Just a reminder to send me any photos, thoughts, tidbits, racy stories, etc. about your experience in this year's RTTY Roundup. Because of the time it takes to check logs, I won't even start writing
hi all - Just a heads up that I finally have a catering agreement in hand and there will be a contest dinner at the IDXC in Visalia on April 15th. The IDXC people tell me it will be a couple more day
Menu, program, and tickets can be found here: http://www.dxconvention.org/contest Please forward info this far and wide, as appropriate. See you there! 73 jeff wk6i -- Jeff Stai ~ wk6i.jeff@gmail.com
Just a reminder, please get your tickets by Monday the 11th. There will be a bit of a raffle. Menu, program, and tickets can be found here: http://www.dxconvention.org/contest Please forward info thi
We have several plum openings for sponsors for plaques, including some of the major top honors. According to the Contest Branch, we don't have sponsors for the following: W/VE Single Op Unlimited Low
I am writing up the RTTY Roundup article, and in looking at the results data there is a fairly high number of checklogs. I know some of the more typical reasons why one would submit as checklog - you
Thanks everyone who replied, I think I have what I need! - jeff wk6i -- Jeff Stai ~ wk6i.jeff@gmail.com Twisted Oak Winery ~ http://www.twistedoak.com/ Facebook ~ http://www.facebook.com/twistedoak _
RTTY contesting is effectively 50% duty cycle, at least until you need to respond to someone who wants a ragchew. I have run RTTY contests on a K3, and all kinds of FT1000 at full power. I have also
If your current keyboard requires pressing an Fn to get to the F keys, look around for a setting that inverts that, so that the F keys don't require Fn, but whatever the other function is does. I've
John's right. CQWW RTTY is a very fun contest, and pretty much implements the rules being bandied about here. I can attest that - while there is still the inevitable EU advantage from the east coast
Perhaps the WWROF could be enticed into providing a central web location where regional etc. competitions can be organized, promoted, and results maintained and published. A place where you could go
Again, there is an example model of the changes being discussed: the CQWW RTTY. Go look at the results. 73 jeff wk6i -- Jeff Stai ~ wk6i.jeff@gmail.com Twisted Oak Winery ~ http://www.twistedoak.com/
Here's a world wide HF contest that has distance scoring, it was started only 12 years ago, and has a great level of activity. It's coming up in October, give it a try. The break rules are interestin
I'm not suggesting changing anything, I'm just suggesting that if you want a model of a contest similar to CQWW CW/SSB that includes points for in-country contacts and expanded multipliers, the CQWW
Again, here is an existing distance based 80-10m contest. Instead of conjecturing you could just try it this October and see how it plays. Scoring is weighted with more points given for the lower ban
And in time honored tradition, if a station has a bad signal causing interference, let's get his or her callsign and drop them a note. If my transmitted signal is not clean, I would want to know abou
A lovely plaque came in the mail yesterday, for winning single op in the July 2016 NAQP RTTY contest at W7RN. Thank you very much! 73 jeff wk6i -- Jeff Stai ~ wk6i.jeff@gmail.com Twisted Oak Winery ~
Yes, but he said them very well. ;) "2359z to 0000z is both the slowest and the fastest minute in contesting..." - me 73 jeff wk6i -- Jeff Stai ~ wk6i.jeff@gmail.com Twisted Oak Winery ~ http://www.t
I've copied the Makrothen rules to rttycontesting.com until the Makrothen site comes back on line. http://www.rttycontesting.com/makrothen-contest-rules/ 73, Don AA5AU _______________________________