"Since you mention lawyers, you lead to another potentially serious problem for the ARRL. In the legal world precedence is as important as anything, and the ARRL has already set a bad precedence. Ho
Call for Speakers I have a couple of slots available for speakers at the Dayton Hamvention Contest Forum, to be held Saturday, May 17, 2008. I am especially interested in talks relating to innovative
As K3LR said, keep an eye on the Official Hamvention site for updates. I have requested the usual Saturday afternoon time slot for the Contest Forum, and as far as I know, we will be at the Hara Aren
anyone I would venture it has the same issue that you have down here in rural Tennessee: it's outer nowhere. I'd like to add one additional point... Maine is taken. Sorry. 73, Doug K1DG Trustee, Lon
Actually, Morse was widely copied by machine in the early days, and old Samuel FB himself intended for a machine to do the dirty work. A solenoid with a pen connected was employed to print the dots a
N2IC/5 asked: I don't know about that, but I know Pete will be giving a talk about the Skimmer (with demo) at the Contest Forum at Dayton. If you have enjoyed the current discussions about Skimmer, r
Me, too. And for the record, this year, I neither gave out honest signal reports nor serial numbers in the correct format for every QSO even though the rules require it. But the Poisson d'Avril is M
Here is the final program for the Contest Forum, to be held in Room 1 at the Hara Arena on Saturday, May 17, 11:45 AM to 2:15 PM. Feel free to pass this along to your club email lists, newsletters, e
W6WRT replied to W7WHY: Ahem. Only if I say it. And I do, so I did. Again. N6TR even announced it at the Contest Dinner at Visalia, so it must be 100% true (in contrast to what N6TJ said about me the
Here's a little more detail on the Skimmer run at the KCDXC suite. It was the last run, after all the humans were done...especially the guys running the Skimmer. We were lucky it ran at all...I bough
The CQ WPX Contest is pleased to announce the addition of two new awards, effective with this year's contest. These are for the Tribander/Single Element (TB-WIRES) category (see www.cqwpx.com for det
Anything too "new" will confuse the casual participants. Stick with the conventional "NR?", "NR AGN?", or "NR 112 OK?" to ask for a fill, and a hand-sent, more-space-between-the-numbers repeat withou
Last week, John Crovelli, W2GD/P40W, was injured in a tower accident in Maine. He broke his back and pelvis, has had surgery to fix things up, and is expected to recover 100%. Rather than clutter up
Can anyone help? Tried the usual sources...QRZ.COM, List archives, Google...no luck. TU Doug K1DG _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com htt
I'm pretty sure that what Tree meant was "...reassure everyone that we will fix all the errors we find, but that does not mean ALL the errors in the process will be fixed." One cannot find errors th
Pete - I don't believe your uniques were removed... I think the algorithm is: Incorrect callsign: QSO removed, plus 1 additional QSO penalty Incorrect exchange: QSO removed, no additonal penalty Not-
And don't forget his follow-ups (immortalized in T-shirts): "Louder is better" and "Loudest is BEST". 73, Doug K1DG _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@
I call foul! Tom is using this list to subliminally promote his callsign, always asking "WHY?". Besides, it is DURING the CQWW that I hear 'WHY send 59903 and DURING the SS I hear 'WHY send stuff tha
Wow! What a pileup Randy generated! Thanks to all who stepped up to offer sponsorships for WPX CW plaques. There are only three left from the original list: - World 21 MHz - High score in Africa - US
Does anyone have the OFFICIAL dates for the 2009 Russian DX Contest? Some third-party sources (WA7BNM, SM3CER lists, etc.) say 14/15 March, others say 21/22 March. Thanks and 73, Doug K1DG __________