Introduce locators exchange and scoring on distance with low band weights! However, heavy hamradio land investements in P4 and EA8 would be devalued. 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU _________________________
Legacy curse of CQ WW contest is 2 points for inter-NA QSO which supossedly stimulates Carribean DX-peds. Most of people moved further South to 3 points islands. Increased EU participation makes plai
KY1V wrote: The bottom line is that V47NT was the best operator and EF8M gets the plaque. I don't see fairness in that. EF8M repeated great 2008 DQ-ed score but this time G3SXW was behind him! I don'
KY1V wrote: Think how much fun it would be next year if instead of logging PJ2T 6Y1V and V47NT, you instead log PJ2T, PJ2V and PJ2NT. Dave, your view seems to be limited to USA & Carribean! Last CQ W
N6TJ wrote: Perhaps all should aspire to what N6AA and N6ZZ (sk) accomplished. Pick-up bags and operate CQ WW from all 40 Zones. I opted for poor man WAZ version and operated from all continents! 100
Yuri, nice to see your idea with Tesla cup refreshed. I guess low band weights would increase participation just like WAE. Beware that TC dates clash with CQ WW RTTY contest which has increaed partic
Doug, W9WI made some comments about casual participants not willing to check their standard locator. Wally, LZ2CJ propossed simpler idea to recalculate CQ WW scores using distances from zone centers.
Larry, thanks for propagation phenomena explanation. I was convinced 10 m band was dead and sent 3830 report. I worked my first LU/PY after that with 24 more QSO. I like ionosphere ever since 1962. S
W4AU & S56A DISCLAIMER: This report relies on my somewhat faulty memory and some of the facts my be erroneous, but it's basically true, I think.... After selling kkn.net IP kernels to CISCO, Trey got
Last Nov I decided to go SOAB HP CW after few enjoyable QRP efforts chasing various records. I scored over 2K QSO for the first time BUT it was such a boring event working EU pile-ups as DX bands clo
W4ZV wrote: Even Mario didn't enter his preferred category. With the benefit of hindsight, I am sorry I didn't! I felt I haven't had enough technology accumulated with DX Cluster and CW Skimmer for u
K1DG wrote: It is both disappointing and surprising that there were no U.S entries. I got hint from USA about Legacy category, similar to Extreme. The second part of the scoring will be determined by
Frank, ZL2BR wrote: Only 5 of these 33 contests have a separate SO-Assisted category: SCC RTTY This was not the case in 1996 when I established SCC RTTY rules consulting international community via i
K5ZD wrote yet another K3 "made in USA" hype: No pops or beeps or phantom signals. There are laws of physics governing electrical signals mixing and Collins interpreted them in 1970's on noisy HF wit
N4ZR wrote: The volume of spots coming in from 6-band Skimmer Servers was overwhelming - as an example, N4ZR's QS1R/Skimmer Server combination posted almost 47,000 spots, and there were ~10 different
EI5DI wrote: No wind-powered engines for sailboat racers. America Cup is the top boat race. Last two years it was won by fast HB catamaran. Until Larry Ellison of Oracle fame got his USA patriotism h
G3SXW wrote: This 1-to-1 mail bounced. Your ISP doesn't accept mail from the biggest ISP in UK! I thought KY1V problem was exclusively mine with a small S5 provider :-) Roger documented nice increase
Even PY1NB of RBN fame is making DXC QRM on CW Skimmer success theme Internet login for DX Cluster might reduce anonymous spots and K1TTT work but it will still leave about 5% humanely wrong ones and
N6TJ wrote: Our hobby is truly much less than it once was because of packet. G3SXW data on contest participation even in the lean years of sunspots does NOT support your thesys. There is significant
VE3DZ wrote: N1MM Logger does not accept "0.5" or ".5" as a number. It accepts 1/2! Yuri, you owe me a beer in Moscow as I had to change S56A to N1YU test setting in N1MM Logger. Nice to work you & T