RTTY Contesting is decades old. There is an *art* to digital contesting, especially in non error correcting modes. The entry cost as compared to cw in terms of being able to participate is of course
We'll be looking for you from VP9HQ. We even got a legitimate high power permit for the weekend! 73 Steve KL7SB/If today is Wednesday, it must be VP9 CUL in IARU HF Radiosporr from ZS9HQ. Please from
Reposting my comments from 3830 I may be in a minority here but I really enjoyed it. Overall rate wasn't great (a bit less than 30 per hour for close to 8 hours) but..a gigantic CME hit about halfway
Agreed on all of this. One thing is, the newer cw operators (and there are more than you realize, check out .040-.060 above band edge) are generated by CWops and SKCC. If we want more CW contesters g
I think the bottom line is, there was no bad intent, but the rules, which can be interpreted in various ways regarding remote should be clarified. No audio or visual stream of operations should be a
I've often been accused of being full of sh*t .. might as well prove it. :) 73 Steve KL7SB AKGuano AK NAQP Best Name award And the winner is....... ......KL7SB! 73, de Hans, KĜHB Just a Boy and hi
I'm pretty sure I won. My score was 1.2 Mol. Only 3 Qs but the additional mults based on the A index * latitude product came up huge.73Avogadro Mole KL7SB -- Original message --From: K8MR via CQ-C
We're now a few days past what is likely the last COVID affected contest. What do y'all think should or will happen with M/M Distributed. Designated as a one time COVID exception, I can see this as
For some reason, I had assumed that this was a one time add for COVID. Looking at the original announcement, this does not appear to be the case. So I would assume it is here to stay. My mind and h
<Begin pompous diatribe> Hi Jeff, Naaah, I would not make that assumption. This is all speculation, and a bit of curiosity on my end on where people's heads are, regarding this. Obviously, I didn't
I can guess the reasons for each, though I completely disagree with WPX and think the ARRL made a hash of it.WPX, simple. TPTB want out of the "did they or didn't they" DQ judgements. They have eno
Sterling, I think conceptually you are correct, but the idea of just pulling the scab off, let it bleed and expect that it will heel stronger in the end, was very dismissive of the majority of the cu
If by any chance this was TLDR, "Dawg, ya gotta give us OGs some respect, or we're gonna pop ya" 73 Schnauzer Doggy Dog Director of Homeland Security North Pole Contest Group KL7RA Sterling, I thi
Hey all,Somehow I spaced out on renewing NCJ at least a year ago. Just rectified that, but I do try to keep a radio related reading library here, so I would like to get a hand on issues I missed. D
Oh I know I can do that. I still like having print for the "library."73SBSent via the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra 5G, an AT&T 5G smartphone -- Original message --From: WI6X Jim <wi6x.73@gmail.com> Date
Hey all,ARRL DX CW was something else up here. Of our original 6 ops, 3 canceled at the last minute. Given that, I decided the three of us would do a M/2, since in this contest, we are mostly compe
For some reason, formatting got stripped when this was sent. Hopefully this is more readable. -- Hey all, ARRL DX CW was something else up here. Of our original 6 ops, 3 canceled at the last mi
At the rate the hobby is growing there, YB may become the new JA. Lots of new young contesters, and I'm guessing, contesting must be pushed a lot in their training, because from here, we work lots o