Hi Tack, contesters usually meet at the BCC/RRDXA/WRTC boot at A1-170. Besides this there will be the Contest forum Saturday 12 o'clock in hall A2, room 1, where the 2 hour program is in English lang
Jim, Back in the day when you and I were first licensed, we mailed QSLs as postcards with 2 cent stamps. I sent you a card, you sent me one. We each paid for our own stamp. A QSL was considered "the
Jim, If you think the Bureau system is "superb" you probably don't use it. I do since I became a radio amateur some 26 years ago, that's why I am of the opinion! But maybe it's in better general use
Am 10.08.2015 um 04:30 schrieb Jim Brown: If RSGB or DARC put up a system like LOTW, I would happily upload my log to it. Or, even better, encourage ARRL to coordinate theirs with LOTW. Well, DARC's
Charles, American bosses of American contests show little understanding nor care for the DX entries. Interesting viewpoint taking into account they just asked YOU for YOUR opinion on the topic of uni
rule. Are you saying your line-out is having different signals than you headphone connector, Mark? 73, Olli - DH8BQA _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contes
+1 Olli Contest, DX & radio projects: http://www.dh8bqa.de Am 11.10.2015 um 03:38 schrieb VK4TS Trent Sampson: I am surprised that N1MM have not reintroduced their own integrated recorder. Understand
However, I've seen some weird things happening during the last two qualifying runs. Things like guys jumping from one category to another to get more points than their friends make no good to our hob
Jeff & all, can somebody help me, please? Seems I just don't get it ... How do you know how they operated? Have you been there? Did you ask them? How do you know if their 3830 report has not been wro
Jorge, and this is ok for you? Yes as it is perfectly compliant with the rules (... you may use ... not ... you must use ... spotting assistance) thus nothing wrong with it. I would even applaud them
Hi Fabio, check the probable The point is: it *IS* compliant with the rules! So what exactly should the software check? ;-) 73, Olli - DH8BQA _______________________________________________ CQ-Contes
Hi Ed, I think it should be an overlay to the "normal" M/S. Isn't this what's already in "normal" M/S? Of course depending on contest their might be additional limitations in "normal" M/S like number
One of the best posts in quite a while, Franki. TU :-) 73, Olli Contest, DX & radio projects: http://www.dh8bqa.de Am 09.03.2016 um 20:56 schrieb Franki ON5ZO: It would be interesting if a major ssb
ROTFL ... great, Doug! ;-) 73, Olli - DH8BQA Contest, DX & radio projects: http://www.dh8bqa.de Am 01.04.2016 um 15:18 schrieb Doug Grant: MAJOR CHANGES COMING TO POISSON DAVRIL CONTEST New overlay c
Rag, Scoreboard like this will be more common to the youngsters, and must realize it new generation and innovation of contesting. Most important is have fun, think of future hams to get involved in c
Same question/request goes to the log checkers! Or how else would such a thing happen? ;-) ** Incorrect Exchange Information ** 21045 CW 2015-11-29 1622 DH8BQA 14 W9IL 5 correct 4 This is the corresp
Randy, there was some tongue in cheek intended below. I apologize if it might not have been clear enough below due to possible language trouble (chosen wrong words?). I appreciate all the work you an
Pete, I'm in the same boat as Jim. Single op means just that and I don't think we should blur the lines with assisted, 2 radios, etc. What do you mean by "blur the lines with 2 radios"? Thought SO2R
Consider if a lonely Samoan native ham, running a simple rig into a small dipole wants to make some contacts in a DX contest. Since he is rare DX, and even if he didn't call CQ, he would get spotted
Nobody talked about DQs here, Ron, you're reading to much into it. What we are showing is how much getting spotted makes a difference! Everybody who once experienced a packet pileup knows how much it