Dear friends and contesters, ES OPEN HF Championship 2008 will take place this Saturday, April 19th, from 0500 to 0859 UTC on 40m and 80m! We invite you to participate in this nice small contest. The
I am 100% with Randy here. Skimmer is very similar to packet (and even more efficient as I read and hear) in what is offers and the same statistical methods can be used to detect skimmer use as packe
We keep hearing many smart and silly arguments in this everlasting debate but claiming that packet does not help SO much as unassisted guys keep dominating the assisted ones is the most ridiculous of
Hi Joe, well, you are wrong. It matters whether contesters like it and that is the only thing that matters. We are not making money in contesting and it has to be maximum fun for majority. If the pac
Mike, this is not about one royal flush. This is about hitting sets or two pairs at every hand through the tournament. You say that don't post here but help organizers. Well, do you think it has not
Hi John, Just one small thing has being confusing me. Rules explicitly want the MODE to be also added to the Subject and this contradicts your message and some other instructions. I have always felt
Hi Bill, YES. I use exactly Optibeam 5 el 20m / 3 el 40m for SO2R. And also for M/2!! I have had in Multi Op two HP stations TXing/RXing at the same time on the antenna on two bands and absolutely no
Hi Bob, I don't agree that ignoring weak stations and CQing instead is a fruitful strategy for an ordinary station in any contest. You have the luxury to do that from DX location with constant pileup
Randy! I have to clarify. I absolutely appreciate the efforts of making WPX a better contest and I am not saying there is anything wrong with the log checking. I am saying that one can log as much ru
0.0000000000227% Assuming there are 16384 possible suffixes of 1, 2 and 3 characters and spotters being unrelated to each other:) (ok, I know, I know some like suffixes like QRZ should be excluded) E
I feel the "one transmitter" concept is not clear or leaves a lot of room for interpretation. Take MS rules. " Only one transmitter and one band permitted during a 10-minute period. Exception: One?an
I agree with Randy and it seems pretty straightforward, I was amused and amazed to see so many peculiar interpretations of the rule. The only small disturbing thing is that in Cabrillo file you have
Actually I just started to think that it does not matter if time before and after is called OFF TIME or not! IT IS NOT COUNTED ON TIME and that is what matters. The rules (opposite to Cabrillo file,
I think US stations are extremely ethical, at least compared to EU, don't know how the comparison to VE would look like:) I did interesting statistics on ES5RR ARRL DX CW SOAB operation from my stati
Usually I do about 10% 2nd radio Qs in CQWW. 500 out of 5000. I almost always CQ on Radio A and S&P on Radio B. Have got used this way. I don?t know how much I could do with just S&P as I have never
ES5TV and ES2RR will replicate WRTC setup according to the WRTC 2010 rules in IARU and will give out ERAU HQ mult with ES9A callsign! Find our tiny signals (100w, low tribander and wires:) 73 Tonno E
Good question. I just did 48 hours in the chair with one single 3-4 minute break exactly half way for feeding nature:) That means only rose up from the chair for this one single case (and boy I feel
You bet I did not take my chair with me on 2 stop flight to Montenegro:) Ranko has to tell himself (or send picture of the chair), it was real big and fancy director's chair from leather:) He said th