As you may know we have all sorts of issues in this part of the world with getting people to turn their beams in a contest. So if I come across a station calling CQ who clearly cannot hear me, is it
"I believe that this violates CQWW General Rule IX 8 "All requests for contacts, responses to calls, and copying of call signs and contest exchanges must be accomplished during the contest period usi
Hi Leo If a pile up makes the DX station turn his beam that is fine by me. Normally it isn't an issue anyway as in most situations they are calling CQ with no takers - which makes it doubly frustrati
One theme that seems to have been touched upon in the recent flurry of emails is the increasing lack of participation in CW contests. Maybe CW contest organisers in general could look at promoting sl
Since we are on this topic (in the SS thread) and I am sure the Oceania Contest committee won't mind me letting the cat out of the bag, I thought I would add they are going to promote slow speed CW i
I was looking for something else and stumbled across this on the interweb. I hope ES5TV doesn't mind me posting the link. It sure make interesting reading now. http://www.lhv.ee/images/files/2017.pdf
That's easy, I can do it in nine words. "It is whatever the contest organiser says 'assistance' means". 73 Mark ZL3AB _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contes
On the E6Y dxpedition last year we entered the Oceania CW contest. We discovered rather quickly that S&P was hopeless as people struggled to copy our callsign so we simply ran and gave up chasing mul
I have a vague feeling the Dr DX code was written (yes written) out in a 1980s edition of the ARRL operating manual. I think it was the 4th edition. Unfortunately I don't have a copy any longer to co
A tale from the other side of the pile up. A few years ago I was part of the E6Y Dxpedition to Niue and naturally we chose E6Y for its brevity. One of the reasons we went when we did was to participa
I had a look at the CQ WW rules for a definition of self spotting and there doesn't seem to be one. Therefore the question I have is: if you operate a skimmer and it spots you during the CQ WW CW con