As a young student of economy I learned a bit of a modern capitalistic way of making business, and guys in ARRL/CQ Mag you doing it all wrong. Contesting is soooooooo popular and there are bunches of
Young contesters are back in action! After 1st WWYC Meeting held in Croatia in July 2004 WWYCers are back for more. This year from 18th to 22nd August many young contesters will meet in Darlowo, Pola
European Sprint Contest - Spring CW - April 16, 2005 -- October 2004 brought me another challange in the world of amateur radio. I was surprised and honored when EU Sprint guys invited me to replace
Hello! This email is to invite all contesters to have a go in the European Sprint contests 2005. The phone contest is on Saturday 9th April and the CW leg is the following Saturday, 16th April. If yo
This morning when I checked our hamradio portal I saw a sad topic 9A5I SK. Since Ivo, 9A5I was one of the most active contesters and a big award chaser in our region I feel this like another big loss
Hello dear contest friends, as many of you heard, been watching or even participating WWYC Club activities during the last 5 years (yes, we are celebrating 5 years already); one of our future project
Hello fellow contesters, World Wide Young Contesters are opening their first ever official meeting, with about 40 young contesters from over 10 countries; tomorrow, Wednesday - 21st July, 15:00z in C
9A can go from 7.100 to 7.200 for a long time now! I'm also thinking of how useful this new area given to us is. I'll probably try to CQ for USA QSOs for a while just a bit above 7.100 and try to see
Like somebody mentioned before using a DX cluster and claiming unassisted is nothing compared to cheating on other stuff - excessive power and so on. I hope that somewhere in the near future we will
Anyone ever counted the average personal participation in a CQWW? If it's below 24h I'd say this might work, but if it's over 24 hours I'm not really sure it would expand the activity. A lot of peopl
Hey oldies, if someone is interested in reading what young contesters are doing you're invited to read World Wide Young Contesters Newsletter! We just started it out so would be nice to hear some imp
You should remember the time when they said The Beatles will ruin the world?! Is it that the cluster will ruin the contesting?! Quttin' a contest for not being your way?! Are you really a contester?!
I dont think the only benefit from the cluster is receiving the informations. What about those that dont use/read cluster but are regulary spotted and getting pile ups because of it?! They are not di
Guys, you started to talk like only kids are using cluster and new technologies. I still dont have a need to change into WriteLog and enjoy working the good old CT. One of my favorite types of contes
Who would buy CQ Magazine if they'd publish scores online?! Shame for contesters to let this going on for years now... are we really that lame that we have to pay to see our hard work?! after If some
Hello dear contesters, Croatian CW Contest 2003 is sheduled for this weekend. What can you find out about this contest? - Rules for this small lovely contest on: http://www.qsl.net/ctc/9a%20cw%20cont
You know Vlad, you are right. In East Europe MOST of the active contesters run good stations, having internet, and probably save some additional money for the DXpeditions. Why do we have to worry ab
Hi all, I would just like to put out some quotes/links that show us Al's tryings to help contesting. I dont think it's only cheating issues that bothered Al. If you read this Al, I sure do hope to lo
I vote for 48 hours contesting since we have only few such contests a year. I think there was a poll about this years ago?! Maybe time to repeat it and see if some changes happened since? I think it'
Tom, NI1N said it much better then I did: "Catering to the older people seems counter-productive to attracting younger ones." If we will make everything for OM then my conclusion at age 22 is that in