Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:42:37 -0700
This came to me via the West Gulf Division Newsletter. The Programs and Services Committee is the same standing committee to which the Contest Advisory Committee also reports. Presumably this means t
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 05:57:51 -0700
Actually, almost every contest I know of is based not on "making contact with the most number of different stations over the greatest distances possible" but instead on the principle of "making conta
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:06:49 -0700
Maybe I can clarify the confusion. The fundamental problem burdening VHF contesting today is the "team" problem. You have some station that get on the air as individual station competitors (be it a m
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:37:36 -0700
Amateur Radio contests are competitions. It's a sport. That's the whole reason we keep score and rank entrants. There's nothing wrong with healthy competitive interest being someone's motivation for
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:14:14 -0700
This has nothing to do with the ARRL Club Competition. If it did, wouldn't the "mother ship", W2SZ/1, have listed an ARRL club on its log submission? It never has. What about N6NB/R? Did that circle
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:10:49 -0700
Since we've brought up the Sprints, here's how the log submissions have been for the past seven years: Jan VHF Jun VHF Sep VHF ETDXA 6M ETDXA 2M 2004 833 765 558 52 53 2003 798 817 520 60 59 2002 802
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:52:46 -0700
Speaking of radiosport... I was a competitor at the IARU Region II ARDF Championships held a couple of weeks ago in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It involved two days of competition in the woods of the mo
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:07:21 -0700
Not really. My point is, where the cost incurred per participant is significant, an entry fee makes sense, but where the cost incurred per participant is small, the entry fee may do more harm than go
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:17:59 -0700
A "captive rover" generally describes a rover whose activity in the contest is exclusively intended to benefit a particular fixed station. The rover may be using equipment partially or entirely suppl
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:14:13 -0700
Of all the many stations on the 33cm weak signal band today, I would bet that 99.9% of them operate on 902.1 MHz +/- or in a few parts of the country 903.1 MHz +/-. When a captive rover is given gear
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:38:15 -0700
I admit that I don't understand this idea that contest logs are or should be proprietary or secret. I don't actually read anything in the contest rules that says the ARRL agrees to keep logs secret.
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:43:51 -0700
The ARRL contest rules specifically discourage captive and circle roving. General Rules for ARRL Contests on Bands Above 50 MHz 2.3.5. reads "All Rovers are encouraged to adopt operating practices th
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:10:45 -0700
Aside from the technicality that this predates the official creation of the rover category, yes - that is an excellent example. -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:35:40 -0700
If captive rovers are "mythical" then explain why the ARRL's recent Ad-Hoc VHF/UHF Study Committee was tasked with (among other things) "Strengthen the rules to minimize the rover practices known as
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:36:52 -0700
My comments: * The number one, overriding goal of radio contests should be "competition." In the ideal world, the winner of the contest should be the best-designed station operated by the highest per
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:12:10 -0700
You are correct that a lot of stations participate in contests for purposes of DXing, on both HF and VHF. Some even submit logs. But radio contests are, and should be, like marathons or triathlons ra
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:07:16 -0700
The Henry 2002 takes 100W to drive it to full output, right? The FT-847 only does 50W on two meters. The IC-910H does not have six meters at all, nor a provision to add six meters. It would be a lot
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:08:44 -0700
This statement is interesting because it says a lot about the current debate. My statement was that, all other things being equal, the winner of the contest _should be_ the best-designed station oper
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 19:45:38 -0700
There is no contradiction. The very first rule in the General Rules is: 1. Precedence of Rules: 1.1. Rules for individual contests or events, including Field Day, take precedence over all General Rul
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 18:56:33 -0700
I'm not sure why Dan is having trouble posting to the list... please feel free to get in touch with Dan directly, as well. -- Forwarded message from "Henderson, Dan N1ND" <dhenderson@arrl.org> -- --