I realize that I have an odd sense of what counts as "interesting" and "fun", but....it might be kind of fun and interesting if a collection of stats were made easily available for public review and
Shhhh! Don't give away the secret! Seriously thought.... I'm leery of "there ought to be a rule" type discussions, especially as regards to attempts to regulate good behavior. And there are plenty of
You can sound the all-clear. Yesterday was the last day of the prior creation. Today is the first day of the new creation. Here's hoping the 14th b'ak'tun is better than the 13th. :) -- *Michael D. A
I thought the District was a state of mind, or insanity, or gridlock, or something along those lines. If I lived in the District, I'd be very tempted to use the name "DC" during the tests. -- *Michae
"QRL?" is unambiguous. A simple "?" may be open to interpretation. During sweepstakes, I had a psychic contact with VY1EI. I only have wire antennas, they aren't positioned the best in the world to g
The rules (http://cq160.com/rules.htm) indicate that there is a SO(A) category in CQ 160. However, there is no unique SO(A)LP category. ARRL 160 rules (http://www.arrl.org/160-meter) relegate cluster
I wouldn't know. I tune 100Hz off the pin, work St. Peter, and move on rather than sticking around to count. :) -- *Michael D. Adams* (N1EN) Poquonock, Connecticut | mda@n1en.org ____________________
I wonder if that's really the right way to interpret those figures. I wonder (and this is pure speculation on my part) if the higher rate of assistance among high power users might be related somehow
Doug KR2Q asks: I'm answering here from the viewpoint of a relative newcomer to amateur radio, one who enjoys contesting but has no real delusions of being a "serious" competitor. One of the reasons
I will preface this by saying that I don't think a rule change is needed here. At least among non-phone contests, and assuming no constraints on where to operate, there's plenty of space for anyone w
If memory serves, propagation in November 2011 was wonderful. November 2012...not so much. While SFI figures were similar for the 2011 and 2012 phone tests, if you look at the SFI in the couple of we
If it weren't for one thing, I'd make a comment about TCG surely having a desire to be able to welcome any Tennessee-based contester to submit a score for the club. However, having grown up in Memphi
This is probably too character-changing...but what if there were an additional restricted-time entry class for Sweepstakes, a separate category for operators who start at 1500Z Sunday, and go through
I'm not an old-timer, but I was lead to understand that the reason behind the SS exchange's format was that the contest is drawn from a traffic-handling tradition. If you're passing traffic to a stat
Isn't year licensed part of the SS exchange? You'd have to impose a rule restricting recent years licensed to legitimate rookies, and we do have pesky issue of having just passed the centennial of am
True, but "date of first license" is how rookies are already identified in a couple of ARRL and CQ contests. It's a pretty objective, somewhat verifiable metric. -- Michael D. Adams (N1EN) | Poquonoc
One datapoint to support this: I just looked up my call at RBN. It appears that I was spotted 30 times this weekend. However, I was 100% S&P during the contest. I did not call CQ at all this weekend.
Considering that I had over 1150 S&P Q's, being mis-spotted a few times during a contest doesn't seem too bad to me. There are a few folks who would love to have that kind of accuracy coming out of l
I wonder if there's a way to do that now, with the information already being provided. You have multiple skimmers reporting one or two callsigns at a given frequency in a short period of time. Each s
It's probably worth noting that in all 20 cases, the EK1LZ spots appear to have been unique, coming from only one skimmer. (Different skimmers at different times, but only one at a time.) -- *Michael