At this point most work seems to be progressing towards creating a website, similar to what was presented by the WRTC scoreboard. I suppose the scoreboard "aggregators" could be designed to provide r
As an only vaguely relevant data point... I made about 2/3 of the 40 CW contacts at W1AW/4. Late Saturday night, a HQ station in a small country called. We exchanged the normal data and signed. Immed
This would be a SERIOUS problem for HQ stations in large countries and/or with large ham populations. (i.e., USA, Russia, Japan) I don't know that we would have bothered with 160 meters at all at W1A
I received a private message (from someone who would know!) indicating that my fears were not justified, that it would not be nearly as difficult on the log-checking process as I thought. That depend
I was thinking a larger threshold but allowing contacts with non-HQ stations to count towards the threshold. But your method might work too. <grin>... If the situation is as described, then it does a
About "manufactured QSOs" in Europe? Not at all. Due to geography, I don't think HQ stations outside Europe can compete in this contest. And while I certainly can't speak for the ARRL as a whole or e
... How about... we offer an award to anyone who works some number (say, ten?) of different HQ stations? Working W1AW on ten band-modes wouldn't do it, you'd have to work ten different societies. Thi
I'm afraid this is another proposal that would be ruinous for HQ stations in countries with many hams that are a long distance from Europe. (i.e., USA and Japan) It would take 2/3 of the QSOs out of
W9YT is still around and one of the more active university clubs. They don't seem much interested in contesting these days though. http://w9yt.engr.wisc.edu . Don't see any sign I operated in this co
NOOOOOO! -- Doug Smith WN9NME/4 Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com (try to get that through, with a Novice fist & signal...) _______________________________________________ CQ-Co
Is it fair to penalize the 25 guys whose QSOs vanished? (and in some contests, to penalize them an additional 3 QSOs?) Possibly even a multiplier or two? It could be the difference between a plaque a
Having put (I hope<grin>) the idea of a contest on the WARC bands to bed, how about some comments on another radical idea: - A long-form "non-test". Contest period is a month long, but you can only c
Or, (at least on the high bands) the CQing station has a severe QRM problem on his end, involving stations you can't hear due to propagation differences. (for example, the QRM source is, say, 200km f
Well, I'm perplexed... A friend has an Ameritron AL-572B. While the amp itself works fine, the grid current meter doesn't... no reading whatsoever. Plate current meter works fine. I have checked ever
Can't we have it *both* ways? I suggest we continue to consider categories the way we do now for issuance of awards, and within the official contest rules. On the contest website, we collect and disp
Well, the more we *require*, the more we frustrate less-than-computer-literate non-contesters, and the fewer log submissions we get. However, offering the *opportunity* to submit additional informati
A list of received logs & categories is on http://www.w9wi.com/ham/entries.txt . If you've submitted an entry & it isn't in this list, or if your category or club/team name is wrong, please advise. T
The Sprint rules have incorporated both callsigns into the exchange - you have to send the other guy's call even though you supposedly already know it - and compliance is nearly 100%. Maybe the Sprin
What would concern me about this practice, is what happens if I *didn't* copy your exchange and *did* ask for a fill -- but that request got clobbered by three other stations calling. It's happened t
K4VX also uses monoband amps, though with separate power supplies. One problem with the single-supply design is that a single failure puts *all* bands on low power, not just one band. (and with separ