Cabrillo logs use a simple text format, so you can easily merge as many of them as you'd like using any text editor and then input the combined result into Excel to perform just about any analysis. U
No, that is not the spirit ... or the letter ... of the thing. The Field Day rule separating class D from class E doesn't refer to "emergency" power. The relevant term is "commercial" power. If you u
Announcing a planned operation during a contest is fine, but offering a separate award for working it doesn't seem very appropriate to me. 73, Dave AB7E 9A0HQ will be in IARU Contest this weekend on
The responses from those who were DQ'd offer interesting insight into their attitudes toward cheating. These folks admit intentionally and blatantly violating an important contest rule, thereby attem
Agreed. A friend of mine joined me for a M/S effort in the 2008 CQ WW CW contest, and our UBN report shows we were dinged for ten violations of the ten minute rule. I checked our log carefully (which
Yeah, I had the same thought myself. My logger (N1MM) uses the computer clock, which is regularly updated online and is rarely off by even a few seconds, but if the log checking process looks at othe
Given the rhetoric of many of your previous postings here, I find it curious that you choose to be such a purist about some behaviors and so much less so about others. Dave AB7E When I mentioned here
I agree 100%. Why else would people spend extra money on expensive feedlines, or better bandpass filters, or ... well, you name it. (I'll concede that bigger antennas generally have a better pattern
Personally, I think the latest additions to the rules by CQ WW are pretty clumsy and are highly unlikely to have much effect, if any, but we can hardly blame them for grasping at straws to try to get
I'm inclined to agree with all of the points below. Competing in almost any activity can be a lot of fun for anyone, and ham radio is no exception. I'm convinced that is why radiosport is growing in
I expended quite a lot of effort with a sound editor making sure my recorded voice files matched my normal microphone voice (while transmitting into a dummy load and listening on a second rig) for lo
That doesn't seem to me to be a very good reason to turn a DX contest into a domestic one. In ANY DX contest, you're pretty much competing regionally anyway, and it has been that way for decades. 73,
That video is a great example of prioritizing style over substance. It's 6 minutes 28 seconds long and almost exactly half of it is taken up with merely cute graphics that don't show anything at all
The CQWW rules say that the use of spotting networks and/or the internet for "QSO alerting assistance" puts a single operator into the Assisted class, but I'm wondering whether real-time propagation
I'm not going to even touch the subject of spotting (self or otherwise) in general, but within a contest it seems to me that this entire discussion about what is proper and what isn't totally misses
The Cabrillo file itself is a simple text file and can be edited with any simple text editor, such as Notepad or Wordpad. Just open up the file with one of those applications, change the "Category" i
I agree that it is frustrating, but I can think of at least two reasons why that kind of thing more or less legitimately happens: 1. The guy you are calling has lots of QRM on his end. Even if he can
Yeah, I forgot that one. In the CQWW contest this past weekend I had guys calling me so far off frequency they weren't intelligible, and the only way I guessed they were calling me instead of someone
That only works if the guy on the other end hasn't been having trouble picking out your callsign. If he obviously has QRN or QRM and asks for a repeat of your callsign or report, and then only finish
I'm not sure the 15% figure for a return to 30 hours is totally valid (I voted to stay at 36 hours, by the way). The survey results are of course very interesting and very useful, but we have to be c