Interesting thread about switching amps in SO2R. If I wern't suffering from a serious infection of lackoftimus, I'd finish my own SO2R set up and try some of this out myself. With regard to the 87A o
Hi Jim, As one statistic point, I made a good faith attempt to determine the true participation level of the last California QSO Party. Out of 463 logs received (real entries), the logs contained ove
don't Battery life is excellent... basically shelf life. I replace mine once a year whether it needs it or not. It can also use an external 12V if you want. The only negative comment I have of the Lo
The 1999 CQP log checking is now completed. If you'd like to see your log report, please send me a note and I'll send it to you. We don't have any way of automating this. Claimed scores can be found
Yup ... 6 dB because we're talking voltage here, not power. We had an interesting IC-756PRO demo last night at the NCCC meeting. The dynamic range was touted as "theoretically 144 dB" Note the key wo
A: You mean they arn't there already? A: Definately YES ... but only if I havn't worked them yet. After they're in my log they become useless QRM. ;-) But isn't that pretty much the way it is now? Wh
Yes, there is yet another way to define Canadian mults. In CQP, we kind of like having 58 mults for the CA guys 'n gals which magically matches our 58 counties. To make this work we have been definin
Kellys' comment gets me thinking a bit. One of the reasons SS is a favorite contest is that is actually requires sending/receiving real data. I liked it better when your birthday was part of the exch
Hi Ed, Thanks for the note (no offence taken). I often throw things out with a bit of tounge-in-cheek if only to make a point. However, I do take seriously the "backup communications" responsibility.
Jim, At least in the Calif QSO Party (CQP), you will not loose anything if the other guys messes up. Its very easy to see this happen since we only use the computer correllation to spot errors, and u
Interesting ... I don't do much SSB, but occasionally get involved (SS was the last major SSB effort) ... after such an ordeal I've noticed that telephone conversations sound like slightly off-freq S
For my two cents worth: I don't think it matters - since (major) maintenance in the middle of a contest is not that common. I wouldn't mind if my competition has someone standing by all weekend waiti
Gosh, I've done that before ... wonder if I violated one of the several different rules posted on several different ARRL web pages. Oh well, I get on to help my club and have fun .. not necessarily t
Great idea Mike! I for one, am always looking for "constructive" criticisms. What better place to get such than this reflector? :) Here is our criteria for checking logs of the Calif QSO Party (CQP).
I like this idea of progressive penalties! Implementing it should be fairly easy in the log checking software. To be fair to the rather large number of little logs, I would increase the penalties bas
Gosh, I've done that before ... wonder if I violated one of the several different rules posted on several different ARRL web pages. Oh well, I get on to help my club and have fun .. not necessarily t
Great idea Mike! I for one, am always looking for "constructive" criticisms. What better place to get such than this reflector? :) Here is our criteria for checking logs of the Calif QSO Party (CQP).
I like this idea of progressive penalties! Implementing it should be fairly easy in the log checking software. To be fair to the rather large number of little logs, I would increase the penalties bas
<< This does NOT stop your logging software from allowing you to record and mark an unclaimed QSO in your log. It does stop your logging software from including such a QSO in the Cabrillo file it sen
Hmmm.... I can't let this go :( Bobs' schenario is correct, but it only consideres one of the two possibilities. Last year I started SS as an A station, got bored and turned on the amp thus becomming