Thanks for the info David. I'm sure this will be interest to those ZL's who want to get reciprocal licences when they visit VK. Maybe the ACMA are going the way ZL went a few years ago, ie reducing s
I'm with Bob, one standard is enough. I wonder what sort of chaos would result on the Air Traffic freqs if pilots used their own personal favourite phonetic instead of the standard ones. To me it see
I don't see them at cqww.com - where are they hiding? Frank ZL4BR _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailma
Stew Perry 160m contest uses grid square scoring, also VOLTA & ANARTS RTTY contests use ITU Zone scoring. 73, Frank ZL2BR _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Co
Tweak the CQ WW scoring rules ? What about a complete re-write that would level the playing field for everyone, because it should be noted that there are some people who do not live in either North A
Tweak the CQ WW scoring rules ? What about a complete re-write that would level the playing field for everyone, because it should be noted that there are some people who do not live in either North A
IMO if you are handing out serial numbers then, yes you are participating in the contest. If you don't send a log in then you are a participant who didn't send a log in. If you purposely or accidenta
Oh dear, that's just plain silly. Do you or anyone else really do this? Frank, ZL4BR _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.con
All those 3 maps show variations when compared to the ITU CIRAF Broadcasting Zones map as published by the ITU: http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/terrestrial/broadcast/hf/refdata/maps/index.html The zone boun
Tim, Your map and all the other "amateur" ITU maps are based on the the ITU CIRAF zone map. Even a close examination of your map shows France is in 3 zones. The significant difference between the two
Plenty of JA's in my logs. Some recent contests: CQWW CW 7MHz only - 236 JA out of 1551 qso ARRL 10M CW - 132 JA out of 648 qso JIDX - 535 qso all JA. There should be plenty of JA's in the JIDX next
Here are some interesting statistics taken from the JARL All-Asian Contest web site - numbers of participants (CW and Phone logs received) for the past few years: Year JA EU NA 1996 457 270 34 1997 5
I would go even father and and remove the multiplier status from HQ stations completely. IMHO giving them multiplier status infers that they are the real big stars of the contest and the rest of us h
It would seem that the EDR guys are in catch-up mode. I received my 2002 certificate about a week ago. Their efforts are appreciated. 73, Frank ZL2BR _______________________________________________ C
Very well said Franki. Some people may find the following of interest. 1) There are about 30 international contests each year that I try to participate in. (So far this year I've operated in 20 of th
Interesting stats Bob, things were very different from this part of the world of course. All Europeans were in short supply here, especially northern and western. Ulli you were one of the strongest o
Could someone please confirm that the contest will be on Feb 21/22 This is the last full weekend in the month, but it's also only the 3rd full weekend. The contest dates are not yet on the ARRL web s
If you think your far away from the major ham radio population centres, you want to try contesting from down here in Zone 32 :-) Tell you what, you sponsor a Zone 32 plaque and I'll sponsor a Zone 22
What DARC could also be saying is that, it's unfair that G/ON/F/PA/EA stations get 3 points for working a SP/OK/HA/LZ/YO but DL stations only get 1 point ! IMO the zone scoring system is fine, but as
I have a list of around 33 international CW & RTTY contests I try to operate in each year (last year I operated in 22 of them). Only 5 of these 33 contests have a separate SO-Assisted category: ARRL