I agree completely. Between ARRL 160, CQ 160's, and Stew Perry runnings, lots of dupes. I had one guy last weekend, 5 times in the log. It's a one-band-only contest so it's not like the guy will shif
level they use? NAQP is a perfect "training ground" for new contesters. For me it was very much the gateway into other bigger contests. In particular new contesters need to be able to find and hold a
It appears we have a collision between the SSB Sprint and NCJ NAS RTTY Sprint both being same night same hours, March 13 2016 UTC. This is not a bandwidth contention (because they are in different ba
Contributing to more one than one score is called "Highly Motivated Operator" or HMO operation and as far as I know, is allowed in all contests. It may not make sense in all contests but is not ruled
I grew up in Iowa and always was taught that was the true midwest. When I asked about Ohio, I was told it was the Mid-East! K9YC asks: CQ WW 1972 Phone, top 4 W6 scores: W6RR 2.3M K6AHF 1.8M W6MAR: 1
My interpolation on CW and RTTY using my personal logs, for 24-34 hour efforts in 48 hour contests and almost unchanged antenna system, after adding two different amps. Note that my numbers only trac
Certainly, Tom! My antenna is a 130-foot doublet, up 75 feet between trees, fed by tuners and ladder line. On 160M the antenna is fed by tying the ladder line together at ground level and feeding it
Dave, while those statistics were my personal station, I also looked at other scores in top-5 or top-10 boxes of the big DX contests. I would generally say that the #5 NA HP entrants have twice the Q
Everyone was on one end or the other of the "you're a dupe"/"no I'm not"/"I can't put you in the log again or I'll be penalized"/"no you won't be penalized"/"look I worked you at xxxx" conversation t
Eric - There are two ways to generate spots in 2016. "Skimmer spots" generated by RBN, and "human entered spots" generated by real people. There are also cluster nodes and spot aggregators and spot d
I do a lot of RTTY contesting. Moving the biggest CW and SSB DX contests towards the RTTY model of in-country-QSO's-count-for-points is not a good idea. Most RTTY contests have always allowed in-coun
I invite all contesters to join me 2300Z-2330Z Friday Nov 4 for a "warm up" for CW sweepstakes! That is 7PM-7:30PM EDT, 6PM-6:30PM CDT, 5PM-5:30PM PDT, and 4PM-4:30PM PDT Friday afternoon/evening. Us
I haven't gotten around to fully analyzing my SS log statistics. But while it is still fresh in my head - I was very impressed this past weekend, with the many new hams I worked handing out checks of
Here are the statistics I compiled about checks and sections in my (N3QE & K3PRC) SS logs this year. I deduped by callsign and mode. If you can put your screen into "fixed with font" mode that'll hel
Barry, try the three hour-long CWOPS sessions on Wednesdays. http://www.cwops.org/cwt.html There's some DX but it's mostly domestic. It's my "real on the air rate thrill" and most hours I can do betw
K8MR asks: The most recent comprehensive list I can find for CW, is on the last 3 pages of the September 2015 CW Sprint results in NCJ: http://ncjweb.com/sprint-scores/cwsprint092015.pdf In the Feb 2
Please join me for some WPX Practice and Warmup sessions this week: Practice session Tuesday night - 9PM-9:30PM EST aka 6PM-6:30PM PST aka 0200Z Wednesday Practice session Thursday night - 8PM-8:30PM
Please join us on the air for some NAQP RTTY warmup and practice: Thursday night 8:00-8:30PM EST, 5:00-5:30PM PST, other time zones in between. 14080-14085, 7080-7085, 3580-3585, shift up necessary t
I think Belarus is always pretty well represented in contests. Counting QSO's with Belarus the past few years: ARRL DX CW 2017: 10 Belarus CQ WW CW 2016: 7 Belarus WAE CW 2016: 17 Belarus WPX CW 2016
rules, No, not all logs are made public. Look at rule V.D. which seems particularly applicable to logs converted to checklogs: "Checklog: Entry submitted to assist with the log checking. The entry wi