I agree completely with this. And with new technology like the Flex Radio Maestro (which I've gotten to play with at K9CT) you'd never even know the difference. The Maestro controller behaves and loo
Although we conveniently use the internet, there is no reason it has to be that way. The connection between remote controller and station could be done by landline phone, Inmarsat, or even microwave
Well, this is very interesting! I'm glad the contest will continue to be in August. I am guessing the weighting, or "band factor," is set up to encourage activity on the lesser-used bands? There is o
This is something I have always wondered about. What happens if a station sends the wrong data, particularly if that wrong data affects scoring? Suppose a station was in EWA but sent WWA in Sweepstak
That seems to only apply if the station isn't sure what zone he's in or asks what zone he's in. If the station is very assertively sending the same zone number QSO after QSO, no matter where I think
Exactly! I don't know why it is so hard for some people to grasp this. If the path between the transmitters/receivers of both stations is via the aether, ionosphere, free space or whatever you want t
I have been trying to say that these "irrefutable facts" are indeed refutable. I know of quite a few instances where a station was controlled remotely by other means than internet. Some of them are,
Apparently there are people who think that something like: Operator > control > radio > antenna > repeater > *internet* > repeater > antenna > control > operator is the same thing as Operator > contr
For some reason this makes me think of the KCDXC CW Pileup Contest each year at Dayton. It's "scored" in real time and you get to see the results when you walk out of the room. 73, zack W9SZ ________
"*Score:* Natural log of e raised to the power of the number of contacts where e = Eulers number." THAT's hilarious! 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing l
I don't know exactly when it originated, but it was all the rage when I was a Novice in 1967. At the end of a QSO, one station would send "dit dididit dit" and the other station wound respond "dit di
None of these lists have been very active in a while. DX-IS is kind of the current formation of the original VE7TCP list which was adopted by KH2D for a while, and then by VE1DX. So it's been around
Radiosport is the only type of contest I know of where you increase your score by increasing the other guy's, too. It's just a matter of - can you increase more people's scores than he can? :-) 73, Z
Re: Number 1 - Marathons are vaguely similar to ham radio contesting. The Illinois Marathon had close to 800 entries this year. They can't all win. There are age group categories, e.g. men's 20 to 30
Oh, yes, I remember that! I was also in that group. That's when I got my current callsign. My old friend and Elmer W9RCJ ("Ragtime Cowboy Joe" - now an SK) told me that the original holder of the W9S
That's right. I was trying to remember the criteria. I got my Extra in 1971 so I fit under the #3 criteria. Getting the Extra was a rather humorous event. I went to the Chicago FCC office to take the
Um ... because they were on the air? (Ducking and grinning) 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com
I have been observing this whole thing as an innocent bystander. I wasn't at the station in question during the contest, so I have no idea what actually happened there. I don't know what the contest
A possibly somewhat insignificant question, but I'm curious: Are there specific QSO's the log checkers want to hear in the audio recording? Or does someone have to sit and listen to 48 hours of someo
Hi Bob, I'm assuming this means during the contest period. Outside of the contest time, anything goes. And I'm guessing they just have to spell out that a separate individual can't stand there and tu