There is some terminology confusion. Dueling CQ's has been built into most contesting software for many years. You send a CQ on one band. When the CQ finishes, a CQ is automatically started on anothe
I began working SS as "Q" then realized that wasn't working due to antenna problems... The next day I changed my category to A... If you changed your sent precedence during the contest, then this is
Granted, however, if you have good antenna systems on both bands (and good propagation on both) and youre running dueling CQs, isnt a potential outcome of both CQs an answer to each, and the ability
This gets into the topic of a relatively new construct for CQWW - Overlay categories. For example, the Classic overlay category - As long as you only used 1 radio and no spotting, then you can enter
Personally I think CR3L did something clever and kudos to them for winning M/M with a M/2 set-up (if that is in fact what they did). Clever ? Hardly. You can argue whether what they did was ethical
1. Unnecessarily repeating phonetics. In most cases, you should be able to say nq6n five nine emm bee. Only if its really challenging or a fill has been requested does it make sense to say november q
Nothing like misquoting Randy's comment ! What he actually said was: "Most unique calls are copying errors. " That's a lot different from your misquote of "which are....obviously busted call signs".
There is a 24 hour category. Single-op, classic. Lots of fun ! 73, Steve, N2IC Steve AA4V Sent from my I-Phone _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@conte
I don't know about 2014, but I can speak to my own experience doing classic in 2015. I operated all but 4 hours of the first 24 hours. On the 2nd day, I operated an hour at 06Z, and 3 hours between 1
For the guys in the top-10 ("the guys that win all the time"), you would lose that bet. Thanks to the RBN, it is very easy to identify "curiously strong" stations. In past NAQP's, a number of those s
"counter-productive anachronism?" Hardly ! Activity in the NAQP increases every year. 73, Steve, N2IC On 01/16/2016 02:24 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote: NAQP does not allow use of spotting assistance on
Please define "better" ? The activity level in both NAQP CW and NAQP SSB is already very high. You never run out of folks to work in NAQP. Increase the level of activity more, and the QRM level will
Better yet, try to work them. When they come back to you, send them the report and "call?". If they ignore you, then move on. You log nothing. They log you. They will get a NIL penalty. Good. 73, Ste
Especially on Sunday, I don't think it will add to your pileup if you ID more frequently. Most of the people in the pileup already know who you are, thanks to the use of spots. The unassisted guys th
This subject has recently come up on the Topband reflector. I look at this from the question: "How much is a dB worth to my score in a DX contest ?" Information about N1UR's contest performance prese
Do you have a solid state drive (SSD) or a conventional hard disk ? An SSD should speed file access to the letter and number files. 73, Steve, N2IC I have for a few years used the voice keying featur
I am a member of the N1MM+ development team. I just completed some measurements of the amount of time in between voicing of characters. I used the @ macro to voice the current receive frequency, and
The answer is easy... When did the Commodore 64 and other affordable home computers come out ? (1982, if you don't remember.) By the late 80's, every technokid was into PC's, not ham radio. 73, Steve
I have been watching this thread unfold on Facebook since last Monday. At first, I was unsympathetic to Braco's arguments, that he was not breaking the current rules. But, reading the rules, he was c
Rudy, I think you have misinterpreted my response. We are talking about the unassisted category. While it is up the the contest directors and managers to make a ruling, I would imagine that for the a