HI all: Check out the trophies for the Stew Perry. There is DUPE! Both W7EW and K7FL are (individually) sponsoring a plaque for: Biggest score, 100 S+P%. By the way, does S+P have anything to do with
Dr Dx was like sitting down at a real radio and actually tuning the bands during a contest and working guys. Other have explained this here, but seems that the "alternatives" being offered are not ju
NN3W is right on target. The BEST (most impressive) feature for me was that it "knew" propagation (Rich said this). It was just so cool to work EU from "NJ" on the high bands as the "sun rose" and si
I vote for single op. There was at least one discussion like this years ago. The op's amp blew up and his buddy or friends came over and swapped out the amp while the "op" kept operating. Did swappin
Hi all, I was just watching something on TV about the assassination of Lincoln and noted that at one point in the show, the address (which I can't remember exactly) was (say) "first and main," but it
Thanks Barry, but then are we to assume to the documentation that showed "first and main" street address using "ES" was documentation made by a Morse operator? Seems like a stretch, but I guess anyth
As a CQWW Contest Committee member "forever" and being a "numbers guy, here is my approach to what little information we have read about here. And I'm an ARRL member since 1966, except for 1 year. An
Timo sed: I don't understand this at all as same time this contest has In other words, if.... It is becoming increasingly more difficult to draw the line between assisted and unassisted operations as
Back in 2015, Randy K5ZD did a survey. I didn't look up the link from back then. Maybe someone can find it. Anyhow, one of the survey questions was basically, Why do you operate in the contest. Here
NOTE THAT: EU and NA show opposite responses for the Yes/No section Also: opinions may have changed in the last 5 years. de Doug KR2Q QTH Combine SO+SOA Count of Response % of Response Africa don't
NORTH AMERICAN ONLY Type of operation Your reaction Count % Serious competitor Operate the same 288 70.9% Operate less 98 24.1% Operate more 19 4.7% no response 1 0.2% Total 406 27.5% Part time/best
this is the whole world combined. I actually sent this one first (before NA only), but I sent it to the wrong address. K5ZD sure asked good questions back then. Good job Randy. Enjoy de Doug KR2Q Typ
Jeff notes that RTTY WPX has no separate unassisted category. Perhaps (maybe?) the answer is in the rules. Look at WPX Rule IX.2 (QSO alerting...) definition SNIP The use of any technology that provi
I logged (N1MM) AZ1A. That worked fine. After I did he cab file export, I modified (edited) the call back to what was sent over the air (back to AZ1A/X). So N1MM scored it correctly and CQ got the fi
Well, JB says he is bored on the west coast. That it is only GREAT if you happen to be close to the Atlantic basin. All you have to do is look at the annual stats for the number of entrants to know t
You know, if you "can't win it all," you can still have fun competing in your own area. https://www.cqww.com/plaques/ There are sponsored plaques for USA zone 3 on both SSB and CW. Somebody has been
"Those who make the rules tailor them to benefit themselves." Although the above quote was in reference to IARU, it has also been tagged to the CQWW by the same author. The truth is, apparently, the
Anyone have any experience with http://www.shireeninc.com Thoughts/comments/other suggestions? Thanks de Doug KR2Q _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@c
Gosh...I think we have all experienced this in every contest for as long as we have been contesting...which for some of us is a LONG time! I think it's just "human nature" kicking in or folks not run
Interesting comments....but really, we almost measuring noise. I went to the WPX CW logs received page, copied & pasted into excel and played around. See below. The 2nd column from the right (% of lo