Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 09:29:18 -0400
Agreed. What is a Texas and west coast contest will become an even greater Texas and west coast contest. 73 Rich NN3W On 3/14/2018 9:04 AM, RT Clay wrote: I haven't received my NCJ yet, but increasin
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:36:45 -0400
I agree. Not every contest has to be a callsign copying competition. Not every contest has to be a massive multiplier move fest. Not every contest has to have the 10-Q meter pegged at 240 for the
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:34:29 -0400
We had this discussion on Sweeps last November, so I will recall my suggested tweak on Sweeps. And I'll reiterate that I believe the malaise is really confined to CW Sweeps. And for what its worth,
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:41:32 -0400
Interesting stuff Tor. Can we get a plot of the SSB top scores. Obviously a year to year analysis is difficult to do - solar cycles contribute to QSO count increases and decreases, geomag storms on
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 10:45:16 -0400
Times change. I remember when KH7, KH3, KH4, and KH9 were pretty damned easy to work (at least from this former W6s perspective). Navy, USCG, and USAF personnel were all over those islands and often
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 11:38:56 -0400
Wasnt it announced that it is being done in Italy in 2022? 73 Rich NN3W We all hope some group will step forward to organize the next WRTC. It is a great exhibition of the sport of contesting. Randy
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 00:31:30 -0400
I have no idea how you;re going to quantify what constitutes a "super/mega" station or how that is somewhat necessarily a guarantee that a person would or would not be a more likely person to qualify
Art mentioned that he was fresh meat which in ARRL 160 can mean a big pile. Sending your call twice or timing your call until after the initial bedlam is one legitimate pileup technique. Why get bent
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2018 15:34:51 -0500
I agree, it seems strange. The first bit of cycle peak for cycle 24 was in the fall of 2011. This would place a minimum nearly 10 years after the prior max. 73 Rich NN3W Count me as a skeptic of th
I wasnt active until the late 1980s in the world of contesting but concur with what KQ2M has said. 3830 was definitely the place to be after a contest and, yes, a lot of side bars took place on 3827
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:20:49 -0400
Or deal with hams who give you CQ zone exchanges. I got a lot of zone 5s and a few Zone 14s. 73 Rich NN3W Contesting has come a long way, but the fact remains we are still supposed to log what we he
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 21:35:46 -0400
Well, for one I know of at least two assaults that took place near the CP - including one involving a member of the contesting community who got cold-cocked because he refused a request for a cigaret
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:47:20 -0400
The Marriott is a viable option. I've stayed there on business. 73 Rich NN3W 73 Ed N1UR --Original Message-- From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Allan W Schlauga
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:51:25 -0400
From a hotel perspective, there are two options in Dayton - the Crowne and the Marriott. As I've noted in another post, I've stayed at the Marriott on client business. Its not downtown walkable but
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 17:08:21 -0500
Its like AARP offering a senior discount. 73 Rich 73, de Hans, K0HB Just a boy and his radio . because if we offered an actual seniors discount, very few would be paying regular rate. Ria N2RJ ______
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 14:36:57 -0500
You're asking about ARRL section issues. ARRL has their reason for certain sections. Kinda like Maryland-DC which incorporates an independent state and a Federal district. 73 Rich NN3W Why PEI vs.
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 14:07:44 -0500
There are always challenging sections in Sweepstakes. IIRC, a couple years back in SS CW, I missed Santa Barbara and Nebraska. TIme to delete those sections? 73 Rich NN3W On 1/5/2020 12:04 PM, Jim B
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 09:22:56 -0500
As a general rule, I always work dupes. I have one and only one exception: if I have a significant pile (i.e., 3 callers+) in Sweepstakes, I will call out dupe if I am pretty certain I've worked so
Author: Richard F DDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 16:49:16 -0500
-- I don't think I could be any more categorically opposed to the notion of contesting on the WARC bands. Contesters often get a black eye for using the bands - especially on weekends. The WARC bands