Some stats: CQWWCW 2023 had 8058 logs submitted to the contest sponsor. 1122 of those contesters, or 14% of them, submitted their score to 3830scores.com. 893 of those contesters, or 11% of them, lis
Stan, only a fraction of cluster telnet nodes in the widely circulated public cluster node lists include RBN spots. Veteran contesters know that RBN spots are where it's at for CW or RTTY, but a more
Stan, I kept detailed records of raw telnet cluster traffic from ARRL 160 and ARRL 10, logging every single non-RBN spot from the cluster in recent contests where everyone is allowed to self-spot. I
Steve we have a lot of "dit dit" discussion in nccc-blue, the Thursday night NCCC NS Sprint reflector. It would be great for you to join us there and on Thursday nights! Specific to the 4-hour event
I gathered manual (non-reversebeacon) spots from 9 Telnet cluster nodes around the world over the 48-hour ARRL DX CW 2024 contest, deduped them, and counted self-spots to see how widely self-spotting
342 stations self-spotted during ARRL DX SSB 2024 more than 10 times, a clear step up over self-spotting usage in the CW leg two weeks earlier. Self-spotting has been allowed by ARRL for all entrants
As an update: several active contesters told me they were using their cellphone or web browser to self-spot to DXSummit - in some cases hundreds of times - but their self-spots didn't appear even onc
I do note that the phrase "solicit contacts" is used once in the CQWW rules and there seems to be synonymous with "call CQ". Over tens of thousands of words in a dozen emails with me in fall of 2022,
With contests dot arrl dot org still down, the ARRL Contest Branch has put a copy of the rules for this weekend's upcoming ARRL contest, the ARRL International Digital Contest, at an alternate webpag
The first 24-hour "IARU HF" was 1987. For 10 years before that, it was the "IARU Radiosport", allowing 36 of 48 hours as well as VHF activity to count. Quoting my brief history in my July 2023 CQ Con
A correction thanks to N2IC's QST archive: from 1977-1986, ITU Zones (but not HQ's) were mults per band. Boy it'll be nice when ARRL's digital QST archive and contests dot arrl dot org come back onli
The July NAQP RTTY is happening July 20. Please tune up your station and skills for NAQP, by joining us Thursday evening at 0145Z for the half hour Weekly RTTY Test for practice. (That's 0145Z Friday
The final top scores from ARRL DX CW 2024 are in the August 2024 QST. The Internet Archive's snapshot of contests dot arrl dot org is useful for result articles and line scores from 2023 and earlier.
We are less than two weeks away from the biggest RTTY contest of them all, the CQ WW RTTY, running the 48 hours of Sep 28-29. Get some practice and exercise your station and computer with the Weekly
Jack W6FB asks: They were types of disqualification in the 2010, 2011, and 2012 CQWW rules. You can find hundreds of CQ-Contest posts of folks arguing/disputing red vs yellow disqualification in the
Jim, I will do an update of SS HMO records and post to CQ-Contest. I last posted in fall of 2022 I think. I can envision clubs setting up "station swaparounds" for 3-way synchronized HMO's. The usual