Hi, Pete. Those are all valid comments ... for today. I think it might be possible, however, to overlay a voice signal with some sort of lower-volume digital encoding that a Skimmer-like application
Why is that? Why would you care how anyone finds you? How will you even be able to tell whether anyone finds you via spinning a knob or via CW Skimmer? If anything, Skimmer spots are more evenly dist
But technology doesn't do everything for you unless you choose for it to do so. You are free to operate however you wish, competing only against others who operate as you do while taking advantage of
That was also very interesting, Randy. Obviously all of those 2,224,164 QSOs were made between one or two of the 3,649 stations who submitted logs, but I wonder how many additional QSOs were made bet
I posted this almost a year ago on the Elecraft reflector, but since the K3 is becoming more popular in contesting circles I thought maybe some folks here might find it useful as well. By itself, the
Some probably think that it will give them special preference in a pileup. Some probably think that it helps to validate their QSO as being made with 5 watts or less. Some probably think that the oth
I see that the Hexacopter received some comments again in the latest ARRL Contest update. It and its sister products are amazing bits of technology, and although a bit pricey it occurred to me during
That's why I suggested that it would also support a wire for continuous power feed. Please re-read my original post. By the way, the Hexacopter is supposedly capable of lifting something in the range
RF is different. Are you saying you'd be willing to touch the tip of a 160m vertical with a KW being fed to it, even if you were just floating up there? I doubt it. Besides, there would be other prox
I've created a web page that documents my rather clumsy efforts to investigate how much difference in signal strength might be noticeable in weak signal and/or contest conditions, with several audio
I don't think you should be so quick to pass judgment on that, Hans. Some contests have begun to include some of the items mentioned by Jorge in their definition of assistance. I don't remember which
Yup ... totally. One of the more indignant complaints I've seen so far came from someone who didn't even bother to read, or at least understand, the published rules. I think it's funny to see the bit
For assisted operating categories, N1MM can receive telnetted spots from DX clusters and CW Skimmer networks and display the callsigns at the proper frequency on the N1MM bandmaps. It is then possibl
Good point. So, in your opinion, would it be legal for unassisted operation to use my own private local CW Skimmer (in conjunction with a Softrock, SDR-IQ, QS1R, etc) operating in normal mode to teln
Any waterfall display, such as CW Skimmer in Blind Mode, easily does that for you right now. Dave AB7E _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.co
Randy, For the record, I am NOT trying to subvert the rules and I totally resent that reprehensible implication. If I was interested in subverting the rules I'd just do it and not say anything to any
Hi, Pete, Well, my original hypothesis didn't only include CW Skimmer ... it included cluster spots in order to make the idea applicable to both CW and SSB. That would indeed mean that CQ'ing station
Along those lines, I wonder there is any repository of recorded I/Q files from CW Skimmer or other SDR program. That would hold a LOT of information since it would capture a wide bandwidth, not just
What am I missing here? The ARRL 10m Contest is a dual mode event ... both CW and SSB are allowed, either separately or mixed. Why wouldn't at least a M/2 category be a viable addition? Seems like it
Of course I would. I'd be competing against other QRP stations, as well as myself and whatever prior results I might have had. I've never operated from a superstation but my current setup is pretty f