Just run N1MM Logger, connected to N4ZR Skimmer for the first time with a great delight! There are plenty of USA DXC spots thanks to M/M giants but not enough from EU or JA. I just got 1 kW from my G
KY1V: Imagine...you could operate 6Y1V from the comfort of your living room. I vividly remember late Bill, W4AN QSO from his GA office using remote station in the mountains! The highest temptation wh
HA1AG: I'm afraid w4pa was right: if it goes on like this cw contesting won't be a measure of individual performance anymore. 48 hours SO2R split CW single tone listening is the measure of individual
KY1V: If we wish to discuss elimination of cheating, let's talk about eliminating the cheaters, not every potential methods of cheating. Encouraging steps were made at last WRTC, open logs, IARU adju
EI5DI: And occasionally think of how you have debased amateur radio - then put aside those idle thoughts and relax while the log fills up all by itself :-) The comm world has moved from radio to blac
Maybe we should be talking about an entirely new class structure for single-ops -- something like "Advanced" and "Traditional". Or maybe three levels - "Traditional", "Advanced" and "Unlimited". Cons
There seems to be a lot of space for improvement of Skimmer decoding for single contest callers. My 1990's research on KCDXC pile-up 3 kHz audio channel with 64 streams brought 80% score against my 6
K1AR wrote: Using M6T is legal and allowed by the rules. Not sending a report is illegal and specifically against the rules. As I just exchanged few emails with K1AR about stupid WPX robot which canc
ARRL 2% DQ criteria is too harsh as average hams error rate is around 3%! Especially at our demographics :-) I vividly remember 5B4AGD 2000 operation with WPX legend Rasa, YU1RL under Ranko, then YT6
K1TTT: If I were doing wpx cw under my call I would send an rst of TTT, now that would be fun! Make it shorter - ETT! I used AR as a lot of time is wasted in letter spaces :-) 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU
I can live with two PC COM ports for separate CAT, PTT and KEY radio controls as MMTTY supports EXTFSK on LPT. It might be legacy curse but I feel better without USB software and RFI bugs! Beware tha
High quality EU sunspots on sale with 60% discount for ARRL members which voted overwhelmingly for preservation of Morse code as HF entry requirement. Dollars accepted. 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU ______
N6TR wrote: Technically - the skimmer should still get almost the same 31 it got before - maybe losing a few calls that were too close to each other in frequency. I had some 80% DSP CW pile-up decodi
There are two physical limitations with Morse code pile-ups: close spaced signals and dot timing constraint. 40 wpm dot lasts only 30 msec and several samples are required for reliable decoding. 3 kH
K5ZD wrote: we want to keep humans in the call finding business rather than having skimmer do it. We have that but some old fashioned contesters didn't like humans sharing these findings over DXC. Wi
KY1V of Jamaica fame nicely sumarized computers contribution to hamradio contesting. There is only one awesome step left PC robot automatically starting logical CW transmission (not only CQ loop). Iv
ES5TV: they participate in non-assisted class because that is were you get real credit for what you have done in terms of developing your skills and building your stations. The milestones in building
KR2Q: The single-op is "exploring" (unless passing) while the SOA is taking directed actions. Single op. with Skimmer is doing intelligent band search using DSP technology while OF are slowly turning
K1TTT wrote: The big worry seems to be that the use of the skimmer would upset the apple cart so badly that perennial winners would get beaten. I guess N5TJ @ VE3EJ score convinced assisted doubters
K5GO wrote: It would be interesting to see if the original author of the rules honestly thought a single operator should be able to work from a list of stations he had nothing to do with finding as l