There were several of them, and I heard the Woodpecker as late as spring of 1989. 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http:/
Yep, and there is no excuse for the USA hams on this one. On the east coast, it starts at 8:00 am local, which means you've had a FULL night's sleep and can literally go from rack to operating chair.
I don't have a dog in this race, so I'm not that worked up about it. But, someone alleged that they had heard recordings of DA0HQ reading from a list of calls - essentially labeling the operation as
Itd be interesting to do a hours of operation analysis at the peak of the cycle, as opposed to 2006 which was on the verge of being the absolute bottom of the cycle... While you'll probably see an in
I think there is a desire to eliminate intracountry QSO parties - as in what we see in the IARU contest where large stations make literally hundreds of unique QSOs - all with in-country stations. Now
Be careful what you ask for Rick. You purport to want to level the playing field (something which really can never be done). In fact, you're going to make a perceived disadvantage even worse. If you
That'd be my guess. Probably not more than 100,000 people when you consider Labrador, parts of Quebec and Nunavut. Next in line is probably Zone 40, which cant possibly exceed 500,000 (Iceland and Gr
I was grappling with this issue for my home installation. I used a TA-33jr as my first yagi when I lived in California. It worked well, although it was sorta narrow in terms of bandwidth. In my new h
Agreed. GlobalQsl is the way to do it. 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-c
Heh....It ends at 8:00 pm here now. Which is getting late. On the other hand, it does make "sleep" simpler. I remember on year when I was deciding on 3 hours sleep or so. I couldnt remember if the da
It wont change propagation in general, but it COULD affect decisions on band changes. Under old time change standards, folks on the east coast get perhaps 1 hour of good run time on the high bands be
I remember back in about '88 or '89 when the San Diego DX Club was connected to the Southern Cal DX Club, and we were trying to find a path to the Northern Arizona group. Maybe 7 to 10 nodes, and may
I'm not going to rehash old arguments and debates from the past, but WB9Z's 3830 posting did spark a little question... Did anyone else besides him and I notice a marked increase in the number of W/K
USA percentage of all valid QSOs: 2006 - 4.9 percent 2007 - 6.6 percent On an absolute basis and relative basis, the numbers were up. Significantly on an absolute basis. 73 RIch NN3W ________________
Might be. I've already received 4 stateside requests. All 4 answered. If folks want bang for their stateside QSO buck, they should try sweeps which is all stateside (plus Canada and the islands), all
SNIP Thats not quite true. I know that in a few instances there were two or three USA stations calling and two weak DX stations calling. It was not possible to work the DX stations without having fir
Have any of the major contest sponsors considered an expanded "single band" category in the contests? The JIDX contest or something like that has expanded categories which allow you to have a high ba
Single op is single op. The different factors are if you are running a lot of power or a little or if you've gotten spotted assistance or not. Oh wait. Nevermind. Lets adopt your viewpoint, but in or
You want to cut down on QSO counts for every one? Shut down the clusters. A lot of hams get on during the contests to work new DX countries or work a few here and there. Bad move IMHO. 73 Rich NN3W _
Excuse me? Why should contest sponsors have to answer to the whims of one award program? The ARRL's DXCC program is not the final word when it comes down to record keeping, log posting, QSL sending,