I purchased a pair of never assembled DBS-2 band decoders from an estate sale. I am having difficulty getting them to work with my Icom 736 and 746 Pro. The original owner purchased them in Aug '05 f
A neat thing about an XML standard for dynamic and non-dynamic contest reporting is that it is based on an accepted industry standard. There are loads of open source tools for handling XML.. Is ther
Won't it make sense to set an XML standard for log exchanges at the same time as setting the standard for results reporting. This way there would be a reference from which developers could begin to w
It might be useful for sending log snippets along with data for real-time scoring. The snippets might contain a log of the last N stations worked during a time interval. A collection of log snippets
Gord - would it be possible to create a list of these solutions and post them on a web site as a reference for other contesters? Perhaps a short article for contesting.com? Syl Sylvan Katz - VE5ZX S
Unfortunately this sort of thinking does little to encourage new participants! An SO1R participant is a different class of contestant than SO2R participant! The sooner the contest community addresse
As I said. It is not a matter of adding another class (or mailing out more paper/plaques)! It simply a matter of reporting contest results on-line and openly providing enough information for contest
So do I Agreed! BUT! Even the most unpractised SO2R op can acquire a few more mults than an SO1R op. When I converted to SO1.5R before changing to SO2R and used it in a contest I immediately gained
Hmmm - according to this logic learning to 'flipping a switch' to turn on a KW doesn't deserve a separate category either! Syl _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list
Right on! Your experience on RTTY is similar to mine on CW/SSB. I can easily add a few mults over the course of a contest without decreasing my SO1R performance. Even without skill SO2R has technica
Not to be pedantic but chaos - as in chaos theory - is actually called deterministic chaos because it is defined by a set of rules http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CHAOS.html http://monet.unibas.ch/~elmer/p
Scientific chaos, deteministic chaos and old, simple common chaos are indistinguishable in a mathematical sense. The point is that just because rules are involved does not mean to an observer or a p
I think these are great ideas! However, such a vision requires new technology. For example, the current Cabrillo format will not handle the additional information. We probably need to migrate to XM
Correct. It is also true for the participant. You are right about the structure on 20m during a contest. However, chaotic processes can exhibit fractal structures indicative of order. Even given the
Ev, the problem is some guys focus on 'paper'. Without categories they are worried that the 'paper' will disappear. This problem inhibits progress by contestants who would like to be able to compare
Well stated! Syl _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
It is difficult to understand how a participant on a city lot located in the black hole of the northern prairies can have a meaningful competition with participants on the East coast of the US, the
Kelly, Kelly, Kelly - let me rattle your cage a bit more :) The provinces and states are politcal regions with geographical boundaries. Why not let me choose the geographical region I am interested i
Oh gosh. Doug we are not interested in the private stuff that gets whispered in to your significant others ear during a tender moment. That would be unsportsmanlike! We are only interested stuff lik
I wonder if Doug (VE5UF) or myself worked you from VE5US in that contest - the University of Saskatchewan club station. The club station was quite an active contest station through the 1960s/70s. Hm