NEVER? Not at all true. For the HF contests where mutlipliers count by band, it is very common to move people from one band to another. This is done a lot by DX stations in the CQ WW contest and by
Agree about the challenge of increasing activity... but even though the log submission might be down, I am pretty bullish about activity levels. True, the demographics are working against us, but I
The station might have been in OH (not Ohio). How does one make it acceptable by mandate? I would never feel good about using skeds in a "contest". I would not feel good about using the internet or p
Please don't be taking the lack of contest scores in QST so personally. This is affecting HF contests as well as VHF ones. This debate has run out on CQ-CONTEST (www.contesting.com/_cq-contest) and d
Really? Maybe that is your interpretation. I don't think it can be called the "whole" reason. Here are some other ones that I think are valid: 1. Provide an opportunity for people that never hear any
Well - how about the time they opened up the DX contest to let DX work DX for one year? I am alarmed at this thread turning into ARRL bashing. The CQ VHF contests have much less participation. The AR
Not sure if this was announced here or not. Pardon me if it is a dupe. The 222 MHz sprint is tomorrow night, 7PM to 11 PM local. Rules at http://www.etdxa.org/2003%20Spring%20Sprint%20Rules.htm Tell
Wow - Gene sure got the troops fired up with his article. Nice to have someone like that writing on the subject. Is the distance scoring something people are proposing to help attract newcomers? It i
Jon - can you back that up with hard data? :-) I would like to apologize for my absence from this thread last night. I decided instead to participate in the 222 MHz sprint. I would like to post my co
The robot puking may not result in the call not showing up in the results. The robots are programmed to flag anything that doesn't meet some rather specific criteria. However, if you get a tracking n
I know for a fact that N7NG and N1ND have looked at numbers of participants for the SS and DX contests, because they asked me to supply them. I also believe they are now getting numbers like that for
Well - I think we are doing paralysis by analysis. The ways to increase activity aren't in dispute. We can all do more to help. The metrics can best be used to help us see if it is working. More acti
We have prototyped a web based log entry form that does basically this. Currently, it only works for the NCJ Sprint contests however. While it is easy to use, I think it is slower than using a loggi
Hmm - maybe in a rover... but as I understand it, this technology is now allowed for home stations where this method of preventing more than one signal at a time would not be sufficient. It would see
Sorry - didn't meant to imply it wouldn't. Just that it would be required as opposed to any automatic method. Also, I would think that many stations would slap this together just in time for a contes
Does anyone have a power point presentation they are willing to share for a talk I am giving to a local club on VHF/UHF weak signal work? Tree N6TR tree@kkn.net
I know the sked versus contest thread has been hased over before and probably will be again. And, I know the culture is different than HF contests... BUT Is there a way that we can avoid using a nati
Well, at least that would put the activity into the contest period, which I think is a step in the right direction. I can't help feeling that this contest has already started, and I am 30 skeds behi