Suppose I came up on your frequency after you had already sent the word TEST. What I hear is just your call sign. How do I know whether you are calling CQ or just calling someone. I think TEST after
Matts, I am not going to defend the offenders of the existing rules but SAC from here is such a dull contest that it would only benefit from change of rules allowing skimmers and cluster. Alternative
Valery, Big thanks for super useful site. It is amazing source for reference. Adding video links makes it even better. Thank you for your contribution to ham radio contesting. 73, Igor UA9CDC _______
Mario, New rules do not exclude octopus at all. They give the edge to those MS who have separate antennas to operate multiple stations on the same band. Another issue is power limit. 3V8SS says the p
Annual Ural Contest Group contest took place on the 4th of June near Ekaterinburg (UA9C). The contest is utilizing first 6 hours of EU Region 1 Field day. All SO participants are using 100 watt and S
Thinking it can be of some interest to the public here are 3 pieces of video from the recent Ural Contest Group championship. This year it was 12th UCG contest (we have started back in 1999). It happ
I am reposting this from Spiderbeam reflector on the request of Con. That sounds like a pretty interesting offer for most of the European clubs. EU Region 1 field day is a very good venue for organis
The number of submitted logs is not really a measure of the contest popularity. The number of QSOs in the submitted logs would probably be a better indicator. ARRL from UA9 is one of the most boring
Just recalled: Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas 73, Igor UA9CDC __________________________________________________ For 50% of the operators at WRTC the only qualification needed is to be a friend
Has it not started in ARRL DXCC program with checking and rejecting QSL cards first and then later with LOTW extra security measures? Why us, non US citizens should send there copies of our passport
Neither do I. Still I do not understand why can't this phrase be applicable to contesting. After all we humans are all prone to making errors. I for one have no problem allowing public access to my U
RDXC results of this year are now available on the contest site http://rdxc.org/results/2011/results.asp Sponsors of this excellent contest has yet again managed to surprise many of us. All the DQ de
Hi Wally, I frankly do not know the reason why there is no MM category in RDXC yet. Hopefully there will be one soon. In the mean time why not try 6 single band entries? That will keep at least 6 mem
Juha, I think they introduced this new rule to avoid overcrowding bands with a lot of strong signals. Those who are capable of alternating CQ on the same band in fact occupy two frequencies. Usually
Bob, Your explanation is not universal. What about RTTY or PSK contests where "machine identifies every callsign"? _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@c
IMHO it is going to be really difficult to draw a line here for digi modes. What is the definition of single channel? What passband is narrow enough? What about SO2R or 3R or even more R? Can one us
Kim, Are there plans to make SAC a bit livelier then it is now. IMHO in present form for outside of Scandinavia participants it is more DXing then contesting. And not very thrilling DXing indeed. Wit
I sure second that. In fact even the given list of contest can be shortened. For example there is plenty of unused space on 20m band in UA9 during ARRL. I recon the same id true for RDXC in NA. Why d
Hi Randy, Do you think that CC would be able to DQ the reported station based purely on the report of a local group or individual? 73, Igor UA9CDC -- Original Message -- From: "Randy Thompson K5ZD" <
Matts, with 59 plus 60 signal no one can sound perfect. Most modern radio have only 30-35 db of IMD on TX. "Linear amps" often make it even worse. If I were on the CC I would allow any power as long