Hi, Have you ever wondered what your signal sounds like in Aurora-ridden Finland? Now you can find out: I've uploaded logs and audio of my SO2R/SOSB contest efforts from OH6LI's station as OH4A since
Call for Contributions Your contesting magazine PileUP! is again breaking barriers and will publish a special theme issue on "Budget contesting" to go with the times. We welcome low-cost-contesting a
Hi, I will be in Kansas City, MO, for a conference at the end of this month, leaving for home on the morning of Saturday 29th. If there is a single-op possibility or a multi-op effort in the general
The Nordic Radio Amateur Union invites you to the 53rd Scandinavian Activity Contest (SAC), taking place as follows: CW: 17-18 September, 12 UTC - 12 UTC SSB: 8-9 October, 12 UTC - 12 UTC Full rules,
Busy this weekend? Here's a good excuse to relax instead. Whether you were going to shovel snow, repair the surf board, or get a tan, get inside. Sunspots are at a C24 record, and who cares about a C
Dear Barry, Sorry to hear about the troubles that you've had with the log robot. We've done our best, but unavoidably some glitches always remain. It was a well "attended" SAC CW this time, and we're
Dear all, Please submit your logs from the CW leg of the Scandinavian Activity Contest before 24:00 UTC tomorrow on Sunday, 2nd October. Click http://www.sactest.net and the "Upload contest log" butt
Dear all, This year's Scandinavian Activity Contest on CW was a great success, despite the poor propagation. Up to the deadline, over 1180 logs were submitted. This breaks the previous record number
Hello all, The deadline for logs from the SSB part of this year's Scandinavian Activity Contest is Sunday 23 October, 2400 UTC. Please upload your log at http://www.sactest.net if you haven't already
Hello all, The final results of the CW part of Scandinavian Activity Contest 2011 were delivered to the webmaster at http://www.sactest.net yesterday and should be uploaded shortly, together with a b
Dear all, The logchecking of this year's Scandinavian Activity Contest SSB is now complete. The final results will be published on http://www.sactest.net in the next days, with the CW results having
Hi, "IMHO, the more contesters do real-time posting, the more fun the contest will be for all participants. I bet scores will go up, records will be broken, and the publishers will have more to write
Dear all, In addition to being on the air, the Radio Arcala station network will be on-line in this weekend's CQWW SSB. In an effort to promote the social and spectator aspects of our sport, along wi
Radio Arcala, a Finnish-based initiative for developing leading-egde Amateur Radio technology and concepts, has taken another advance initiative for the contest community to review. It is about viabi
Hi, I just took the CQWW survey, and one question in particular sparked a further question: What is the origin and rationale for the CQWW rule where North American stations get 2 points for intra-con
Hi, For the second year in a row, the Scandinavian Activity Contest is featuring a trial in "National Team Contesting," this weekend on CW (12z - 12z). This means that six top-tier entrants are selec
Dear all, Bob's N6BK / HS0ZIA e-mail to the reflector triggered some (long...) thoughts in my head. He wondered why North American (NA) stations in CQWW get 2 points for each NA QSO outside their own
Kelly, I think we all agree that the continental divides and the 1/3-point rule make it impossible for just anybody from anywhere to win. VE4 is probably even more disadvantaged than OH6 in terms of
Dear Mike, I agree that leaving out AF was quite an oversight on my part, thanks for bringing it up. To see whether this really changes the situation I again looked at the numbers. There are 77 AF co
Gents, Taking into account the added analysis (thanks for the prompting critique, Mike W0MU) about the negligible effect of AF, is somebody on the reflector actually able to rebut in point-by-point f