Good day, Kelly and everyone: I am concerned about the potential effect of a suggestion "to request the DX Cluster operators to kindly employ WRTC filters" on the vast majority of participants in the
Hi David: I'm one of those users - I connect to your skimmer and several others. The RBN is a single point of failure. Legislating its use is just like dictating that I can only use one specific pack
That's inventive but I don't think it's what the words say. :-) If that's really what Bob meant, he or someone official needs to say so. 73, Mark 73, Mark "Bob Naumann" <W5OV@W5OV.COM> wrote: -- Sent
Hi Pete; The most important thing in the CQ is your call. I think you should send it twice. I don't think you should send test twice and CQ TEST is redundant! :-) I also don't think the S&P station n
Good day: I will be in Scottsdale, AZ, on business this week. Any local contesters want to get together Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday night? Let me know. I look forward to meeting you! 73, Mark, KD
Hi Barry: This is certainly not the case in a WPX contest (or even a CQWW) where a LOT of new callsigns show up. This would make the RBN feed MUCH less useful for many, many users. Maybe some flag co
Hi Jeff: QRZ takes way too long to send or say IMHO. Try "Thanks" (or TU on CW) and, maybe "Roger" (R on CW)if you want a different acknowledgement when you don't send the call. You can say many call
Hi Dave: Yes. Some contests, including WAE, don't have "unassisted" categories. There are people advocating the elimination of "unassisted" categories in the other contests. 73, Mark, KD4D __________
Hi Tor: I, for one, don't agree - I see little difference between "local" skimmers and the worldwide network. To the operator, they look the same during a contest. 73, Mark, KD4D ____________________
Hi Barry: These filtering options need to be done for the individual RBN spot users, not the raw RBN feed. VE7CC or the AR-Cluster needs to implement these as filters that can be selected by the indi
One very effective trick is to find the station that the DX stations is working and match that station's CW speed and frequency. :-) 73, Mark, KD4D _______________________________________________ CQ-
Good day, everyone: I think using this as an opportunity for education is the correct approach. If this is a new contester or a casual participant, he or she may be completely unaware of the issue. L
Good day, everyone: I also strongly agree that the distinction between Single Operator and Single Operator Assisted should be maintained. SO and SO Assisted are NOT the same and arguments that cheati
HI Randy: I didn't see this until now - I was tuning around on 160 meters this weekend. and single operator assisted categories. I am very familiar with assistance and skimmers/RBN and use them in WA
Hi Jim: K5ZD, PY5EG, and LU5DX, among many others, ARE saying "get rid of assisted categories." To quote their recent e-mails: K5ZD: >> For these contests where there is no assisted category, instead
Hi Joe and Everyone: I do not believe that contests that currently consider operators using assistance as multi-operators should modify their existing categories to create a "combined" single operato
I asked at the desk when I checked out whether they were doing something like the reservation system they did last year and was told "No." FWIW... 73, Mark, KD4D I got an offer under my door during t
Hi Stewart: I also don't rent a car. There is a bus terminal half a block from the Crowne Plaza with a bus that stops RIGHT in front of the Hara Arena. I discovered this when my "driver" wanted to le
The hotel shuttle is free... :-) 73, Mark Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone -- Original message -- From: w5gn@mxg.com Date: 5/28/2013 6:06 PM (GMT-05:00) To: 'Neal Campbell' <nealk3nc@g
In CQWW, whether you can change the call depends on whether you sent the other station's callsign - basically whether you were running. See XII 2) That implied you can't correct an exchange error, b