It also invites the question: who needs to cheat with packet to work AZ? Oh, and what K1TTT said, too. 73, kelly ve4xt -- Original Message -- From: "Steve London" <n2ic@arrl.net> To: "N7MAL" <N7MAL@C
Most of the large HF contests predate grid squares, so a switch to grids would be an epoch-changing event. Some of the contests are delineated based on the intended format of the contest: SS was inte
I would like to say this with the greatest of respect for all people sharing their opinions, but really, did anybody even listen to the K5ZD audio before proffering an opinion? Sheesh, all I heard wa
It always amazes me when someone takes a realistic look at the facts of life, that packet operators do not answer to CQ-Contest, and is attacked for having a bad attitude. All the power to someone wh
Because there can be only so many signals in a given amount of bandwidth, what the complainers are saying is that some people shouldn't be allowed to operate SS until a spot in "acceptable" bandwidth
I remember setting up at my sister-in-law's cabin an IC740 and a 36 inch whip with a loading coil for 10 meters at about 3 feet elevation with two radials one year: guys in California would say I was
Considering I'm a peanut whistle in the worst way, 100 watts into an MA5B at 30 feet and an HF6V on the ground, and was still able to run quite well on the weekend, hitting rates of 84, 72 and 96 an
Hello Art, I sympathize, but like many practices we accept, I don't think that because some people aren't yet adept at SO2R is a reason to punish those who are. It's still a legitimate skill worthy o
The difference is thus: The 10-minute rule was, rightly or wrongly, to prevent stations from behaving like M/M but entering as M/S, where an M/M-like operation would have a clear advantage. By defini
Hi Bob, I think the duelling CQ's argument is a bit of a red herring: even the best ops say duelling CQs is only possible when the activity is light enough. If activity is light, then it shouldn't ma
Bill, we've disagreed on this before, but if the best operators say the advantage is maybe 95 QSOs out of 1200, is it that huge? 73, kelly ve4xt -- Original Message -- From: "Bill Turner" <dezrat1242
The point lost due to my desire to be brief was this: we will never know how many of those 95 Qs they would have worked anyway. If they would have worked all 95 regardless, net gain is zero. So even
I think Warren's right, to a point. We have all accepted that to grow contesting, we must allow people the chance to grow. So we slow down when called by someone at 15 wpm instead of our 28. We expla
Let's not forget W4KFC, who did SO2R in the 1950s with pairs of Collins separates. (I'm lousy with Collins model numbers, but these were the big ones, not the Ft101-sized grey models of later years.)
Being rare helps, but you still need to get attention in the first place. 73, kelly ve4xt -- Original Message -- From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu> To: <cq-contest@contesting.com> Sent
Hi Rick, The pre-registering idea would be fine if contests were only operated by contesters. I certainly don't dispute the idea of a meaningful exchange, but how many of the casual guys, without who
I have no quarrel with making the exchange more difficult to copy, however I would warn against anything that an operator can't generate on his own, such as some unique identifier he can only get by
I would strongly suggest that each station use what works best in the majority of circumstances and if not standard, then revert to standard as soon as it appears the non-standard phonetics aren't wo
OK, for a second, I thought Mal's suggestion was a clever tongue-in-cheek little joke. Then someone started taking it SERIOUSLY. Why do we care if it takes someone two or three QSOs to copy an exchan