W0MU, thanks for submitting what appears to be your first ever CQWW contest submission from your home QTH in CO. Thanks for finally trying the contest as a W station to see what the contest is all ab
W0MU said. "I have yet to read a rule that states that you must copy the information at the time of qso only. The goal is to get it right during the contest period." Here's one - "Call signs logged m
I think that all of these great ideas can be trialed quite easily in the "contest within a contest" format. Risks harm to no one. Those that want to try it do - those that don't or can't - don't. A l
If it wasn't clear before the 2016 CQ WW, it certainly should be now. If you want to compete at the top 3 - 5 level high power in the major competitive zones of World, EU, NA, US, you had better star
I think the points have been made on this topic. Can we move on? If some people on this reflector would make as many Qs in contests as postings, I think contest activity would be up by 25%! Happy Hol
Today's young generation gets it "spoon fed, with great graphics, and instantly". There's an app for that you know.. In my opinion, the only way a young person is going to become interested in contes
There are 2 important areas that many feel need improving in our sport - 1) The addition of new, young talent into the radio sport community 2) A fairer way of qualifying WRTC competitors There have
"The offended party would like to know how to defend his honor" AA8TA I have an idea. How about volunteering to give your IP address. Ed N1UR _______________________________________________ CQ-Contes
Charles, As someone who has contested numerous times from 9M6, I can honestly say that I feel your pain. However, it todays "skimmer enhanced world", you should try CQing on bands that are not busy.
Apparently, no one wants to spot any more. They think that everyone is using skimmer so what's the point? I decided to make some notes this time in ARRL DX. - When did I start CQing on 80, 40, 20, 15
I wanted to clarify my earlier post and offer a correction. KE1J was indeed also running extensively from Vermont. So there were 2 of us. When I say that I wasnt spotted on DX Summit, it has NOTHING
Peter, if that's the case, then there are A LOT of people still just using DX Summit and not cluster nodes based on the timing of "packet pile-ups" vs DX Summit spots. Those pile-ups should not exist
Because they dont understand or dont want to bother with connecting up their logger to a cluster node. Could be casuals just having fun. Or just intimidated by computer connectivity. Just like all ar
I must respectfully disagree with my esteemed colleague Doug. I too looked through the original transmittal from the CQ WW Contest committee. While any one or even a couple of these circumstance coul
Sorry, its not KP4XX, its KP4KE. We all know it, so lets stop beating around the bush. In addition to know - beyond physics power excursions - I caught KP4KE spoofing my call on DX Summit and spottin
Why don't we just skip the radio part and just work each other in a chat room. That would be the fairest right? Radiosport is ABOUT communicating over the airwaves and putting what we hear in the log
To be clear, there is NO universal connection of RBN spots to DX Summit at least. There is the W3LPL robot which does so. But that robot only does that on certain filtered DXCC spots. No idea what th
There is confusion on what people mean when they say "spot". 1) I am looking at DX Summit and I don't see myself spotted. Reason, RBN is not directly tied into DX Summit. W3LPL is a robot with filter
The underlying question that is not being addressed here is: what % of assisted ops in contests are using DX Summit fed web tools vs are connected into a node? If, for instance, 50% of the assisted o
Lee, Thank you for a great overview of this needed detail. Clearly, 100 spots a minute can't flood into DX Summit since it's a visual screen interface. Yet, from my observations, it is still widely u