Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 07:56:05 -0500
For those of you who have not seen Dr. DX, here is a screen shot from a presentation done at Dayton in 2005. http://www.kkn.net/dayton2005/Who%20needs%20sunspots.pdf 73 Rich NN3W They didn't have muc
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:11:52 -0500
Would be good enough! Plenty of records broken. 73 Rich NN3W 73 John AF5CC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.co
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 19:31:19 -0500
I'm mixed on this issue. Not iding is not the best form, but the fact of the matter is that (especially on SSB), 3 QSOs can be made in 25 seconds. Are folks that impatient that they cannot wait 30 se
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:21:44 -0500
Because 3 QSOs in a very high rate environment is no less ideal than 3 QSOs in a crap rate environment where the operator is struggling with each and every QSO. Of course, even if you heard the calls
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:02:08 -0500
You're reading too much into the rule. The regulation says at the end of a communication or every ten minutes. The FCC in a past NPRM shot down the notion that you would have to identify after each a
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:56:15 -0500
Thats not what the FCC said in its callsign identification NPRM rejection. Nor is the term communication explicitly defined. 73 Rich NN3W Identifying after every contact is required under the rules i
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:27:35 -0400
I've got a couple suggestions. For any score that is within 50% of the top score in a major category, post the accuracy percentage. Don't do it publicly for scores that are below that percentage. Or
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 09:38:13 -0400
Unfair would be the fact that I can work a station 2300 miles away in California and I don't receive a single point for that QSO. You, on the other hand, can work about a dozen different countries wi
Author: Richard DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:21:56 -0500 (CDT)
The problem is that the ARRL/RAC run events like sweepstakes on a section basis. As it stands now, you're in the MAR province. If you want to be viewed as differently, you're going to have to convinc
Author: Richard DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:21:12 -0500 (CDT)
Why would we? They are separate ARRL sections. Is Prince Edward Island considered a separate RAC/ARRL section from New Brunswick? 73 Rich NN3W Lets lump together Maine , NH , VT , MASS , Conn and cal
Author: Richard DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:47:59 -0600 (CST)
Perhaps we should get some clarification from the organizers on this one. That is, is it the intent of the WRTC2018 committee to allow the teams to use assistance (i.e., Skimmer and recognized spotti
Author: Richard DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 14:59:03 -0600 (CST)
Kelly, you really need to look at some recent scores where you have true head-to-head competition involving major operators to see the results. Claimed scores for CQWW CW this year put K5ZD's assiste
Author: Richard DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 13:32:14 -0600 (CST)
Yah, the USA record for QSOs in RDXC is under 2000 - and that is from a station in New England. I think folks need a little perspective on the level of activity in this event (i.e., the last time I d
Author: Richard DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:05:06 -0600 (CST)
WAE is not a world-wide contest and is single mode. But it earns 1,000 points. Not seeing a consistent pattern here. 73 Rich NN3W Dave, In comparison of ARRL vs RDXC as contests suitable for selectio
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:29:13 -0500
There you go. The 2014 year where the claimed score was above 2000 QSOs. But, I thought you said that "3000 QSO in 24 hours in RDXC is not uncommon from almost anywhere." I see no evidence of that be
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 07:22:13 -0500
OK,fine. 2011 (ssb): NN3W - 11,828,236 K1DG - 9,459,060 Note that K1DG is closer to Europe than I was... 73 Rich NN3W On 12/11/2014 11:57 PM, Milt -- N5IA wrote: HMMMMMMM. I wonder where K4XS is loca
Author: Richard DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:51:48 -0600 (CST)
Well, if we want to go contest by contest, we'd note that in the last NAQP CW for which final scores are available, there were no logs received from South Dakota; or North Dakota. A total of 152 QSOs
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:14:42 -0400
Anyone with free time available to meet up potentially on this coming Wednesday (April 29)? I am speaking at a conference in San Juan on Thursday morning and should have free time the previous night
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 10:27:52 -0400
I'm not going to make any presumptions, but I noted many of the same issues that Ken saw. Some very LARGE VFO swings in a matter of one or two minutes - and only hitting multipliers on the other radi
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 14:56:40 -0400
To give you an example: every time a band change was done or every time a move was made, it resulted in a new mult. Amazing luck? Or???? Freq Time Mult? Movement 3521 0950 NO 0 3521 0951 NO 0 3521 09