K5ZD asked: the purposes of contest club competition? Distance seems to be more like a top-end limit for an aggregate group competition. Instead of defining it, distance categorizes it. Problem with
K3BU replied to ex-VR2BG/p's post suggesting that aggregate group competition in radiosport as it currently stands favors population density: When I wrote my post, it occurred to me (once again) that
Raises an interesting question for those on either side of the guy who had his score calculated based on being ~1100 km away from where he actually was: When does the order of finish matter? 73, ex-V
So now all the UAs who have operated elsewhere in the past with their USA calls might be legal now? Countries don't go around making agreements that apply to people that aren't theirs. CEPT is perfec
Absolutely not true. Somebody controls what can be said on cq-contest & as just noted by E73M, sounds like posts are still disappearing like entries in CQ WW results. And there is nothing else like c
ZL2TZE added: I receive the digest, which does not have a reply-to header - so replies to that rely on the poster's mail client using the address of the sender of the digest. My guess is that those w
Here is an example of what is acceptable to do to contest logs after the event ends: http://www.hellocq.net/forum/showthread-t-166667.%E6%AF%94%E8%B5%9B%E6%97%A5%E5%BF%97%E6%A3%80%E6%9F%A5%E5%B7%A5%E
W5OV declared: We have, have we? <snip> http://www.hellocq.net/forum/showthread-t-166667.%E6%AF%94%E8%B5%9B%E6%97%A5%E5%BF%97%E6%A3%80%E6%9F%A5%E5%B7%A5%E5%85%B7--SH5.html <snip end of sentence, as t
There was once a contest that had defined in its rules what was "operating". Since radiosport is a competition based on operating, this made a lot of sense to me at least, as it made it very clear wh
LA4RT pointed out after mention of the EI national society bringing the subject of remote operation of amateur stations across national borders to IARU R1: I think the words in CEPT say something tha
N2TTA asked: Unless things have changed in K since I left, someone with a lower class operator's licence cannot operate a station other than within the limits of their operator's licence. If the stat
WC1M replied to W0MU: Without the control operator, the lower class licensed operator couldn't even operate the station legally outside the privileges of the lower class licence. That the control ope
Would this discussion have been any different if we had remembered this? http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2005-04-22 Or were aware of this? http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?l
Somebody asked: Why do half of the JA stations choose to skip ARRL DX? Because just working you lot is boring. 73, ex-VR2BG/p. _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list
Another dimension to this skimming thing is spotting on wrong frequencies. Or the wrong band. Take the RBN data for a day - a non-weekend day is better, as few stations actually on >1 band at once th
UA9CDC added: Another dimension to this skimming thing is spotting on wrong frequencies. Or the wrong band. Take the RBN data for a day - a non-weekend day is better, as few stations actually on >1 b
S56A added: VR2BG/p wrote: How many wrong frequency spots are there on RBN? I had short 10 minutes CQ run in ON UBA CW contest this morning with 100 W and tribander on 14025,75 kHz. RBN had 3 spots o
AB1J commented on ex-VR2BG's suggestion: Because just working you lot is boring. I agree with this, which is why the ARRL DX has never been one of my favorite contests. It lacks the excitement of a t
Bret, I am a little puzzled by your complaint. When you refer to "wrong-frequency spots" are you referring to spots that vary by 0.1-0.2 KHz, or to imagesequidistant from the center frequency of a g