OH1NOA suggested to M0CLW: Two main stream programs (one probably being the most "popular") don't generate valid Cabrillo for a mainstream contest like IARU? Like logs received for the recent ARRL DX
Interesting suggestion from KC1F - that there is something different about WRTC entries. What do WRTC participants have to log? Cabrillo has no provision to log more than a completed QSO, showing ban
UA9CDC continued from W9WI's post: The ultimate problem is that no one format will work for all events. Cabrillo solves this by adding things to the specification - new summary sheet fields, addition
UA9CDC added: But there is no QSO template in the spec for RDXC, according to: http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo_v3/qso-template.html So even with v3.0 Cabrillo, how to do RDXC? Before getting v3.0 b
I had previously posted: I was wrong, RDXC has a QSO template. Thanks to Igor for pointing this out to me. 73, VR2BrettGraham _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list C
N1RR asked: There are all sorts of domestic JA contests going on all the time. Some of them are obvious - JA7 QSO party or the NYP, but there are many more. But they're definitely domestic events. Fo
From the rules: "Count a minimum of one point per QSO and an additional point for every 500 kilometers distance." The station not giving out his grid square is probably not a participant, so no worri
K4SB contributed: OK, let's think about it. Radio waves travel at the speed of light, and a 10 second delay would translate to about 1.86 billion miles before it was again heard. That is approximatel
K1TN took a moment out from his mobile activities to share with us: Re W7RN's echo experience, I don't get all this tooth grinding over solar system distances and conspiracy theories. Isn't this real
K3NA suggested: There would be less SSB contest activity pressure on the bands if USA stations were permitted to operate down to 3600, 7100, 14100, etc... Please, NO! We've got to have somewhere to g
In Region 3, we probably have the same wealth mix on the high seas, but from WA7VNI's & K0HB's subsequent replies to K1MK's post, sounds like there is a difference in legal status of yachties & other
N4GI contributed: I've had a K2/100 in the shack for a couple of months now with my MP, and have operated a a few contests. Some observations: - SWR foldback is wicked agressive, the rig chokes on my
W9WI replied to SM2EKM: As a matter of fact, no; from http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2002/octqtr/47cfr97.119.htm : "Sec. 97.119 Station identification. (a) Each amateur station, except a space sta
Interesting - AD1C wasn't running an amp, yet had lots of folks come back to him as TD1C. I've found that more of the folks that I thought were coming back to UR2BG were actually sending VR2BG, once
I had asked: How many folks use PTT on CW? Where does your PTT line originate from? Why do you do it this way? How would you deal with a radio which not only goes into transmit mode, but also goes ke
W4ZV lamented: According to a rumor from a knowledgeable source on the Ten-Tec reflector, Ten-Tec will address this in an Orion firmware update. I wish you had not told me the K2 had this problem sin
W4PA added: The Orion will have this as an option via a future firmware upgrade. It was actually ready for the Orion prior to ARRL DX CW but making a change to the options available for CW PTT the we
W0UN added: Maybe a different approach should have been to ask how folks would cope with a radio that does only VOX for all modes, in which case there probably would not be any CW-PTT?-we-don't-need-
K1HI replied to KD4D: Nope, I got the missing dit problem in spades when I run VOX keying on my FT-1000MP. When I hit the key, the transceiver switches to transmit and puts the first (in my case) dah
W4ZV added: even if they are a good idea or can be done without changing whatever it is that they think is so important (like sending CW with the mic button). Whoa pardner, you are putting me in the