Personally, I'm not interested in using any artificial chemical means of staying awake. The stress of staying up for 40+ hours pounds my aging body enough without adding drugs with potentially danger
My dedicated S&P rate is much lower than Randy's. It's an area of my game that needs a lot of work. I can do 50-60 per hour if I try hard, but if I don't focus on rate and make the right decisions, i
Right. What's been missing in this discussion is that if a General class licensee operates at a station with an Extra class control op, the control op's callsign must be used if the station is opera
Well, the FCC rules don't say anything about borrowing callsigns, but I think there's a loophole. Although there's a primary station location on each license, that's not the only station of which you
I thought that was the case, but was misled by the use of "primary station license grant" in Part 97. Maybe that's old wording that never got deleted. In any caee, the point is that you can "borrow"
I don't speak for the ARRL DXAC, but I believe the relevant DXCC rule is: 9. All stations must be contacted from the same DXCC entity. The location of any station shall be defined as the location of
Six hours seems a little long to me, and might make it difficult for those who have a hard time sitting in the chair for very long periods of time. Also, if you want to get in a full 24 hours, and mu
I agree with Ralph completely. I have four GH controllers: three for a stack of TIC rings and one for an M2 OR-2800. The GH is perfect for TIC rings: accurate to one degree or less, flexible and effe
I won't comment on the merits of the rule, but I'd like to point out that many participants consider contesting much, much more than a hobby. There may not be big prizes and millions in endorsements,
Anamolies like this are inevitable with a continent-based scoring system. I think the only way to fix it is to use a scheme based on actual distance, such as one QSO point per 1000 kilometers of dist
Without extra credit for distance, there's less incentive to work the world. Countries and continents with large population would have less incentive to work outside their borders, except to get indi
If you want a really nice footswitch, get one of these: http://www.drillspot.com/products/43518/Linemaster_632-S_Foot_Switch They also make a dual model for Motorola: http://www.motorola.com/Business
Yes, and recruiting operators is a constant challenge for station owners. CQ WW is probably the only contest for which recruiting isn't a major headache. That's because it's the King of Contests with
LoTW uses a 30 minute window for matching. If the QSO times have a difference of greater than 30 minutes, the QSOs won't match. It's easy for this to happen if you logged local time instead of univer
Neat. It's fun to see all my scores in one place. Thanks for putting this together, Randy! 73, Dick WC1M The online score database now includes the complete results from 30 years of the WPX CW Contes
In ARRL contests, CW decoders that operate on a single frequency are legal in all categories. Software, hardware and tranceiver based CW decoders like this have been used for years and continue to be
Hi Bud, Thanks for the input. It will be considered in the CAC's deliberations. All 16 CAC Divisional representatives are experienced contesters and most of them consult other contesters in and out o
It's best for me to limit my public comments on the ARRL DX tasking while the CAC is still working on it, but enough people have asked why we're looking at the rules for the contest that I feel a res
Steve is correct. The test rescoring of logs will use coordinates from the CTY file for DX locations, and coordinates for the approximate center of State/Province for W/VE locations. This has the adv
Doesn't some of the data already exist? HFTA comes with elevation statistics files for the ten US call areas that contain arrival angles for seven popular paths averaged over at least one solar cycle