Yep - it's a DX contest - if you live on the east coast. It is pretty amazing how op's on the east coast piss and moan about any rule change when they are having a ball working Europe and the left co
DX'ing used to be fun when it took a little work to get the DX station. I can remember having to check propagation, figure which band they may be on, LP or SP, where they listening, etc. They had the
But not a whole lot of them operated from the Pacific Northwest (or from the 'black hole'). Even the biggest M/M stations out here finish way down on the list. It is a whole different world, operatin
I call CQ on CW or RTTY and Skimmer spots me. I call CQ,someone calls and I ask them to spot me. What is the difference?? 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest maili
May be we need to go back to the way we were taught as novices back in the day: cq cq cq de w7why w7why w7why cq cq cq de w7why w7why w7why cq cq cq de w7why w7why w7why k Good old 3 x 3 :-) 73 Tom W
Isn't being spotted by the RBN 'assisted'? People say that, "I never use the cluster", but they are being helped by it when they get spotted. All the same as far as I can see - no 'unassisted' catego
Where is the 'Like' button for this comment?? 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listin
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Is there a 'compelling' reason NOT to? Maybe it is because some people CAN'T do it so they don't want ANYBODY to do it. 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
I think you will find that most of the bigger M/M's run 2 radios on each band with 2 op's. They can interleave on 4 or 5 bands at the same time. Talk about taking up bandwidth :-) 73 Tom W7WHY ______
This sounds like it is turning into a Colin Kaepernick NFL debacle. The outcome isn't gonna be good with all the bitching. 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mail
How many are able to do what these op's who are running 2 pileups do. I think not many. Can't see where it would be as big an impact on the spectrum. When you have a multi op where 2 ops are listenin
I think there will be lots of room when guys just quit contesting. I've been doing this stuff for 63 years now and can't believe all the pissing and moaning about rules, etc. . I can't believe someon
What's next SO@R?? 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
Especially when you figure they have 2 stations per band operating at the same time, running and S&p. 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@c
If someone could explain why we HAVE to have spotting, it might make the discussion more relevant. We got by for 60 years without it and now all of a sudden we can't do a contest without spots??? She
Will a human operator still be necessary? 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/c
Ed - you left out the biggie. To win you must live on the east coast with a chip shot to Europe on the low bands. Look at the big M/M stations in the west or midwest and someone with a very modest st
Excellent post Bill. Guys on the east coast just don't understand what it is to do a DX contest here on the left coast with the sunspot numbers in the toilet. If we're lucky, we just MIGHT get an ove
Those aren't sailboats any more. More like some morphodite, hydrofoil, water craft that race each other. Pretty soon they won't even need anyone on board - just let the computers, hydraulics, and GPS