Just a decade ago, CW contest signals with extreme power supply ripple (causing large sidebands +/-100, +/-300, +/-500 Hz but also out a longer ways to kHz in worst cases) were extremely common from
N4ZR asks: A little like suggesting building a Stradivarius is as simple as finding Mr. Stradivarius' CAD drawings and running it through a 3-D printer. Pete, this is a Commodore 64 and the source co
There are written and printed forms of the Ampersand that can look a lot like "es". The Ampersand itself is not an abbreviation of "es". It is a ligature for "et", the latin word for and. There are s
K1TN's friend asks: I think ham radio is the most fun when I talk to all my friends everywhere, no matter whether they are red or blue ! Tim N3QE _______________________________________________ CQ-Co
I started off Friday night at 0000Z with a RAC log. After the first 14 hours of the RAC I changed my CQ to be just "CQ TEST" not "CQ RAC TEST". And I intermittently operated using this same log, up t
K9MA asks: " Is there a way to have two logs open in N1MM+, or does that require another computer?" In N1MM, to flip between two contests is pretty easy: Alt-F followed by 2 key will flip between two
Did the CD Parties continue up until 1991 when the NAQP's started, or was there a gap? Tim N3QE _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http:
Rich I think you'll enjoy the heck out of this, a personal history of logchecking by N6TR, and it includes some details about WRTC 2006 logchecking: https://www.kkn.net/n6tr/ContestBanquet.ppt Also t
Frank, is it as simple that they made the mistake in calling it a "Contest"? If they called it an "Activity tracker" or "QSO Party" would that have been better? The ARRL encouraged activity on all ba
An early April 1 post? Legislation may change local time. It will not change propagation, UTC time, or sunrise/sunset as measured by UTC :-) Now, ARRL code practice and bulletins are scheduled on loc
Please join the action in the SSB Sprint on the evening of Saturday April 23 (North American Time). This 4-hour contest, running from 0000-0359Z on April 24UTC, is fun for both beginning and experien
Has anyone ever compiled a list of ARRL SS Highly-Motivated-Operator (HMO) records? My initial go through focused on Jim, K8MR. A search on the ARRL Score database found that in 2006 SS CW, K8MR work
First, make sure you have the latest rules. ARRL didn't update the November SS rules (to the latest, version 1.06) on their website until late August. Prior to that we just had a confusing tease abou
Bob W5OV of the ARRL has corrected me. He writes "Your reading of PROH.3 is not correct. That exclusion is specifically about making schedules, soliciting contacts (i.e.; CQing), and sending or recei
Pete, it wasn't until Sunday morning in SS that I began keeping a log of the cluster traffic to look just for self spots. I see 95 self-spots by 22 SS participants in the last 11.5 hours of SS SSB, w
Jim K8MR is famous for his ARRL November Sweepstakes CW "Highly Motivated Operator" aka HMO efforts. An HMO in Sweepstakes, starts the contest over from scratch at a new station using a new callsign
Art, in between 1977 and 1978 the CQWW rules added substantial verbiage defining what was single-op: 1976: Single Operator is just called single operator with NO further details. 1977: "Single Operat
Some stats I've collected: In a typical CQWWSSB contest there are circa 8000 logs submitted to the sponsor. There's been some ups (especially during Covid pandemic to stay at home) in stats and downs
WRT, the Weekly RTTY Test - https://radiosport.world/wrt.html <http://radiosport.world/wrt.html> Due to popular demand for a conventional (non Sprint) weekly RTTY Test, starting Thursday evening Jan