Perhaps they have suffered the same frustrations trying to use it that some of us out here have.... O:-) Bud, W2RU _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@c
June 2006 QST contains a double-barreled reminder of the unfortunate ARRL policy re non-publishing of contest results. With all due respect to Ford and Kelly, I firmly believe a simple tabulation --
Gosh, the original fan in my 30-year-old SB-220 is about the quietest fan I've ever heard in a KW amplifier. Bud, W2RU _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Conte
Once again I must disagree. What "will be of more interest to everyone" is to see their calls in print -- no matter how small their scores. I'm going to suggest to my Atlantic Division "able conteste
ARRL Board meeting coming up in a few days. If you feel (as I do) that contest line scores for *all* participants belong in the pages of QST, don't forget to e-mail your Division Director. Bud, W2RU
I don't operate SO2R, so I don't know how well this would work for "real" contesters, but I have a cardboard box that I place on top of the operating desk when I'm running stations. I only need to pl
Aw, c'mon, Jeff. You know better than that. Why do you think only 160/80/40 are only being used at night? Because there's no propagation during the day, that's why. You're assuming all non-contesters
Here's what I do: If I find a frequency I think is not in use, I send a single DIT. If that doesn't generate a response, I send DI-DIT DIT or "?", depending on my assessment of conditions. If that do
You've obviously never tried to use LotW or you wouldn't say that.... :-) Bud, W2RU _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.cont
No, of course not. ARRL has not required signal reports for DXCC confirmations for as long as I can remember. They used to do that -- for their own contests, at least. In fact, I was surprised to lea
I get in the state QSO parties primarily for the fun of chasing county multipliers -- maybe someday leading to a County Hunters certificate. As soon as I encountered my first "multi-state" QSO Party
Kelly, I don't disagree with the grumbles about the different values given QSO points on/in different continents. But distance-based scoring strikes me as MF- or VHF-oriented thinking. By contrast, w
Partly historical, partly the result of trying to schedule an event that spans a continent with a half-dozen time zones and trying to give everyone reasonable access to unpredictable multi-band HF pr
Not to those whose primary interest in watching the cluster is attaining a "clean sweep". Not sure that's a valid assumption for "most operators [legally] watching the cluster". While some percentage
I've been following this thread with interest and bemusement. Some CK years are, in fact, more difficult to copy through QRN, or to manually send properly, it's true. But then, so are some call signs
Kelly, you may be technically correct and "win" that battle here on this (contest-oriented) reflector, but everyone blindly following that advice will help contesters lose the more important war of p