After going thru some 17,000 spots from the CQ WPX SSB contest over the past week, I figured it was time to share some of my work with the reflector. As in the ARRL DX contests, I again found evidenc
Dave - Thanks for your note. I am making no accusation of any wrongdoing by KA6BIM. I'm sorry you see it differently. I merely ran some numbers. I don't believe you did anything wrong at all. I'm jus
Jim - Thanks for your note. I should have been more clear in my original posting. I opened the discussion about self spotting, but then posted data on something else. That was probably a mistake and
US Inactives-WPX This is a list of the inactive US calls which made spots in the 2002 WPX SSB. The calls were checked with both Buckmaster and the WM7D.net databases. All of these spots originated fr
The first example from the 2002 WPX SSB is LV7H. During the contest, there were 54 spots of LV7H. 34 of those came from DX Summit. Of those 34 spots, 27 of the spotting calls were unique - meaning th
The next example, PY2NDX is different from all of the others presented here. There were 51 WPX spots of PY2NDX. 32 of those spots were made thru a node in Spain. Of the 28 stations that spotted thru
LT1F During the WPX contest, there were over 130 spots of LT1F. Of those, 55 spots came via mIRC - those will be the spots that this data concerns. Of those 55 spots via mIRC, 43 of the calls were un
RA0FU There were 17 spots of RA0FU during the WPX SSB contest. Of those 17, 8 spots were via IRC/DX Summit. Those eight calls produced eight unique spots and as many as six inactive calls, including
Example: NU1AW would respond to W1AW's call by sending: W1AW 123 B NU1AW 71 CT, which indicates QSO number 123, B for Single Op High Power, NU1AW, first licensed in 1971, and in the Connecticut secti
Several people have written about "FU" suffixes....I got my ticket at the University of Florida club station, which has the call W4DFU. One time in an SSB contest, there was some horrible pileup that
If you check KA1LMR's spots from ARRL SSB and the New Hampshire QSO Party in February, you find that the following stations supposedly spotted him - ALL of these calls are NOT active - as in, the cal
First, I have to say I am always amazed at the negative reviews the TS-2000 gets from people who have never touched it. I'm not sure what spurs this - but seemingly whenever someone asks about it, th
It is great to have those results on line from CQ. The folks at CQ magazine are to be commended. As I read the beginning of the writeup though, I was jolted out of my seat by the need for some better
Here is one idea - some of you have video cameras. Take some video during a contest. Edit it together. It doesn't have to be super-duper professional. Tell a story, show people on the air having fun.
I understand NQ4I's complaints. He feels like too much time is being wasted on domestic QSO's that don't count. But then again, NQ4I is one of the loudest signals on the band and that attracts S&P co
K8MR writes about Super Check Partial: <I find that the greatest value of SCP is not figuring out if whether it is <N6, N7, or N8TR calling. It is when you've copied a call you think you <have but ab
We have had a pretty lively discussion in recent weeks on what really constitutes assistance and what does not. For some live scoreboards and propagation tools are bad. For others, the spotting netwo
If you get rid of the Assisted category - who does it help or hurt? The first people it actually helps would be the low power crowd. Right now it makes no sense to go assisted and low power, because
It is often said that Assisted operators will score better than their un-assisted competitors if we had one single-op category in contesting. So...let's look at the scores from the ARRL DX CW and SSB