Hi Pedro. I have attempted to comment in your blog post with no luck. Your analysis is not useful to prove who has cheated and who has not. Statistics here do not solve the problem, at least in the w
Exactly Hans a diminished field of candidates, with diminished chances of biased results, by reducing those uncontrollable factors (those that we can reduce - at least-) What's the point of competing
Hi Pedro, Thanks for replying and clarifying. I agree now. That is in fact how it happens. They know what to do and how to do it, in order to avoid being detected. Fortunatelly, not all the checking
Hi all, I will be in Amsterdam from Jan 18th through Jan 25th, 2015. I will have some spare time after regular office hours, so anyone in the area who wants to share a couple of beers please feel fre
Brian you are probably wrong, First of all there are no solid statistics on cheating. Second, packet abuse is the cheapest way of chesting. Third, you can tell by the red cards in several contests, m
Dear Ranko, Some of us have explained and given our reasons as to why we don't think this change is a step forward. So far, those who believe this is a step forward, mainly state their reason why bei
Hi Ed, I've been using Total Recorder for both audio and video recording during contests. It features a built in scheduler so you can split up the weekend in one-hour chunks in advance. http://www.to
I don't think anything's flawed. WRTC is about top contesters. You cannot prove you are a top contester if you are part of a crew. You can only prove you are a top contester by being succesful in SOA
I forgot about the "infrastructural" aspect. The infrastructural thing is the nature of our hobby. Results cannot be fully adjudicated according to the rules of each contest. There are WRTCers who ha
Weird. No spots for ES/407GM However there are spots for ES/4O7GM http://dxlite.g7vjr.org/?dx=es/4o7gm 407GM does not exist in QRZ.com, 4O7GM does. http://qrz.com/db/4o7gm 73, Martin LU5DX On Wed, Ju
Hi Jack, The rule is not intended for casual entrants. http://cqww.com/searchbycall.htm?cl=k3fiv&submit=Go Vy 73, Martin LU5DX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list
Hi Hans, Actually it is all the opposite. Contesting is only possible through the participation of casual entrants. They are generous enough to get on the air give out points and send in their logs.
Hi Bob, I've been using total recorder pro edition for several years now http://www.totalrecorder.com/ It comes with a handy scheduler built-in. This week Jorge CX6VM told me they used RecAll pro edi
The numbers you see in my web page are taken from the Cabrillo headers of the logs received by CQ for the CQ WW DX Contests (2008-2012). I'll try to include the 2013 and 2014 numbers asap. 73, Martin
Hello guys, You may want to remove AZ0F and AZ0H for RCA. Probably there will be LU4AA/H LU4AA/F and LU4AA/D giving out the RCA mult this time around. Update your cty.dat in order to have those /H /F
This is to confirm that the RCA mult will be represented by LU4AA/H and LU4AA/F 73, Martin LU5DX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http
Hi contesters! I'll be in Las Vegas from 8/8 to 8/12 then heading to Seattle, WA and I'll stay there until 8/21. Looking forward to good beer and contesting conversation with local hams! Feel free to
Amazing improvements!!! I've just run the predictions for CQWW SSB/CW. Looking good!!! 73, Martin LU5DX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.c