Boy, it would be interesting to know who a few more (maybe top 10 by rate) of the runners-up were. I don't normally contest on SSB, but did so for a few hours this past weekend, and was amazed by th
I raised this on the N1MM reflector a few days ago when I discovered that N1MM didn't offer the overlay, and was told that the new overlay *was* on the log submission page. It's kind of infuriating
Funny, I was just reflecting on this the other day, when I ran out of gas in SS about 10 PM on Saturday - just the opposite of what one should do to score well. Of course, I'm 82, my first SS was in
Joe, you could probably clarify things if you would just say whether or not you will profit from sales of these products. 73, Pete N4ZR It is just the results of an experiment I did. I havent been ab
I'm 82, been contesting since the 1954 SS, and really don't much care about a oldster overlay. I get my kicks from the process of making lots of Qs for however long I can, and contributing them to m
I'm skeptical about that, Mike - my peak time spent in a contest was CQWW back on the early 2000s, at about 37 hours. I have trouble doing half that now - not the way to win, even if I had a station
During last weekend's 10-M contest, I worked a DL station who was loud but T8, with a pronounced buzz on his signal. I went to e-mail him to tell him about it, but alas - no e-mail on any of the usu
The reason I almost always operate Assisted is that (for me - YMMV) the frustration of tuning up and down the band, entering call after call in my logger only to find that it's a dupe, generally outw
Unfortunately, I've noticed that a lot of clusters still turn off RBN spots by default - I'm not opposed to having the option, but wonder how many juicy CW/RTTY QSOs are missed because people don't k
Bizarre 73, Pete N4ZR When the results appeared, I saw that I had a score reduction of more than 9%. This is very high for me and much higher than the other stations around my score. I wrote to the c
Hi Barry - the difference is that the traditional cluster network relied on spots sent manually by individual stations also connected to a cluster. The RBN, on the other hand, is over 200 nodes worl
I would rank most of us below the Japanese when it comes to average operating etiquette, but it's worth remembering that particularly on the high bands callers often can't hear each other, and the "1
Frankly, given the cluster of Remote Ham Radio sites with excellent antennas and full legal power in Maine, I am inclined to the belief that it is an ME vs MO ttpo. RHR could surely clarify this fro
Sure, but he's not the only one doing 2BSIQ. That isn't enough to explain a win from MO. I shouldn't have called it a "typo", but why doesn't the op himself tell the world which MO station he was o
Looking at his last sentence, I don't think Rich is advocating against vaccination - exactly the contrary. He seems to be saying it has worked for him and his mother, despite a variety of relatively
I don't think it's "either/or". My contest operating these days is 100% CW, all assisted (99 percent RBN) and almost all S&P - but I'm acutely aware of the risk of bad spots. On CW, these days, bad
I'm not aware of any minimum speed, but suspect that at slow speeds, hand-sent CW may vary from the ideal often enough so that Skimmer will get confused. Joe, if you want to experiment and have the
I'm not super tekky, but I doubt that AI recognition of SSB callsigns is likely on typical ham PCs. 73, Pete N4ZR I do hope that most readers of this group realized that my suggesting using AI do dec