Has nothing to do with how active the cq-contest reflector is. It has everything to do with how addicted to packet users have gotten. We could CQ until we were blue in the face and get 1 QSO a minute
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:22:07 -0500
This seems pretty definitive to me: *From the ARRL Contest Update today:* _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 20:17:29 -0500
Why doesn't it? There is no prohibition against it. ARRL has started that you can spot yourself, have friends spot you, put out posts on Facebook and Twitter, and have a banner tower aircraft or the
Why would you assume that an assisted station would not spot itself? Makes zero sense. Given how packet addicted many hams have become, stations stand to gain significantly from self spotting. 73 Ric
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 09:07:49 -0500
Maybe you should take the issue up with the ARRL CAC. After all, it was the CAC that created this monster..... 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 11:50:48 -0500
One problem with spot all S&P QSOs is that often N1MM doesn't put you into run mode immediately. So you suddenly have a bunch of packet spots for stations on your run frequency. Not an ideal situatio
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 12:39:03 -0500
Exactly. This has happened several times since I often use an external MFJ 434. It also happens (this is a corner case) when you work a friend and he says I'm going to another band - take this one. 7
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 12:41:28 -0500
Stations that didn't have a signal trace for 5 minutes? Bwahahhhahaha. I had stations trying to take my QRG after 10 seconds. 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest m
Well how far up or back do we want to take this. How about N1MM or Wintest that prefill 25 when you work a JA in the exchange field. Or how about a prefill in NAQP that fills in Tom MD when you work
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2023 12:55:36 -0400
I would coach it in these terms: Check Partial, Super Check Partial, and Call History provide you a "guess" as to what the correct data is. Its not a definitive answer and SCP can and sometimes is wr
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2023 17:50:23 -0400
Certainly likely to be more correct than SCP and is a validator of information that you get from not-on-the-air sources. _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Con
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 14:12:59 -0400
I mean we're only competing with ourselves within the shell of the IARU contest so I don't see what the big deal is. We're scored differently, we're categorized differently, etc. 73 Rich NN3W _______
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 14:53:50 -0400
Kind of like how using a callsign block that had not been activated in nearly 30 years was re-opened up just for WRTC? Nobody complained an ounce then - in fact it was lauded. That certainly detracte
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 20:09:01 -0400
We're not competing with IARU stations. We're competing with WRTC stations. Our point scoring is different; our multipliers are different; our entry class is different. Seriously, stop whining. 73 Ri
I think youre underestimating the ability of people to multitask. Contesting activities are not binary. You can call CQ and look at a monitor at the same time.. 73 Rich NN3W _________________________
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Im sure you will see stuff come out over time at club meetings, contest forums and the like. Most everyone was too damned tired to do I much of anything other than disassemble their stations, pack up
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2023 07:58:07 -0400
The slight difference I would say regarding WRTC is that operators tend to trend a bit younger than average hams. 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:52:58 -0400
Yet hundreds of millions of people are doing it every day. And the case levels are basically next to nothing. I've flown 9000 miles in the past 21 days including 8 different flights, spoke at two con