it's Wow - I couldn't agree more. I remember the 'good ole days' when Mark Wilson was a skinny, young sprout of a contester. His QST SS write-ups were FABULOUS because they had station comparisons, p
they Shrewd? I don't think that's a term that's ever been used to describe anyone in the amateur radio publishing business. I'll just throw this on the fire. CQ magazine reluctantly publishes contest
Okay - I give up. What are they? Statements like that with no data to back them up are pretty worthless. Cheers, Steve K7LXC -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrat
Au contraire. I was a contributing editor to CQ Contest magazine for its entire existence and have had hundreds of phone conversations with the editor of that magazine as well as CQ Communications st
CQ market research? That's a good one. (They do have reader responses regarding articles now but that's a fairly recent development.) Gee, I forgot it was so simple. Please remember that the CQWW has
The POINT is that these are the kids that used to get into ham radio and now they aren't. They're exactly the same when it comes to fascinating eager, bright and COMPETITIVE kids. Sorry - they ARE th
Sure - I'll buy one. Sounds FB to me. Then I can throw away/unsubscribe from CQ magazine. Cheers, Steve K7LXC -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: c
So we're back to a website for useful, timely info. It meets ALL of the criteria. Cheers, Steve K7LXC -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-conte
I totally agree with your observations, particularly about the amount of pages devoted to construction articles of highly complicated (IMO - I'm not an EE), extremely narrow appeal devices. I'm reall
Yes, to emails sent directly to him. I was referring to the fact that those guys don't subscribe to and read the cq-contest reflector like you and I do. Cheers, Steve K7LXC -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http
procedures... In my way of thinking, this should be the SECOND book. The first should be some kind of feature book that gets the competition, the challenge, the magic of contesting across to the read
My "Building A One-Tower Station" article is right up this alley. I'd be happy to contribute it. Cheers, Steve K7LXC Tower Tech -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administ
Wow! You mean people actually READ and BUILD from those articles? Amazing. Cheers, Steve K7LXC Tower Tech -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-co
These are good topics for contesters but I think we need to define who our target market is. IMO it's the person who's never operated a contest before or has dabbled a little bit in a couple and want
The first chapter or two needs to address the history, challenges, magic, and reasons why of contesting. IMO this is THE most important chapter. Cheers, Steve K7LXC -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists
Right - you really need a mentor. Many contesters started sitting next to a good op during a multi-op effort, even Field Day. That's when they saw how it all worked and how FUN it was. Graduates of s
Why? Your post was thoughtful and on target IMO. If anyone on this reflector DOES send you hate mail, I'd like to hear about it. Cheers, Steve K7LXC TowerTalk Administrator, one of the www.contesting
There is no question that the best OPERATORS are contesters. They know how to organize things, make decisions on the fly, and actually get stuff done - specifically communcating and exchanging inform
I think that someone or something should 'own' the book and actually make a small profit on it. The profit could be used to 1) advertise and promote the books availability , i.e. banner ads on www.co
I think you've come up with a wonderful idea in which I would participate. The goals of 1) getting lots of hams involved in a 'demonstration' emergency/competitive event which would raise the visibil