Seriously?? You probably have memorized the callsign prefixes of close to 300 different countries ... keeping track of six heading numbers should be trivial by comparison and takes no greater number
It's odd how some people try to turn every debate into an issue of instant gratification. It's the same tactic used by others who generalize about politics, or generations, or gender, or religion, or
I rarely S&P, and it's the casual contester I'm talking about ... the ones who aren't necessarily trying to maximize their score. They're there just to have fun, and could very well be drawn to the p
The fact that you don't consider that to be a penalty gives me some insight into the reasoning process behind your proposal. It also seems to have escaped you that there are elements to logging a QSO
Radiosport and video games are, however, competition ... with both of them having elements that are every bit as intense as any athletic competition. I fully agree that gamers and contesters are not
In general, and while I empathize with your concern, I don't think that it's very practical to have a restricted antenna category in a contest. It's simply too arbitrary to draw the line between all
I've often thought that a bit of SDR software might be able to accomplish this. My thought was to use a sliding cursor on a spectrum (panadapter) display to center on a particular signal, "capture" t
Hhhmm .... I think there's an issue of timeframe here that you're missing, Hans. And it's fundamental to why the ARRL and CQ, at least in theory, defer to established institutions like the U.N. to de
Why does everyone assume he was running a remote station? It seems much more likely to me that he was just some stateside knucklehead bootlegging a YO4 callsign in order to drum up activity. Dave AB7
Just because your software can't properly decode 40 WPM in the noise and QRM of a contest does not mean that the other side is sending bad code. But if dicking with other contesters is how you get yo
I don't think anyone missed anything. The point of Rick's post was that submitting real time scores should be an obligation. That's just silly. Our only obligation is to compete fairly and honestly.
The 2014 CW disqualifications have now been posted. It's quite interesting to see the several repeat offenders that made the list for both SSB and CW ... and for the same reasons. 73, Dave AB7E http:
Totally this. A few years ago I was operating in the winter NAQP SSB contest when I tuned across a running K9 station while I was looking for a run frequency. The guy was about S9+10 and totally unre
Attitudes such as yours are how we got to this point in the first place. People have been publicly ignoring bad behaviors for decades, and there are still folks who privately claim certain knowledge
It always amazes me how people can be so declarative about "the way it is", and so narrowly interpretive of it, when expressing their own personal views. For example, if I happen to read/decode CW of
I never said anything about CW decoders, and for the record I am completely against their use in unassisted categories. Regarding waterfalls and panadapters, they are indeed a visual aid for finding
As usual, I find myself agreeing with Kelly. I don't think that W2CSI's proposal is as fundamentally insidious as Hans makes it out to be. I don't think it would do a thing to promote more contest pa
He was talking about the contact number that hypothetically would be selected via raffle ... after the contest was over ... for a prize. The contest SNs themselves would still be sequential. Dave AB7
Doug, I totally agree with you on this, and have for quite some time. I used to use SCP some years ago, but don't anymore because it simply feels like cheating. Yes, most of the time it is prudent to
Well, there are those pesky things called "rules", which generally state that the contacts you make and log should be the result of your own efforts **during the contest** ... that last part being ap