As K3ZJ kindly pointed out, the WRTC2018 competitors logs are available online: http://www.wrtc2018.de/index.php/wettbewerb/finale-scores It's neat to look at their operating patterns and see who wor
Keep in mind that I write the below from a "Contesters perspective" but maybe toned down for lower FT8 expectations. The official flag day for the new 77-bit FT8 messages was Monday Dec 14 with the r
Ed, in one of the single-hour "contest mode trials" of WSJT 2.0 release candidates, I hit 36 FT8 Q's in an hour. The abbreviated contest exchange and the fact that most of the guys on had some contes
Vince, I didn't reply directly to your E-mail because I didn't want to sound like a broken record as I have already carefully looked at my FT8 usage over the past year and posted here. But some furth
I'm kind of familiar with CBS log analyzer, and N1MM statistics pane. As I get myself ready for WPX SSB, I find that all the log analyzers count Q's per hour, but I wonder: is there a log analyzer th
I don't know about the current ARRL logchecking. But several years ago, some archaic Canadian province abbreviations were still accepted just fine in the logs for several contest sponsors. e.g. PQ an
I don't know of a single contest that bans CW decoders. In many contests (e.g. CQ WW and CQ WPX), using a CW decoder is allowed and will put you in the assisted category. In ARRL contests, using a si
I am a gmail user, and I can't find any LCR's for my WPX or WW entries in my gmail inbox. Can anyone remind me, what the "From" or "Subject" line would read? Any other gmail users who have advice for
Martin, it is a bust of RL7C: shoppa@mini-me:~/ham/reversebeacon/raw_data$ bzcat 20190705.csv.bz2 | grep ' 04:3' | grep 7013 UA4M,UA,EU,7013,40m,RL7C,UA,EU,CQ,8,2019-07-05 04:35:25,28,CW HG2EWS,HA,EU
On the subject of "it can't be a valid contact without a 73, can it?", there was a QST "The World Above 50 MHz" column on the FT8 contest operations, that led off with the re-assurance that there is
Curious about techniques and tips by other contesters in the WW Digi practice sessions. Also curious about their scores and band distributions kinda like if we had 3830 for the practice sessions. Is
The contest results authors I thought were doing a great job making contesting sound interesting to the wider ham audience and they always had great pictures of the hams and their stations, I work on
Get on the air Friday night for some Sweepstakes CW practice. A great way to test out your station and macros! We will practice Friday night 9PM-9:30PM East coast time. That's starting at 8PM in Cent
CT1ILT asks: The raw RBN spot archive is actually available online for research by anyone interested. Go to reversebeacon.net, click on "dx spots", then "download raw data". For past 4 years: 2016: 6
I was a vigorous participator in the CQ WW Digi and have some thoughts about the high NIL rate. First of all - I was not at all surprised. I work with some DXpedition QSL managers and they have been
I originally had some thoughts like you. Folks unfamiliar with logging details or imagining a requirement for a 73 might have been the source of most of the NIL's. Then I asked Ed to send me my LCR a
Ed N1UR asks: ends. And the operator really is helpless to change that? I'm not sure we can completely blame the computer. There is still human judgement as to whether the QSO was complete and should
Often in a near-zero-beat pileup, it's the longest often 2x3 callsign that gets pulled out. WN4AFP is the perfect example. I don't understand why 1x1's are so popular in England. There must be some s
The DX even busts Mike Delta as sent by the best stations. By far the most common bust is MA. ** Stations Copying W3LPL Exchange Incorrectly ** 7153 PH 2017-03-04 0009 G5W 400 W3LPL MA should be MD 7
In his CTU talk, Ed W0YK introduced me to the "Two Generals Problem" - a concept that was not discussed formally in communications theory until the 1970's - and its relation to contesting NIL's. Of c