Hi Art Lets step back a bit, and see what is *technically possible - today*. A person could operate from all 40 zones in the CQWW - in one sitting, by connecting to 40 different stations and operatin
The idea is NOT to make operating remote look bad. Quite the opposite. Operating remote is now a fact of every day life for many people. I just wanted to "push the upper limit" as it were to see what
There is one other aspect to also consider: The guy IDs once per minute. He ID's, but he is covered up by QRM. As an S&P guy, do you continue to wait, hoping for a second chance...? Remember - you ca
I think there is a few things that need to also be taken into account. A bandplan is designed for *normal* band loading. Clearly, when there is a contest on, we are NOT dealing with normal band loadi
Hi Roger Thanks for making me take a second look. For some reason, I thought ARRL had a 160 phone contest - they do not. My mistake. As it turns out - there is only ONE SSB contest - the CQ 160 SSB t
Consider this (hypothetical) scenario. I run like mad, or S&P, making QSO's "fast and dirty", with no regard to accuracy, and I am happy with a Is that the message we want to send to folks when loggi
Just a reminder that the Ontario QSO Party is this weekend - Saturday and Sunday. Fun starts on Saturday at 18:00 Z. Rules and details can be found here: http://va3cco.com/oqp/index.htm Hope to see e
This is actually a very good point, and expecting 100% accuracy during log checking is not always possible. I read the book "Contact Sport" that covers the 2014 WRTC. Clearly, we are dealing with top
A few years ago, an operator worked a CQWW contest, and in an effort to trim a few seconds off his exchange, he omitted '599' from his exchange. There was a lot of comments after the fact here on the
I don't seem to be able to find it on the WWROF site, but there was a webniar of "When the Giants Walked the Bands", or something close to that. It was about the early days of multi-multi contesting.
We have posted the results of the 2016 Ontario QSO Party on our website at http://va3cco.com/oqp/results/index.htm. We received 104 logs, and wish to thank everyone for participating and submitting a
The complaining about the CQWW has been interesting. So - here is an idea I would like to throw out there: Have a CQWW "warmup" contest - weekend before the CQWW "real" contest, and use the CQWW RTTY
I am sure this will be posted in a few places, but here goes: http://www.w8bi.org/ Looks like there WILL be a Dayton 2017 - but NOT at the Hara Arena. I take this as good news all around! This is als
To me, it boils down to one thing: organization. DARA has been doing this forever and a day. At this point, it is a well oiled machine. Pull the binder off the shelf - all your date benchmarks are al
My take on it is this: The DARA folks have been at this for many years, and I expect they have a VERY good handle on what worked/did not work at the Hara. Will there be a few bumps along the way? Of
I did an M2 at NQ4I a couple of years ago. We had two radios per band, and a total of six radios. Two radios per band interlocked - only one could transmit at a time (hardware interlock). One run rad
The rules say one needs to include their call in the exchange. Seems simple to me that one needs to include their call in the exchange, and it does not leave room to "trim" the exchange... Tom - VE3C
This past weekend in the SS, I did find one trick that seemed to help when the burps, farts and associated noised started - usually on 40 and 80 meters. I said "Awww - is it time for the net ALREADY?
Best bet would be to continue with #37. If part of your log has been lost, you might want to enter it as a check log, along with a note that part of your log has been lost. Tom - VE3CX ______________
There was some discussion about this issue some months ago here on CQ-Contest. The consensus was - no packet for single ops, and it seems like a great option. *Every* contest does not need packet for