Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:33:26 -0800
Not that I would ever deride the efforts of Mssrs K6NA, K5OT, or N6TV. In fact, they are to be congratulated for what can clearly be considered an odious, boring, and thankless task. With a look towa
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:23:01 -0800
Tim reminds us: Also, such determinations of disqualification are to be made by the ARRL Awards committee, not by anyone involved in log checking or whoever is directly responsible for the contest. S
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:29:25 -0800
The original question posed, as I recall, was trying to make the point of "it's broke, and we need to fix it." And there certainly have been a number of very creative suggestions as to how to go abou
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 14:53:51 -0700
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Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:18:13 -0700
Doug, KR2Q, writes (very eloquently) about a priori knowledge in the skimmer vs. assisted debate. Here's my question, though: When using a packet cluster, you're able to tell what stations are where,
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:26:50 -0700
"My final point is to reassure everyone that not ALL of the errors in the process will be fixed." "I hope that most of you can see the big picture and realize that these cases are just the price to b
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:16:16 -0700
printed in the QST version of the 2008 ARRL DX Phone writeup because all of the tables (Top Ten, Regional, Club Competition, Plaques, etc) were mistakenly left out. Wouldn't it have been much wiser t
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 06:00:32 -0700
magazine and what they don't read. Actually, the ARRL has conducted regular surveys of membership (using an outside vendor) on what members read, don't read, and want to see/don't see in QST. And thr
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:16:16 -0700
Nice job, Hal, but I'm not sure I *completely* agree with your methodology. For one thing, the true indicator of activity in SS (although the ARRL itself never looks at it that way) is the QSO counts
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:02:44 -0800
As the season (as K5ZD once so eloquently put it) draws to a close for the year, once again a great hue and cry has arisen over the state of contesting and ethics. Apparently, some would like to see
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:51:50 -0700
It was written: "By the way, the number of entries is not a meaningful number." Some folks may feel that way, but, unfortunately, that is not going to make it so. The measure of a contest's success h
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:30:30 -0700
pileup with that exact though, "the crowd will be thinner tomorrow and I'll try for a contact then." shorten a contest". There is NO talk about shortening a contest. There should be no rule changes.
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 11:49:58 -0700
I'm trying to remember the year, but it escapes me-- If I recall correctly, the 10-minute rule came about, at least in part, due to the famed "octopus" that the CT DXA came up with, a long time ago.
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:32:16 -0700
Ah, I can see it now... The next big trend in contest stations will be "Hiding Places" (reference Corrie Ten Boom) where operators and equipment can be secreted without being discovered by the CQ WW
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:14:45 -0700
Through all this spirited debate on these subjects, there's a certain attitude out there that disturbs me greatly. This is the attitude of "if you're not doing anything wrong, then you don't have any
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:38:29 -0700
Ah, dupe sheets. The master of dupe sheets has to be Fred Laun, K3ZO. His dupe sheets were HUGE. Easily the size of a table top. I don't know where he got the idea to do that (Fred?), but they were t
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:03:09 -0800
Of course, there is an easy, if unconventional way to address this for W/VE ops: Make states/provinces count for points and multipliers--but only on 10 meters. This way, the "playing field" is levele
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:33:59 -0800
In and among these various discussions about when to QRS... It used to be, once upon a time, the contest rules had "suggested frequencies" for slower speed CW. I suspect they probably evaporated alon
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:32:14 -0700
"If someone doesn't have anything to hide, is clear, not cheating, honest..." (snip) This is the same argument used in the 50's in the US during the McCarthy "Red Scare". It didn't work then, and it
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:42:45 -0700
Yes, Field Day is an operating event. Nobody ever won an award for winning anything in Field Day (although I can think of several prize categories that would have been a lot of fun.) I have to confes