I wish radio manufacturers would get on board and commit to implementing IMD correction like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIimiVMmhmM Imagine SSB DX contests if all the signals were that cle
I heartily concur with Pete's suggestion. There should be a spirit of actively encouraging reports and recordings toward cleaning up the bands during contests. My experience is that the majority of o
I applaud the efforts to nail down the exact meaning of "excessive bandwidth" going forward. btw, it's a trivial exercise to create a minute or two video/audio clip of the SDR panadapter as "evidence
"There are many very nice things about SDRs, but they have two Achillies' Heels -- 1) dynamic range of their input stage is not great enough for most contesting . . . "#1 can be eliminated for overlo
Does that also apply to noise cancelling headphones in general? Thanks & 73, Barry N1EU _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.
Instead of the situation improving over the past 15 years with more awareness, key clicks on the bands during contests have gotten much worse. I've copied excerpts from score postings from W1UE and N
Thanks to the efforts of Vasily K3IT, there's a really slick interface for searching for recordings of your contest qso's at https://qsorder-k3it.rhcloud.com/ Right now, it searches recordings of QSO
I support this suggestion. I am definitely warming up my panadapter. 73, Barry N1EU _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.cont
I used a K3s last weekend and used a different radio in CQ WW CW. I spent about the same amount of time running but I definitely experienced more key clicks in this contest. It is very likely that th
Can we please just stop all this nonsense about making a K3 click? Maybe there was one errant firmware release 6 years ago that was quickly fixed. But the K3 has been about THE cleanest cw transmitte
The K3 rise time isn't 2.5msec. Here's what N6KR said on the subject to the Field tester group in May 2010. This comment was partly in response to whether rise time would be shortened for the new K3
Based on my experience this weekend, I've got to question whether more than a handful of assisted European operators even tune the bands, rather than just click on spots. Not sure if assisted America
Ron, I think your experience is common. And I'll repeat once more: We need an S&P only category in the major dx contests! Give folks a viable option if they choose to avoid all the out-muscling, spla
In a word, you don't. 73, Barry N1EU _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
You didn't specify which mode. Field Day would be a good training ground for ssb/cw running - it's generally a very relaxed event. Alternately, high in the band in any cw contest. Or high in the band
It would be interesting if a major ssb dx contest dared to restrict the percentage/duration of time you could run on 40/20/15M. 73, Barry N1EU _______________________________________________ CQ-Conte
The selection by year and search by callsign don't seem to be working. 73, Barry N1EU _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.co