Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 20:18:49 +0200
Am 06.10.2016 um 18:10 schrieb Drew Vonada-Smith: Tossing out every contact that is a nuisance to verify is no solution. Tossing out uniques that are causal contacts is also baloney. These contacts a
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:08:08 +0200
Pete, could you please specify the intended consequences for those contests and national radio leagues and clubs not obeying to this world contest governing body? ARRL should present a planned DQ to
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 17:20:06 +0200
Ron, you misunderstood me. My point is whether it should be meant that any contest organizer like ARRL or VERON really should obey to any informal "group of the wise guys" before that organizer is al
Dear contesters, just want to remind you of Worked All Germany (WAG) Contest this weekend starting Saturday 1500 UTC. We expect comparatively good condx and up to 2000 German stations on the air. All
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:57:17 +0200
Hi Contester, before you dive completely into WWDX please check your PC for a possibly still unsent log from Worked All Germany Contest. The two dozen ops with four digit QSO numbers may know that by
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 11:52:14 +0100
Hello contesters, the raw scores of WAG 2016 before logcheck are published at http://www.darc.de/der-club/referate/dx/contest/wag/ergebnisse-aktuell/ Please check for correct category and a score in
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 17:55:58 +0100
Am 11.11.2016 um 15:25 schrieb W0MU Mike Fatchett: We are working contests with the same archaic rules and systems for lots and lots of years. People give me pretty strange looks when I say yeah I ta
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 19:38:43 +0100
Am 03.12.2016 um 15:13 Kevan Nason quoted IARU paper: "Why is the word *contest* the last word in your contest CQ? Because by doing so, someone who happens to tune across your frequency at the end of
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:13:10 +0100
About cluster/RBN/skimmer usage, figures from the 2015 WAG survey: 426 German participants: Q: Do you use: Clusterspots 61% RBN-Spots 25% Own Skimmer 3% Nothing of the above 37% 85 English speaking r
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 23:37:12 +0100
Hi Pete, it is Q31 from the files with the full Q&A set plus freetext comments at the bottom of the linked page http://www.darc.de/der-club/referate/dx/contest/wag/en/newsarchives/survey-2015/ Its wo
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:53:47 +0100
Am 16.12.2016 um 16:39 schrieb .. VE5ZX: Now I will crawl back into my hole before the guns start blazing Well immunized against any comment with differing opinion... Thinking about marathon runners
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 12:19:20 +0100
Hi contesters, the final results of WAG 2016 are published on our website: http://www.darc.de/der-club/referate/dx/contest/wag/en/ Below the webreport are some additional spots of experience about th
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 14:14:36 +0100
What a huge potential in the proposals for selfspotting: Allowing them in unlimited number will force competitors to use this tool to the max thus evolving sophisticated software schemes to optimize
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 06:06:51 +0100
Am 26.02.2017 um 22:46 schrieb Pete Smith N4ZR: Vince, if someone showed up at your door, identified himself, and showed you a letter from the contest committee asking him to visit you during the con
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:06:33 +0100
Hi, an update of software HDSDR now allows to extract fieldstrength values from SDR recordings (several per second). I played a bit with CW and SSB signals from our TopTen stations in 2016 http://www
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:13:26 +0200
If this is the reality of seemingly too many ops being unable to find a station without someone putting a spot on the net, then we will have more and more cries to allow selfspotting (for the sake of
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 22:44:48 +0200
Am 17.04.2017 um 21:41 schrieb Dennis McAlpine: Certainly, the Committee doesn't know if I am doing it on purpose or not You would try to monitor him that closely for hours on six bands so that you c
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:40:12 +0200
Allowing selfspots means CQing on the internet including twitter and Facebook postings with an attracting picture, announcement "Now on 21250 beaming XYZ", written in languages of the target area. It
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 16:52:25 +0200
Couldn't resist to share this link about a regular contributor and his chores distracting him from the only relevant contesting activities ;-) https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/autos/news/articles/ke
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:19:32 +0100
IMHO it cant't work in any competition to apply different rulings amongst the participants of the same category. You can have a separate category or league where all the selected have to play by diff