Yes, of course I understand all of that. That's why I posed it as an example ... because I think it's fundamentally the same thing for Yuri. I can't think of a single reason why the contest sponsor h
VOACAP does indeed predict optimum arrival angle for any particular path, but that's based upon statistical averages -->by month<-- and has no bearing at all to instantaneous conditions ... which can
I'm afraid I don't understand. The vertical pattern of a horizontally polarized antenna has very little dependency upon element length, and certainly not within element lengths that would provide any
Arriving signal polarity is indeed something that others have found to be quite variable at times. It is generally accepted that HF skywave signals arrive with an elliptical polarization, but the sha
Or you can judge for yourself at http://www.ab7e.com/weak_signal/mdd.html 73, Dave AB7E Go for the 1500W amp. If you haven't seen it, watch the recent webinar by N6BV at the PVRC site. Dean addresses
I understand the political correctness of that statement, but I guarantee that it isn't accurate. I've written on this subject at length before, but the reality is that WAY more of us will cheat unde
If you define "the norm" as being within one sigma of the mean, then yeah ... I do think that cheating is considerably closer to being the human norm than it is to being out at the 0.1 percent point.
I'm just guessing here, but I'll bet that a large percentage of the time it takes to publish results is used to double check all the anomalies that clueless people build into their logs one way or th
C'mon, Paul ... that's a totally broken segue. We'd have the exact same problem if the world was blanketed with an amateur HF/VHF/UHF packet network that was entirely RF. It's the reliance on being s
I agree 100%. Trying to regulate the practice away is unlikely to be effective ... the key is to make bad behavior counterproductive for the offender. The running station needs to be in control to av
The interesting thing is that you wouldn't necessarily need a box. It could all be done from a logging program if all the stations were networked and using the same logging program. The logger could
I have to completely agree with Steve. A large pileup invariably covers more spectrum than a small one as callers tune slightly off frequency in order to be heard. If the DX station jumps to a new fr
For once ... ;) ... I have to completely agree with Paul ... amazingly on every point he made below. A "contest" without rules is not a contest at all, and history has shown time and time again that
"Until then I think the public outing of the perpetrators and life time bans are sufficient. " Yeah, that's actually the problem ... those don't happen. You see people posting all the time about chea
That's not a contest, though. If you don't want to contest for whatever reason, that's fine, but it hardly makes sense to make everyone else give up contesting. And just to be clear ... you aren't ag
I'm not sure where you get the impression that both stations sending both callsigns represents efficient communication. It doesn't. The only reason it might facilitate your net activities is that net
That's a rather silly extrapolation. If I'm tuning the band and hear somebody giving their callsign to someone else I don't need to hear it again, and if I didn't hear it I can always ask for it. Wor
Chuck, how did you get the idea I was reading too much into anything? Mr. Harpole clearly stated he felt that it was cheating for both stations not to give both callsigns, and he stated that if they
The problem with Idiom Press seems to be that they periodically go into some kind of coma as far as customer response is concerned. It doesn't take much searching through reflector archives and eHam.
I'm missing the solution part of that. How would that be any different than signing W5GN/1, other than having one less character and making things more ambiguous for logging programs since many count