests" argument could be made for all modes ... with all the QSO parties, Sprints, various national society DX contests, and specialty band contests, I doubt there is a s
Everyone on this reflector was warned, in spades, about the conflict on 7030-7040. That area is RTTY in the Region 1 and Region 3 IARU bandplans. When a domestic CW and international RTTY contest ar
Swapping the sprint weekends is one approach. However, to put the shoe on the other foot, how about exchanging the XE and WPX weekends? This is something the RTTY people can do on their own without
It is definitely not amateur ... the amateur digital activity is generally above 10.130 or so. What you hear on the bottom end of 30 is multi-channel commercial stuff (mostly encrypted). 73, ... Joe
The problem with the RTTY guys taking break time during the Sprint peak time on 40 is that it is also during some of the best hours for NA to EU on 40. Further the RTTY WPX rules provide double poin
The ARRL bandplan calls for keeping SSB above 1843, not 1835. The US stations don't belong below 1843 on SSB. Unfortunately, there have been several well known contest US contest ops flouting the ban
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All absolutely true ... but only half the story. In fact all of these things happen with your bank's on-line service - you just don't see them! When you log in, you already have an established accoun
The same functionality is available in the COMPLETELY FREE DXLabs Suite. After a contest, export log from CT/NA/TR/WriteLog/N1MM to ADIF and import it into DXKeeper. In DXKeeper, go to the QSL tab, s
You gentlemen still don't get it ... The "customer oriented solutions" are available in many of the well designed logging programs (e.g., DXLabs/DXKeeper). The only difference between LotW and other
Bill, you still don't understand ... they are the same method. The only difference is where the user certificate resides. Just today I was working on a new e-commerce site. The process to get an SSL
Some logging programs are already there ... DXLab/DXKeeper is completely functional (and free). Swisslog and ACLog also handle LotW easily - I understand some other loggers automate parts of the proc