It is often said that using packet does not help much and Assisted results are usually lower than unassisted. Well, just to get some numbers I did a little analysis. I had 2800 QSOs and 950 mults in
Well, I guess you believe as well as I do that those scores are really apples and oranges as Barry pointed out. If we put those top class SO guys with their setups into assisted classes the scores wo
It might seem to you so but actually the rate is slow in WPX, rarely over 110-120 per hour. That allows you to use 2nd radio very efficiently almost not losing anything on the 1st radio. I estimate t
Very nice description, Jose! Exactly Alternate CQs is one good example of SO3R. Effectively I have been doing SO3R when CQing on 40m and listening my frequency and up. At the same time S&P on 80 or 2
Friends, Me and other organizers invite you to participate in ES OPEN HF CHAMPIONSHIP 2004 on April 17th from 5:00 UTC to 9:00 UTC. Contest is held on 40 and 80 meters in SSB and CW simultaneously. I
As Aeron has been acknowledged in this list as the top contesting chair I decided to get into this league as well and solve all the chair related problems for ever. Local representative only has smal
Having participated twice now in EUHFC and finished in top 3 twice this has become one of my favourite contests. This year I wanted to go for plaque. Unfortunately I am a TR User also and although th
A good question. I have done only a few Single Band entries but it seems natural that doing 80 or 160m Single Band you would roam around on high bands during day to arrange low band sceds. I have nev
So the outcome of this is quite funny situation where e.g. it would be allowed to make one SB entry from a M/M contest station and then 5 stations operate under the same call on the other bands but s
My view on this: The biggest problem is always with guys who start to call CQ without any QRL or SSB equivalent. They scroll the band, find an empty spot and there they go after 3 seconds! This is ve
I absolutely agree with Barry that plain CQ is rude and destructive. 1. Any CQ is longer than QRL or ?. It disturbes my operating much more and believe me, in EU there are tens of stations looking fo
Yes, bandpass filters are essential. Especially on the recieving end on 15m. Stub on output would help also. I am using W3NQN filters on both radios in SO2R and I can listen to 15m without any interf
Valeri, you will not regret that purchase! We did exactly the same for ES9C/ES6Q M/M station. Those filters are incredibly efficient and the attenuation graphs given by WX0B on his website are absolu
I am getting my ARRL CW 80m SO log ready for submittion and it reminded me I wanted to comment on a funny experience. It was 0544 UTC the second day and getting very slow. Had made 180 of my 200 QSOs
I decided to analyse spots after my SO 80m effort to get some insights about their effect on my rate and propagation conditions. Well, there were only 4 for my dissapointment while only one from US -
Thanks for all the positive direct replies. Some people advised me to look at uniques as well - stations that sumbitted only one spot. It proved to be very interesting, well here is the outcome: Out
Yes, If the probability of a certain spot being submitted from Summit (with @ sign) is 44% then the probability of 28 randomly selected independent spots all being with @ sign is 0.44 in the power of
I pushed Send too fast in previous mail, the other probability is: If the probability of a certain spot having one decimal point in a frequency is 16% then the probability of having only 1 or 0 of th
I would like to remind to all contesters about our little ES contest this Saturday. We hope for quite active foreign participation this year and definitely better propagation than last year. You are
You're right Igor. For some DX stations it would be nice to participate just for fun I hope. 73 tonno es5tv -- Original Message -- From: "Igor Sokolov" <ua9cdc@r66.ru> To: "Tonno Vahk" <tonno.vahk@ma