Sent this note to my Director as well as our Contest Club Reflector, and have been asked to post it here as well. Hello Frank, There is currently much discussion among the Amateur community, about th
WOW ... this just hit me ... "The weighting was by license class reported in the FCC database." Wouldn't it be more accurate to weigh the survey by ARRL Members license class, instead of what's in th
<snip> Off the top of my head, the only ones I can see being helped, are the good folks of Tennessee, since their 175-mile circle doesn't cover the whole state ... but of course, the section definiti
<snip> State QSO Parties bring out a lot of "casual" contesters. These are typically folks who don't work a lot (if any) other contests. Folks "in state" are the wanted people, and they can have fun
I know this is off topic .... but as a pre-emptive strike, be careful of a virus that appears to be going around ... http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99367 or http://securityresponse.syman
The results for the 2001 Florida QSO Party are now on-line at the FQP Web site, http://www.qsl.net/fqp The complete write-up and statistics are still being worked on, as well as the Florida County Re
We don't even NEED or necessarily WANT a new category. I think MOST SO1R folks would be satisfied with just adding a simple little asterisk (*) next to a callsign in the results, denoting SO1R or SO2
It did, for example: http://dayton.akorn.net/pipermail/3830/2001-July/045881.html Then what happened? Folks even "complained" that SO2R was shown in the "claimed score" listings ... and they went awa
This is true! When I bust a pileup, it's because my longer call "stands out" from the drone of 1x2's and 2x1's ... and AHZ (or a portion of it) comes through in the clear. Being active on a fairly re
The Florida Contest Group is pleased to announce, that the results from the 2002 Florida QSO Party are now available on the Florida QSO Party Web site, http://www.qsl.net/fqp Besides just the line sc
Well said! I served as Emergency Coordinator for almost 8 years and our core group was well trained. Yes, when we were short handed, we took what help we could get (and put them on easy assignments)
To see the NJ4M FQP Mobile from last weekend, take a look at www.poolspapro.com/K4LOG.htm 73, Ron WD4AHZ -- "The sunshine is a lady who rox you like a baby."
Just a reminder ... the deadline for submitting your FQP logs is May 27, 2003 - 1 week away. Despite the poor conditions, we have already surpassed the number of logs received last year ... and there
Sort of an odd subject ... but don't remember the exact details anymore ... but, a while back, someone put up a web page where folks could enter log info and have a Cabrillo file generated (or submit
I had the same problem and noticed the same thing. I put a comment in the "soapbox" area I was T/S. Hopefully this will get noticed and will be put in the correct category, but ideally ... if it's a
This got me thinking ... just checked my SSB log, and it has this in there: CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW CATEGORY-OVERLAY: TB-WIRES and was accepted. I think I'm going to resubmit my CW log, using thi
You still have to copy the callsign! If you "guess" right ... lucky you. If you "guess" wrong, busted call ... shame on you! information for us....... Not if you make your own! Ron