EI5DI wrote: Is the IARU robot really so dumb that it cannot recognise non-W/VE entries (from the callsign) and automatically assign a "DX" location, regardless of missing or incorrect location tags?
Luc, PW7T wrote: I would hate even more be the first one by an injustice. Jim, N6TJ wrote: Last week, I was fortunate to have dinner in Washington, D.C. with my friend of many years, and contests, Sc
KR2Q wrote: No offense intended to ARRL, just a data point for comparison. I brought first 8? diskette to ARRL HQ in 1988, many 5 ½? ones were sent later until emails were accepted. My stats include
KR2Q wrote: The Robot always uses ONLY the most recent log, so when the entrant does that, their "actual" (most of their QSOs) log is "lost." I got a feeling that USA is a land of stupid robots and t
KR2Q wrote: Your category will (be) parsed from the header, irrespective of the submitted QSOs. Savvy user S56A parsed many logs long before CQ begun receiving electronic ones. I assumed that the ver
Thanks for NA VE support, Judge K4BAI! CQ WW is historically not the best example of modern log checking, Bob W5OV. I actually tried to help them by sending separate checklog as I know that makes lif
OH1NOA wrote: Especially on CW my contest career's biggest pileups have been in IOTA contest I operate VHF rarely because of poor ops. Field Day comes next in quality. IOTA is similar summer social e
N4ZR of NASA Curiousity fame wrote: If you don't want to be spotted by Skimmers, don't send CQ or TEST or "UP x", because these are three triggers that will tell Skimmer that you're running. If I rec
NG3K wrote: Operators who omit the "tweak" step cause the problem for the CQer and an automatic random offset would be step toward eliminating such skimmer pileups. I do a lot of "tweaking" toward ze
Who believes that "blind" operators slowly turning VFO knob hoping for jackpot have more fun in 21st century? I like the magic of ionosphere since 1962. LP MMM S56A __________________________________
N6TJ wrote: If we're not employing the latest technology, we're dinosaurs. People do little to promote what made DXing and contesting great in the first place: OPERATOR SKILLS. Jim described learning
We pretend that hamradio contesting is a sport. Major problem there seems to be illegal drugs but even CT1BOH fails to mention them in a long list. CQ WW is 48 hours event and I managed 45 alive in R
New Director Randy, K5ZD wrote: It only asks a station that is Running to correctly say the callsign that they put into their log. I am not a native English speaker and I feel I need K1VR help! Does
ES5TV wrote: I can come back to "who was the YL station (meaning female), you are 59 15" and just end the QSO with Thank You or 88. According to the private interpretation of my doubts by KU5B confir
I am glad to read about CQ WW CC using SDR for advanced log checking! Makes me better understand 2011 top score ambiguites. I only wish Jose met me in Lisbon for a lunch J LP MMM S56A _______________
N6TR wrote: Inside modern radios - signals are likely being converted to a bunch of numbers and back into something the human can hear. I am not sure EI5DI agrees with unholly conversion of electrons
Add Kosovo as DXCC special area - not for ARRL L Play safe and wait for UN and ITU burocrats. Ashton, Biden and Clinton were there recently. GL TMW USA & LP MMM S56A, N1YU ___________________________
I am delighted to learn that I was operating "normal" according to EI5DI in this CQ WW 160 m CW weekend from Kosovo, Z6! I went to very isolated place by Batlava lake with a single WiFi secured acces
E2E is no problem at all as two dashes are strongly against string of dots high probability. One can eliminate all EISH5 dot combinations losing about 14 callsigns from master.dta not including recen
W5OV writes: During a contest, the RBN continually and repeatedly, ad infinitum, makes the same errors over and over and over which fills the bandmaps with useless stuff. I guess Bob argument is bias