Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:30:26 -0700
Doing so, however, would defeat one of the main reasons for open logs in the first place, ensuring a fair log adjudication process. Not ten days ago, on this very reflector, some specific examples we
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:27:25 -0700
I can't speak for Ward directly, but as the author of the last two 10 Meter Contest results articles, I can tell you that: (b) The QST Results, Printable Line Scores, Web Report, LCRs, and contest re
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:09:57 -0700
I wouldn't look at it like that. As authors, we are encouraged to write as much as we want to about the contest and let the professional editors make it fit in the magazine. If I hadn't had a very sh
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 07:35:09 -0700
With all due respect, this is probably because you have been a licensed ham for a very long time :-) I've been licensed for 15 years and an ARRL member for about 12. I still find plenty of interestin
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:45:02 -0700
For those who do not receive the ARRL Letter and like to complain a lot about QST... -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.com/ ______________________________________
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:31:22 -0700
I know the complaint today is about people who do not post to 3830 at all, but eventually we'll hear from people who think the post to 3830 needs to be done within an hour of the contest ending or so
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 12:16:00 -0700
Cool. I've played around with the QST on CD-ROM trying to see if it would be useful for extracting old line scores into computer-readable format. When I tried it a few years ago, my conclusion was th
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:00:22 -0700
Wow. Even ignoring the line scores, that article is at least twice as long as any results article published in recent years. -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.com
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:18:44 -0700
One of the fun parts of the Sweepstakes is working college and university club stations on the air for the Collegiate Championship. Check out the results from 2007: http://www.collegiatechampionship.
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:35:00 -0700
David, Without a time-limit or a band-change restriction, it would be effectively impossible for a log checker to distinguish between a multi-single and a multi-multi station. The station could opera
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 22:11:45 -0700
I can't tell if this is being said as a joke or not. Unless the contest changes the UTC times in which it is run, the amount of daylight you get will be the same as it always has been. Let's say that
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:08:02 -0800
Typo and/or transcription from poor handwriting. N4PN's score matches his other numbers. K1BX's score makes sense if his QSO number is really 1384. -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com h
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:08:55 -0800
I was jammed by this same station this weekend as well. In my case, he used a recording of a different contest station calling CQ on top of me. In my case, there was no advanced warning or discussion
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:58:47 -0800
Claimed scores for the 2008 Collegiate Championship: http://www.collegiatechampionship.org/claimed/2008/ There are still quite a few colleges and universities that were on the air making contacts in
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:27:10 -0800
If you log their call sign correctly, and they log K3PS instead of K3PH, they will have busted your call sign and be assessed the penalty, but you should get full credit for the QSO (or, if it is a d
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:20:26 -0800
I hear this complaint (mostly from CW ops) a lot. Let me offer a different perspective. As a single op unassisted, if I dial across a station working people without giving a call sign, it is often fa
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 10:39:32 -0800
This is the third or fourth email in the past couple of days where the poster assumes that a busted call sign will result in a Not In Log penalty. Which is not true at all. If somebody busts your cal
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:07:04 -0800
I think there is _plenty_ of evidence that some contesters are choosing to cheat, and that these cheaters are being exposed: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/2008-12/msg00101.html http://lists
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:23:26 -0800
I will be in Chicago (O'Hare Airport area) on Thursday, January 22. Any contesters up for dinner? -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.com/ _________________________
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:44:15 -0800
This depends on the model of keyboard I think. I have two identical Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combos (a model that is now obsolete) in my office at work, sitting practically side-by-side, and