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361. Re: [CQ-Contest] World Wide Digi DX Contest Results. (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 17:15:10 +0000
That is nonsense, and N2RJ knows it - it's yet another example of disregard for reality.  The computer runs the show only in data contests, and especially in those with semi or fully-automated exchan
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-01/msg00199.html (10,443 bytes)

362. Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ 160m contest-vs-DXCC rule problem (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 20:43:17 +0000
On 03/02/2020 19:57, N2RJ wrote: ARRL declared this type of remote operation OK for DXCC some years ago - you can operate from W6, work Macau, minami torishima, Philippines etc then hop on a remote o
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-02/msg00030.html (10,985 bytes)

363. Re: [CQ-Contest] Merging Social Media and Contesting (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:57:35 +0000
It's simple - either you use ham-band RF, and nothing but ham-band RF,  to find, facilitate, and confirm your contacts - or you don't. If you use, or in any way depend upon, other communications mode
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-03/msg00088.html (10,656 bytes)

364. Re: [CQ-Contest] Merging Social Media and Contesting (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 08:16:37 +0000
His CQs, exchanges, and solicitations were not relayed over the internet. Whether by accident or design, and whether directly or indirectly, W2RE used the internet to find or facilitate or confirm co
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-03/msg00095.html (10,630 bytes)

365. Re: [CQ-Contest] Merging Social Media and Contesting (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 13:41:19 +0000
  >  <snip>   >   > We can't stop innovating. That's what ham radio is all about. The clear and immediate danger is that we will "innovate" ham radio into something else entirely. Do we innovate ches
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-03/msg00115.html (12,491 bytes)

366. Re: [CQ-Contest] Merging Social Media and Contesting (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 15:05:51 +0000
  > Except that fundamentally FTx is simply an encode/decode system. It is fundamentally a software modem, optimized for processing weak-signal data.   > It doesn't have to be semi-automated or fully
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-03/msg00126.html (15,122 bytes)

367. Re: [CQ-Contest] Need for Rules and Enforcement Governing Commercial Entities Competing in Amateur Radio Contests (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:51:02 +0000
as I know As W3LPL says, in some respects the "amateur" went out of amateur radio almost 100 years ago.  It appears to have continued to this day. How can there be fairness in contesting when relevan
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-03/msg00151.html (10,762 bytes)

368. Re: [CQ-Contest] 2-3 May : 4 QSO Parties! (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:58:53 +0100
No matter where you live, you can participate in all four at once using N1MM+ Logger. It is the only weekend where this happens. N1MM lets you enter all the exchanges as received without switching lo
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-04/msg00105.html (8,039 bytes)

369. Re: [CQ-Contest] 2-3 May : 4 QSO Parties! (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 23:51:02 +0100
SD creates a single Cabrillo combined log which should be sent to all four contest sponsors.  As Dick K4XU says, "there is no need to weed out non-counting contacts, they do it all".  That's a "featu
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-04/msg00109.html (8,101 bytes)

370. Re: [CQ-Contest] CQM Adjudication (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 15:19:55 +0100
As this was a "first time ever" to actually participate, not just make a few contacts, I find the unique approach toward scoring, indefensible? Contest sponsors are entitled to define whatever rules
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-05/msg00041.html (8,045 bytes)

371. Re: [CQ-Contest] "Test" At End of CQ (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 08:43:01 +0100
... "test" at the end of a CQ completely throws off the rhythm of answering a CQ. If you need that "test" to tell you it's time to call, you need to go back to contesting school! Please explain the p
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-06/msg00000.html (7,611 bytes)

372. Re: [CQ-Contest] Updated Contest Announcement from OH2BH (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2020 17:41:19 +0100
JUNE.05.2020, HELSINKI, FINLAND *LAST MINUTE BREAKING NEWS FROM THE FOLKS OF STAYHOME MOVEMENT* STAYHOME RADIO EVENT STARTS ON SATURDAY AT 10:00 UTC ON CW, SSB and FT8 SD Contest Logger V21.30, free
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-06/msg00104.html (7,761 bytes)

373. [CQ-Contest] Excessive Bandwidth (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 23:18:13 +0100
For as long as contest sponsors refuse to define "excessive bandwidth", they give themselves plenty of wriggle room (the do-nothing option) when presented with reports of key clicks or splatter. I co
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-06/msg00136.html (9,669 bytes)

374. Re: [CQ-Contest] [Contest] 2020 June VHF Contest (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 23:28:14 +0100
<snip> I see little difference between the attitude expressed in this post and those who, in the '50s and '60s, refused to switch to that new-fangled SSB. I also fail to see how FT8 differs from RTTY
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-06/msg00181.html (8,461 bytes)

375. Re: [CQ-Contest] Rules for SAC 2020 (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:52:09 +0100
Another way of saying that SO Unassisted is no longer an option in SAC? 73, Paul EI5DI _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.c
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-08/msg00061.html (7,276 bytes)

376. Re: [CQ-Contest] Rules for SAC 2020 (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:43:46 +0100
"Allowing for assistance in all operator categories" may be true, but it is not the whole truth.  What you (the SAC Committee) have done is abolish the SO Unassisted category. This benefits no one bu
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-08/msg00093.html (10,471 bytes)

377. Re: [CQ-Contest] Rules for SAC 2020 (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 15:40:57 +0100
Given a choice I generally prefer unassisted operation myself, That's my point - the "SAC folks" have unilaterally removed that choice  - and dressed it up as "allowing for assistance in all categor
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-08/msg00098.html (14,409 bytes)

378. [CQ-Contest] Distributed Contesting (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 16:49:33 +0100
Last month, W3LPL and K3LR announced that they had decided not to compete in any multi-op category in the 2020 CQ WW contests. http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-09/msg00036.h
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-10/msg00033.html (13,293 bytes)

379. Re: [CQ-Contest] Distributed Contesting (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 09:46:32 +0100
You'll have to live with it.  With remote operation the RF between the stations remains the same.  Therefore, it doesn't matter where the remote operator is. That's the bottom line - we all have to g
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-10/msg00064.html (9,859 bytes)

380. Re: [CQ-Contest] Key Clicks.... Continuing Problem (score: 1)
Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:12:53 +0000
On 13/11/2020 22:49, Michael Ritz wrote: Not that it means much, but I am in the process of updating the ARRL General Contest rules to include "clean signal" requirements, including key clicks and sp
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-11/msg00067.html (9,510 bytes)


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