Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 17:23:24 -0400
Trust me, I do SO2R rather well. But you'll have to forgive me if I find it a little odd that one can jump 15, or 22 KHz within two minutes and find only multipliers. I invite you to scan the bands s
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 17:58:50 -0400
Well given that a log analysis was done based on the totality of a log, there is no way to judge a log excerpt in isolation. How about this, why don't you post the entire 48 hour video of your effort
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 17:39:26 -0400
I'm not going to second guess what happened in the email chain in question, but having just done three business trips in 2.5 weeks including one speaking engagement before a crowd of 1,500 people and
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 17:48:55 -0400
I didn't provide an answer on the below-cited examples as it would take an entire log to review excerpts. That is like asking whether $5.50 a liter for snozzwanger juice is too high or too low....If
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 19:17:12 -0400
Frank, I looked at this with some spot checks: OE3V, LA5HE (Rag!), SP3CQP, etc. Your team did not work any of these stations; nor did K3LR; nor did DL1A; nor did CN2AA - on any band... Looking a the
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 22:10:45 -0400
Hi Randy, thanks for the info on the timelines. I know that they have become compressed over time - owing to demands of customers (i.e., us)! I am not privy to the process that you undertook. Have yo
Author: "Richard F DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 11:58:53 -0400
You do realize that UT5UGR has been DQed before - the 2007 or 2008 IARU... 73 Rich NN3W Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone Can anyone recall when a contester's reputation has imploded so spectacular
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 12:40:23 -0400
There are all sorts of grievances that one can lodge on scoring. Let's see, station in W4 works station in W6 (2400 miles). Points awarded - 0 Station in PA works station in DL (228 miles). Points aw
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 07:07:18 -0400
i think you're going to have to assess whether you have some serious unintended consequences of changing certain major contests to distance-only. Part of the allure of the CQWW and part of the succes
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 22:48:16 -0400
And as was noted, N2IC won the big enchilada in CQWW SSB in 2013.... 73 Rich NN3W Distance based scoring, inversely actually, would be much fairer to W1s in SS. What say you? Ed N1UR Ya wanna fight,
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 15:02:01 -0400
Closest thing I can liken radio contesting to is competitive fishing or fishing derbies. You are in the same pond or lake or stretch of ocean, but beyond that you pretty much get your choice of stuff
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 06:17:00 -0500
Excellent points Mike. These remotes that are being offered now are usually offered in "first world" localities with a resident ham on site, dedicated power mains, fiber optic internet connections (m
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:32:11 -0500
I believe that at some point in the past, someone did an analysis of what would happen to a past contest if the scoring metric was changed from the current scoring format (I believe it was a CQWW con
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 15:05:31 -0500
Having a contest grow doesn't make it winnable. Since sweeps is a work once in a contest event, the event favors west and south central stations that can work the hams who get on 15 and 10 only and a
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 14:28:07 -0500
This topic has been discussed ad infinitum on QRZ and eHam. As long as DARA wants to make money, they will keep Hamvention in Dayton. I've talked to a ham in Dayton who is a client and who spends a l
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 08:16:38 -0500
As long as DARA wants to make money, they will keep Hamvention in Dayton. Agreed. DARA owns the rights to the Hamvention name and they are free to do what they want with the event. Whether we attend
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 09:57:59 -0500
I think ham radio as a whole has health issues - as does America. However, if there is an exception, I'd say that contesters are often the exception. Perhaps its the Type "A" personality found in a l
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:04:35 -0500
So by this measure, the following would make you assisted. Watching the weather during the contest - because the forecast wasn't prepared by you. Looking at your list of xxxxHQ stations in the IARU t
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 11:57:02 -0500
Agree. So, how about a .cty file or a .zon file? You didn't develop them on your own. How about one of those prefill databases for Sweeps. Or an oblast file for RDXC? We really are bordering on the a
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 16:45:45 -0500
Not sure why this is seen as being so unique. There is a group of hams that regularly works two radios on transmit. I would often do this during events like WAE where one band was very runnable and a