Recently, K5TR received a reel-to-reel tape of my operation in the 1973 SS CW contest while operating at W6DGH (now N6AA). I had just turned 19 and this was probably my first SS with a "real" station
I am sure many people are asking themselves this same question. In general - there are very few cases when uniques are removed from logs. I know some contests around the world do this, and at least o
Gee Rick - I see the word "must" with a list of the information that must be sent - and the word "may" preceding the example. And no - we don't need no stinkin' sunspots - see you all on 160 this se
Interesting debate about the uniques - but I would like to encourage people to think about "the other side of the equation". When I see comments like this: I feel like the person is looking at the si
If a club was trying to achieve a higher club score - why would all of their members get on and just work one station? They would work other club members and each other AND they would send in a log.
I have the same issue - and still hear things others can't at the high end. Two solutions I have seen: 1. Back before we had audio filters, there was a circuit in the older handbooks called something
Both EI7M (on CW) and PJ4W (on SSB) have QSOs on 160 meters before and after the time of the "QSO" as shown in the K3BU log. It looks like the inconvenient truth is that these NILs had nothing to do
One of my best suggestions would be to send you wife away on a contest weekend for a "well deserved break from the kids and some quiet time at the coast". She leaves on Friday afternoon and you make
Hard to believe the kids are back in school and 160 meters is starting to show signs of life (ZS6WN worked last night). This must mean the September CW Sprint is near. So - time to reconfigure you st
With the CW Sprint coming up tomorrow - I still have some slots on the second Corner Pocket team for those who would like to join. I have stations from all northwestern entities except VE6 - so I rea
In the recent CW Sprint, I am losing two QSOs (with additional two QSOs worth of penalties) because I didn't QRS enough (or at all). The station I was working asked for a repeat - but I didn't hear i
The September CW Sprint scores can be found at http://www.kkn.net/~tree/cwsprint-200609.txt Tree N6TR tree@kkn.net _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@c
The full result package isn't complete yet, but the scores are posted here: http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew-2005.txt Tree N6TR _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list C
The 2005 Stew Perry results are now posted on the Stew Perry web page: http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html The next running is 1500Z December 30th to 1500Z December 31st, 2006. 73 Tree N6TR tree@kkn.
I have to take some responsibility (I think) for these concepts and terms as I think I had a hand in creating some of the technology used to perform these activities. I remember having the ability to
To which I could say something like - Wouldn't it be nice if contest operators could use the search function on the cq-contest web interface? If they entered "unstable" into the field, they would see
I think the logic comes into focus when you see a pattern of behavior over a number of QSOs where the average time from when a spot appears until it appears in the log is significantly different than
I think part of the problem is that we have different tints on our mirrors, and what one person might think is an okay practice is seen as being not okay by someone else. One of the great values of a
This is certainly an issue that is likely to create much discussion. My thoughts: 1. There is no doubt that using a callsign database can make it easier to get pull a callsign out of a pileup or nois
It's this kind of common sense logic that often extinguishes some of the more silly threads on CQ-CONTEST. Of course, you could talk about the tow truck driver who didn't see the old lady - and someo