Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:08:01 -0800 (PST)
Ok...let me try this again. (sorry if you saw part of this already). Realtime scoring is a reality (though it is being tweaked)! Simply use "DXDash Logger" during the NCCC practice event and watch yo
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:17:44 -0800 (PST)
I agree. As long as we tell others what we're doing so that scores mean something. Here's what I mean... We human beings try to categorize everything. We look for order where it doesn't exist, or ex
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 07:52:19 -0800 (PST)
I ran my own little "Contest Within A Contest" during the Stew Perry Top Band Challenge (just ended). I logged by using a new real-time scoring system. Wanna see what a first-timer with 100 watts to
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:50:05 -0800 (PST)
That is the beauty of realtime scoreboarding. You can still participate in a contest as you traditionally have if you want to. You can also participate in a "Contest Within A Contest" (CWAC)for that
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 03:14:35 -0800 (PST)
Great question for an off-topic reply. :) I think we do that by realizing that "recognician" and "normalization" are two different things. We probably use these concepts interchangably, too often. I
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:05:49 -0800 (PST)
I would suggest that one attempts to Elmer the other station into compliance first, by bringing it to their attention at the time of the observation if possible. Their actions/reply and your persona
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 04:07:06 -0800 (PST)
Is there a generally accepted way to calculate operating time during a contest? I was thinking of linking it to keyboard activity, but wanted to ask before going off in that direction if some other w
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:25:23 -0800 (PST)
Thanks to Bob, Charles, John, Dick, Doug and Dave for their insights. This seems to be another one of those "squishy" factors to contests that is begging for a more universal definition or applicatio
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:35:27 -0800 (PST)
Ok...rather than offering another definition for Operating Time and Listening Time, I'll offer a new concept: Logging Time. If you press a key, then you are either logging or attempting to determine
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 03:41:53 -0800 (PST)
I think that you are correct (from what I understand of HF rules anyway), Dick. How strange this is. One can engage in an activity that clearly benefits ones score as noted above but doesn't count t
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 20:19:13 -0800 (PST)
-- "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com> wrote: Oh cool. So I spend a half hour not TXing...but SWLing and noting the frequency and callsign of future QSO's. Ken, you came up with this "poten
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 20:22:38 -0800 (PST)
Understanding often requires poking at the issue from several angles. The rules on such things are too entrenched to even think about re-writing them. The only option would be a new contest. (hmmmmm.
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:14:30 -0800 (PST)
-- "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com> wrote: Fascinating, Ken. Thanks for that additional tidbit, too. Oh the stuff you learn if you ask. :) Regards, Ev ___________________________________
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 04:19:18 -0800 (PST)
As someone who is trying for the first time to understand Cabrillo (not simply use it as it was deployed within someone elses program), I have been confused myself, but mostly by the way that robots
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 04:45:14 -0800 (PST)
Hi Joe, You raise an interesting question that launches a couple of thoughts. The way I have come to understand it, Cabrillo is simply a presentation method that sponsors are encouraged to use to mak
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:49:49 -0800 (PST)
for I have come to agree. I have searched for what it would take to "level the playing field" for a long time. Each scenario simply unlevelled it in different ways. The secret to "levelling" the play
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:54:34 -0800 (PST)
Bravo, Doug! PropNET says that 10-meters has been open quite nicely over the past 24 hours: http://propnet.findu.com/catch.cgi?band=hy&last=24&geo=http://w2ev.rochesterny.org/PropNET/images/findUmaps
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 05:44:23 -0800 (PST)
anything It is no more or less enforcable than any other catagorization in place now. What if the "line" between LP and HP is 100 watts? I've seen reviews that say a transceiver puts out 104 watts,
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 03:58:43 -0800 (PST)
applies only to the "robot" that Tree knows about. There is nothing keeping anyone else from writing their own that treats it differently. There is a Cabrillo spec. There is no Cabrillo Robot Spec, f
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:48:53 -0800 (PST)
Dear Jim (and the group), The DXDash Logger system (in operation for VHF contests [mostly Sprints]) since last falltime uses the Internet today, but has developed a protocol that would make using the