Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 05:57:58 -0700 (PDT)
The term "chaos" - as I attempted to use it in the original e-mail - is connected to observed contest operation by human beings rather than contest rules. By being willing to entertain such thought.
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 16:25:01 -0700 (PDT)
Interestingly, Cabrillo is extensible and can handle this nicely, right now. fwiw, Ev, W2EV __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best s
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 16:37:56 -0700 (PDT)
There may be an opportunity to give the HF contesting community a taste of the dream even today. What would folks think of a *simple* (from a rules perspective) 2-hour, one-band sprint to demonstrate
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 16:57:27 -0700 (PDT)
Yes! Exactly, Ken. Of course, it's not about winning some obscure combination of parameters (though that can certainly be mined). Having such data allows us to gain a deeper understanding of our own
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 19:25:29 -0700 (PDT)
Not at all. This is a reprint of the statement that started this thread... "What if we are attempting to make sense out of chaos by categorizing things that need not be categorized? (gasp!) What if w
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 15:48:43 -0700 (PDT)
I'll try framing things another way... What if categories (as they are established and defined by the contest sponsor in today's world) were *replaced* by requiring stations to reveal the conditions
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:26:10 -0700 (PDT)
-- "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com> wrote: Any other conclusion would be naive, of course. The difference is that greater public scrutiny can be had by revealing greater amounts of infor
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 21:15:05 -0700 (PDT)
You are mistaken, I'm afraid. I've been licensed and contesting since 1976. I even lead my local club to several national championships in the middle 1980's (when I still had enough hair to be classi
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 05:28:41 -0700 (PDT)
Have you been reading the e-mails that I've been sending? :) In fact, the exact opposite occurs. It allows people to climb the hills that *they* are interested in climbing...and comparing their effor
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:27:08 -0700 (PDT)
This was my first Stew Perry (and first 160 meter contest). I was a search-and-pounce operator. My station consisted of 100 watts to an inverted Vee at 40-feet. How?d I do? I scored 266/480 (all cate
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:34:51 -0700 (PDT)
At first, I was thinking that there is no need for centralized categorization. I was thinking that, by revealing the conditions under which a contest was operated, the operator could create "their ow
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:45:30 -0700 (PDT)
Here's a perspective of someone who entered their first CW contest within the past year. If "the collective you" really mean what you say ("we need to encourage new participation") then here's a way
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:41:22 -0700 (PDT)
I've been contest active since the middle 1970's. You may find me once there...maybe. :) Allow me to be one of the first to offer well wishes to the ARRL's newest Contest Branch manager...someone wh
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:34:39 -0700 (PDT)
I used to employ strategies that worked extremely well in both honing skills for SSB contesting in those that may have never tried it before *and* preparing a club's membership for the mayhem that t
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:50:48 -0700 (PDT)
-- From: Richard DiDonna NN3W [mailto:nn3w@cox.net] I don't recall that appearing on the "3830 reflector" or in QST was a prerequisite to applying for the job. I *do* notice that he's the person behi
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:19:26 -0700 (PDT)
Is there software that natively supports the Tesla Cup for logging and scoring? http://www.teslaradio.org/rules.htm Also... Would the person(s) who sponsor this event mind contacting me off-list? I'v
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:19:35 -0700 (PDT)
We seem to forget that -- like any other sport -- there are bumps in the roadway that have to be dealt with. It is the randomness of the event. Using the NASCAR analogy...when a rookie makes a mista
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:45:26 -0700 (PDT)
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