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