http://naqp.contesting.com With the January CW NAQP only 11 days away, the NAQP team is happy to announce the NAQP CW Scores Database ! Have you ever contemplated these questions ? : - What are the a
Sorry, Tonno, but most of your arguments either 1) defy logic or 2) are poor reasons for combining the categories. See my comments below. 73, Steve, N2IC I vote for combining Assisted and non-Assiste
Comments inline. 73, Steve, N2IC "...Written from the viewpoint of someone who is always on the receiving-end of 48 hour pileups. For the other 99% of us, combining the two categories does not increa
Try it Saturday night ! I hope to work a few hundred new players ! http://www.kkn.net/n6tr/sprint.html 73, Steve, N2IC 73, Hans, K0HB How do you make contesting more attractive to little guns and cas
To me, it's not the points contributed, it's the number of active stations that matter. I'll define "active" as those stations who put in 10 or more hours. As the author of the upcoming Phone SS writ
Because it's simply not going to happen. If you want an SS-like contest where you can work stations on every band, then the NAQP is for you. 73, Steve, N2IC 73, Alan/K6SRZ To me, it's not the points
It's a little hard to follow, so here's a second-by-second account of most of this... 00:05 - Finishing QSO with KS4YX on right radio. As soon as Dan tells KS4YX "TU" on right radio, he starts CQ on
Many of you are overreacting and misrepresenting to my original comment. An example of this is WW4B's statement "I am extremely upset by the whole idea that the rules are off the table". I never said
Oh, you mean places like your home state of Georgia, where W4AN won 10 years ago, and N4OO (ex-NA4BW) and N4PN continue to do very well ? If you live in one of those areas why would you want it to ch
73, Gerry W1VE That has nothing to do with it. As the number of multipliers continues to grow (80->83->???) the current records will be broken. 73, Steve, N2IC _______________________________________
Yes, the fix is simple: shorten the overall length to 24 hours. Still keep a required off time of 6 hours. > The off time is important to allow stations in different parts of the country to choose t
I don't know what software you were using, but speaking for N1MM Logger, there are a number of ways to deal with this problem. In the bandmap or available window, you can right-click and select "Blac
I am in the process of finishing the writeup for the 2012 Phone Sweepstakes. I would appreciate any good stories and photographs from your fun ! If you have previously posted your story to 3830 or th
Stan, Getscores has been up for more than five years, and the Russian site has been up for a year or so. No contesting authority has made any restriction against the sites, and I don't think they wil
I would say nothing from the internet except for personal safety (i.e. local WX radar) and non-contesting entertainment (i.e. CNN). Despite what the rules currently allow, I will not be viewing the s
Does acceptable, pre-contest, external help include loading up your bandmap with internet+skimmer spots just before the contest starts, and then turning off the internet at 0000Z ? This came up a num
Since you did not sign your posting with your call and name, I have no perspective for your comments. This makes you an internet troll. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29 . 73, Steve,
The problem is that I am on the back of the antennas of most stations. NA stations want to work SA or EU, Not all NA stations, just those stations in the eastern USA. For those of us in the western
Has anyone found a way to add a transmit inhibit to the TS-590S ? The idea is to implement a lock-out capability in a multi-transmitter environment. Most modern radios have an input line the allows t
Ron, IIRC, the primary reason you stopped submitting logs is because you objected to the logs becoming "public", viewable by anyone. Well, you can start submitting logs again, because despite your be