I think maybe you misconstrued my comment. I never proposed nor meant to constrain suggestions or comments on this topic. I've found each and every part of th discussion to be interesting, and I assu
I've never understood the argument that the rules shouldn't be modified to deal with Skimmer and similar technologies simply because Skimmer doesn't yet work well enough to make a significant differe
Enforceability is irrelevant. We already have all kinds of rules that are impossible to enforce. It's impossible to detect if a single op is getting help with mults from a second ham in the shack. It
I'm not sure I've ever seen righteous indignation carried to such ridiculously unwarranted extremes on such a relatively minor issue, and directed toward such an undeserving crew of volunteers. Someb
From the latest ARRL Letter: "The Board voted to create a Triple Play Award. This new award, set to be implemented by January 2009, will be given to those amateurs who achieve Worked All States (WAS)
Maybe I misunderstood Pete's proposal, but I thought the presumption behind it was that QSOs verified by the contest sponsor (especially if the sponsor was the ARRL) could be loaded into LoTW as vali
I believe that has been proposed at least a few times before and the ARRL has always rejected it out of hand ... usually coupled with some nonsense about QST being the flagship publication that every
My oldest son is a software engineer working for a company in Tucson, but on his own he's lately been playing around with computer virtualization, a software concept that essentially allows a user to
Hi, Tony. The optimum angle (takeoff or reception) for signals is a function of your latitude/longitude, the particular path you are trying to work, and the magnitude of solar flux. N6BV ran tons of
Which do you think is more likely to drive away the average, honest contester ... knowing that others will have access to his honest log or knowing that the cheats are going to be protected by a code
Yeah, it worked both ways. I worked a very loud Scandinavian station that was having a devil of a time raising stateside stations on SSB. He was really puzzled about that until I told him about the R
I've been DXing for 40 years, but I'm a relative newcomer to contesting so I created a simple Excel spreadsheet to help me analyze the logs of others to get some insight into strategy and potential o
With N1MM, I've gone entire CW contests without touching a key, and since I don't ragchew much my sending is getting pretty rusty. I could just use the sidetone on the rig to practice sending stuff f
Some optocouplers have single transistor outputs, and some have Darlingtons (less common). The Darlingtons have higher gain (more sensitive to input current) but like any Darlington they won't pull d
14275 is the notorious hangout of VE7KFM (aka "Radio Canada" as he calls himself) and a handful of stateside outlaws who live purely to compete with him for profanity and idiocy. They show up at vari
While making S&P passes across the band in the contest this last weekend there were several DX stations who simply gave their callsign again at the end of a contact ... no TU, no "dit dit" or other c
I realize your proposal is well-intentioned, but I just have to speak up here. Not only do I think it is extremely unworkable due to it's complexity and bureaucratic nature, I think it would be prone
Jukka, as I mentioned to you in a private email, the problem is that in perhaps 90% of the cases the other station will simply depart the frequency as soon as you send QSO B4 and pause for a reply. M
I don't get it. There is NOTHING in anyone's logs that isn't public knowledge one way or another (assuming someone wanted to go through the trouble to monitor your station). And if the "presumption o
I don't think there's anything "wrong" with KY1V deciding not to submit his log ... for any reason. I do, however, think it's misguided and inconsistent of him to make a public spectacle of it in ord