Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 22:30:37 -0400
People's circumstances differ. Personally, if I had it, I would probably play with it while I'm traveling for work. Other hams who are in severe HOA situations or apartments but are part of multi op
Late October certainly changes the sunlight factor. CQWW SSB certainly more popular than the RYRY test. I would say the major fear regarding CQWW SSB is the fact that its going to be exactly 28 or 29
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 13:56:09 -0500
VY1CQ was on sunday evening on 40. The pileup was a *mess.* 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 10:21:48 -0500
May I make a suggestion since you are involved in the decision making process at the League. In my opinion, its time to put an end to the ARRL contest rules where you have THREE sets of rules governi
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 19:27:56 -0500
thats the point: each contest should have their own complete set of rules. Having to look at three sets of rules is problematic. In fact, I would be willing to guess that some contesters are not even
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:07:06 -0500
CQWPX is a very different animal than other contests. When 1 out every 3 QSOs is a multiplier, the incentive to go packet hunting is very much diminished. This is a 100% run fest - the multipliers wi
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 21:05:08 -0500
I'll agree with Doug that CQWW is a great contest. Let's remember that not everyone is "in it to win it". Instead, the majority get on to see the thrill of packed bands, the sound of hearing your fir
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 14:48:39 -0500
The only other way you could score it without disrupting the event would be distance based. If you were to adopt a 0 point for same zone and same country, 1 point for different zone but same country,
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 15:26:33 -0500
The number of hams who have a directional receive array in ARRL 160 is quite small compared to the number of stations who get on for ARRL 160. Maybe 1 in 20. 73 Rich NN3W ____________________________
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 10:42:16 -0500
Claudio: thank you for the update to the WRTC scoring and for keeping everything tracked and for making corrections as needed. At this point, we are almost 18 months away (which is rather soon) from
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 16:32:44 -0500
Indeed mistakes are made. And we'll wait for the final scores to be posted, but all the contests that matter for qualification are now done, and it's now just a matter of waiting for the final scorin
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 18:30:25 -0500
I don't really play in the Sprint (I do plenty of its cousin NAQP sooo), but I'm not sure why this change is needed. If a contest tends to favor one coast over another, so what? Two of the two of the
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:06:44 -0500
This is one of the reasons why I think its incredibly short-sighted to be a contester and to not accept QSL card requests from average hams. You are asking, no, begging people to work you for QSO cre
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 23:01:54 -0400
I can recall one instance where there was a major flap over licence privileges and being "out of band". Several years back there was a ham who was operating from one of the Caribbean possessions as a
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 13:22:32 -0400
Im not seeing what the concern is with respect to a multi-multi. Lets be honest, many of the new kids who we've managed to get into the hobby are not putting up huge towers at their home QTHs and the
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 09:49:53 -0400
They've had their own callsigns, but was their license class commensurate with the frequencies on which they were operating? 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest ma
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 13:16:35 -0400
Ya know, I was leaning to thinking about the assisted issue, but Tor firmly planted me back into the "nay" column. The last thing we need in a semi-sane contest like NAQP are packet pileups - more th
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 17:54:52 -0400
Has anyone ever done a Dayton forum or online forum on contest log checking? In briefly chatting with KL9A regarding the number of logs that get submitted (over 1,000 in some NAQP events), it dawned
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 17:55:52 -0400
In the final year that N3HBX was in operation, I changed over to dual keyboards and N1MM. Seemed pretty easy to get going for me. 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Conte
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 08:25:35 -0400
I guess the logical follow-up is what's next: I vote for voice "skimmer"... 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists