I was reading a few months ago about a researcher who did some experiments on low level activity and weight control. Turns out that a constant low level of activity can be a great way to control weig
Hear hear! I've dealt with many extremely talented people who are for lack of a better word - worthless. Had a few work for me. Talent without drive is no gift - more of a curse. If more people would
This is a great demonstration of why I simply love serial numbers as an exchange. -73 de Mike N3LI - _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com
Suffice it to say that the young fellow did indeed need feedback. Feedback to the Noobs is a delicate proposition in any endeavor, not just contesting. Whoever does it has to make a quick psych asses
Dunno about what John would do, but if it were my contest, I'd thank David for the find, then I'd send personal email to the new guy explaining exactly what the problem was, and why he was not copace
A couple reasons: Dunno about WPX, but for us, the plaques are automatically selected in the software. the results are tabulated, and the right awardee is sent to the right plaque design. I'd have to
At first I was thinking that a chest full of medals might be a little silly, as well as bad for the back of the more successful Ops, but this has me thinking.. How about really nice pins such as can
Think of it this way Hank - those folks who think they *have* to stay on 14230 aren't moving to other frequencies and depriving you of places to operate other than 14230. You're winning that one! Gen
I'm excited. I've always liked the format of State parties, and they can coax me away from my paperwork. Having rotating sponsorship is a pretty good idea. While there can be some uneveness, it might
Sounds like a little self policing would help more than PR. If I knew someone was jamming me or swearing at me, I'd record them and turn them in. You already have most of the parts. The SSTV'er trans
Let me put on the adjudicator hat here for a minute..... Jim was operating during a contest in which the mode he was operating was not a valid mode to submit a log. So the question is was it acceptab
If you haven't started operating yet, *your* start of the contest happened when you first started transmitting. Don't look at time off as some sort of "thing". It is just something carved out of the
The idea of what to have as an exchange has been an issue for a while now. As a person who's first several contest efforts were with serialized exchanges, I was kind of surprised by the 599 automatic
IIRC, one of the big reasons that it wasn't adopted was that it didn't do much for the state parties, made the entry a little more complicated - it is much easier to have a typo - and required them t
As a wild guess, I'd say you don't like serial numbers in general? Looking at what is in the logs, PAQSO gets a lot of casual activity. I usually have a dozen or more Ops myself who ask what the exch
Make no mistake about it. If the PAQSO were to start today, I would use the MARAC county standard acronyms. Now that made me smile. I regularly get my chops busted for introducing changes and adding
The results for the 2008 version of the Pennsylvania QSO Party have been posted at http://www.nittany-arc.net/paqso.html Certificates are partway mailed out, plaques are at the engravers, T-shirts an
Hello all, QST In the PAQSO Party spirit of innovation and always wanting to try something new, we're going to be adding some new classes to the 2009 Party. The first new class is the "poor setup cla
Jim, that is such a good idea, I'm not even going to wait a year - I'll append it onto this year's award groups. In these uncertain propagation times, it will be a great way to get a good signal from
Despite all claims, I have to suspect that integrity has always been an issue. Who was it that said, "Don't attribute to malice that which can easily be explained by stupidity"? In the middle of comp