Old news. Worthless. An excuse to wait even longer! Now, something like that in electronic format, searchable, with thoughtful analyses, that would be of interest. But that's a net-add, not a replace
Dear Walt W0CP, Gary KI4LA and Dennis W4PWF, Gary, thank you for posting the remarks, which I'm attaching for completeness. Like many active operators I subscribe to several e-mail reflectors on the
Jim, Apparently, you just "don't get it!" Or if you do, you neglect to discuss it publicly. For me the furor over revamping QST content was just a triggering issue. The fundamental issue on balance i
Gollllllly! Amusing, but save us from the lawyers, please! And to think I was about to let this go, figuring I had made my point. I don't think so. Perhaps what we all should do from this point on is
I think the sugggestion of eliminating QEX/NCJ and putting them into QST deserves a bit more thought. Certainly there are fixed costs involved with having multiple magz that would be eliminated entir
Better yet, install Rich Measures' QSK mod and eliminate that relay entirely. Gary W2CS -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@cont
Do contesters still use packet as opposed to the internet? With the latter I have a wide choice of data sources. With the former it always seemed to me that local clusters were prone to get overloade
Bob, You have more options. First of all, you do not NEED a router. You might decide it's the best option, but it's not necessary. I would add these additional options... 3. Add a hub. Put the hub in
As I said before, you might WANT to use a router for performance reasons, but it is not NEEDED for functional reasons. That statement remains correct. In fact in Bob's original question where he just
On an earlier posting I screwed up. The 10Base2 means of wiring a LAN (using BNC ethernet cards) uses RG58, not RG59 coax and 50 ohm terminator BNC plugs, not 75 ohm. My error. Thanks to N8YYS for co
Ward, I have noticed this. Perhaps it's just the fact that we work tons of EU in DX contests here on the east coast and there's thus a noticeable number of EU stations not zero beat. One thing I do
I'm by far no expert on the history of all this, but my impression is that the assumption is made that contesters are prone to exaggerate their logs. In the past with paper logs this was very difficu
I've used the SIIG PCI serial expansion board on a Windows 98SE computer. Works like a charm. I believe it installed as COM5 and COM6 if I recall correctly. 73, Gary W2CS
<<SNIP>> I fully support this proposal. Something like this was EXACTLY what I was hoping would be the consequence of moving the line scores out of QST. As for some of your assumptions... Personally,
Dave, Your expose brought back some personal memories that were very similar. As a kid I, too, would pour over contest line scores and imagine what kind of station and op skills were required to be i
No, it's not good enough. I say let's try the proposal for a season. It will force the remaining entrants to use or find electronic means. It will force us all to be a tad more prompt with the submi
Ron, we agree on one point. We disagree with each other -HI. Although I like the "for now" part :-) To your points: 1. Outcry: People hate change. We live with it and move on. This is no different. 2
Ed, I think you're attributing the first part of your quoted text to me, which is incorrect. That was the text that my posting was in reference to. Note that first paragraph as an extra set of ">" sy
I kind of like the Sunday afternoon time. It provides the opportunity to work for the Qs. Yeah, not as exciting as running them at 100+/min, but rewarding by other measures. One thing I learned to my