Hi Marko, Nice to hear from you. I fully support both of your statements (how often to ID and use of split operation when needed). You are not in the minority. Simply there are less people who were o
Hi Mats, TS 590 is indeed a nice contest radio. But unfortunately operator can change (intentionally or unintentionally) setting in the menu to make it clicking on CW. That cannot happen with K3. CW
Where is the boundary between Connected and Unconnected? The names tell us most (not all) of what needs to be known. Just could not refrain.... I love the game of inventing names for categories. Inst
I do not mind penalties. I like additional incentive to be accurate. But there is one thing that I do not like. I sometimes have to weight the risk of putting down wrong call sign against possible ga
I am not going to be on any side of the argument. But we all know that power cheating exists and proliferates. It has become especially acute after the introduction of the new WRTC selection rules wh
Kelly, I am saying that we should treat this case as a possibility to work out universally accepted methods of pinpointing power violators. That is if we want to keep power categories separate. And t
Hi Kelly, I am not arguing with every acknowledged expert on this forum. I am just trying to summon these experts to suggest the method of fighting power cheating. Are there tools other then RBN to h
You say "To establish RBN analysis as a reliable means of determining power cheating were it even possible would require extensive, controlled experimentation" which I read - "we do not have reliable
Drew, This subject has been discussed here on the reflector in the past and reasons were explained. I will briefly repete them. There are two schools of thoughts. Both have some merits and faults 1)
Drew, 1)Yes it is my argument 2)No it is not my argument. Invalid method is not OK if it is invalid. Since I do not know the details of the method I am not in a position to make a judgment. 3) I do n
I fully agree with your statement Ron. I do not defend RDXC acting I just want our discussion to turm into what can be done to stop power cheating. 73, Igor UA9CDC Igor, With all due respect, IMHO, f
David, May be K0HB has a correct estimate but I am afraid that amongst those aiming for the result the percentage is a lot higher. And it will increase after this discussion because they will be more
Mike, I agree that RDXC approach to adjudication of logs should have been described in the rules. Having said that I do not know of any other contest sponsors who publish their methods of adjudicatio
I remember QSL card from W2PV with the stamp on it 10 kW. We were allowed only 200 W that time. 73, Igor UA9CDC -- Original Message -- From: "Bob Kupps via CQ-Contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com> To:
Almost 60% of his QSO's were with Europe. The Canary Islands are about 2100 miles from Germany. This is about the same distance as Atlanta is from Seattle, WA - 2180 miles. Jeff / KU8E Jeff, Ekaterin
There is RAEM contest in December http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/contestdetails.php?ref=209 where you get points depending on distance plus some bonus points for stations above arctic circle. 7
Hi Yuri, I just wanted to mention that multy band contest with distance based points already exists. At least in RAEM everybody can work everybody for points. Imagine if US activity in this contest w
Hi Tim, It is there, down the page. Anyway here it is again http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/contestdetails.php?ref=209 or better yet http://raem.srr.ru/en/rules/ or here http://ua9qcq.com/en/con
I am sure as soon as there is more participation from the western hemisphere, they will make it 24 hours. See "Catch 22" by Joseph Heller :) 73, Igor UA9CDC Then why not making it a 24-hour event? Yu
Ward, Very interesting. But this approach begs the question: If prescription finally got wrong (name of the medicine or dosage) who's fault is it? Transmitter or receiver? Should not both sides be pe