My Heil headset is also really painful after a few hours. Now I usually use either Sony headphones (without mic) or a Yamaha CM-500 headset. Both are much more comfortable. TorN4OGW On Tuesday, March
What acceptance by sponsors? FT8 (or FT4) are not allowed in the ARRL or CQ RTTY contest single op categories. Tor N4OGW In the last decade, I was an active digital contester and still hold a CQWW R
It depends on your definition of "major": CW decoders are prohibited in CQWW contests for single ops; ARRL contests only forbid "multichannel decoders", so single-frequency decoders are OK there even
A lot of the commenters have only been thinking about 6m in VHF contests. Giving points for different modes doesn't make sense on the higher bands. There most contacts are not random but are arranged
That is not necessarily true: Imagine if a 100 watt PEI station operated Sweepstakes only on 21/28 MHz. There would be little chance of working them from New England or the mid-Atlantic because of th
Yes, those badly using interlocks were sometimes very noticeable in the ARRL CW. I was not able to operate very much over the weekend so when I was running stations there were often many calling me.
WSJTX defaults to sending 73's. That (and not some weird idea of "punishment" that it what it does by default; so if anything, sending 73 is still the official standard. There is also no obvious se
The obvious solution is to delay it until the contest is over :) Then there could be absolutely no influence on the results. Actually, there ARE radio contests that allow soliciting (but not confirmi
Yes, it would be a huge effort to re-invent the log checking. And the effect is significant. For example, according to https://www.cqww.com/publiclcr/, the average score deduction for 2018 CQWW was 1
Denis, I think your scoring scheme has a critical flaw: the points for each qso depend on basically arbitrary zone boundaries, and the zone boundaries in some cases divide up countries with lots of
It's not in the same category as please copy (and yes, I have heard that on cw too : )), but at least for me having TEST first is better. When tuning the band you often come across a "CQ", "TU", or "
Jeff, You have it backwards- with 2BSIQ there is much more strategy involved. You have to decide on TWO bands to run! And you also have to decide beween CQ/S&P SO2R and 2BSIQ. I did some 2BSIQ in the
While tuning 40 on Saturday evening I heard an exchange ending "# NT". Then the other station sent "TU". Then nothing happened for a few seconds...for some reason the other station didn't send CQ rig
If you have access to plots but not the raw data, try using Data Thief (www.datathief.org). Tor N4OGW On Sunday, November 15, 2020, 7:04:20 AM CST, Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: That'
As someone who develops logging/SDR software for unassisted use, this statement is false and a bad excuse for the decision to eliminate single op. It is very easy to distinguish: if the software ca
You guys obviously haven't operated much away from the east coast. Mults are not the big deal in WPX. You are forgetting a key part of WPX scoring: there is a huge difference in qso point values, wit
Sunday morning during CQWW CW at 1335z some kind of wideband signal landed on top of me. It had a pulsating sound and covered 21.040-21.060....on the panadapter it looked like a white cloud (I have a
Western stations are usually going to dominate in wintertime North American domestic contests because of the skip zone on the high bands ("high band" often includes 40m in the winter). But eastern or
The weak signal performance of FT-8 is in a large part due to its time synchronization, which is part of the specification of FT-8, not a "limitation" of wsjtx. With an asychronous digital mode the d
Yes, there was a big 2m Es opening during FD. I was at W5YD (EM53 West Point, MS), and we worked stations in MN and VE4 on 2m. All we had was about 50w and a 5 element yagi up about 20 feet- still s9