I received this dispatch from Prasad - it will be great to have an HQ station active from India! Be sure your logging software is up-to-date and will recognize AT as India and not Antarctic. 73, Ward
Who keeps an HQ station list for the upcoming IARU HF Championship? ng3k.com has an IARU HF Championship section in the Announced DXpeditions, but is there a focused list on IARU HQ stations? 73, War
Murray VE7HA/7J1AQH sent me a link to this nice FD video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9dgQCg3Upk, produced by Thida HS1ASC and the gang at the KH6J field day site this year. Looks pretty swell,
Thanks to the ARRL Web guys for pushing everything else to the back burner for a day to finish converting and formatting the DX Phone results - www.arrl.org/contest/results. (It's not easy maintainin
The latest issue of the Contest Update newsletter (www.arrl.org/contest/update) notes the shifting of the 2009 CQ WW 160 SSB to Feb 27-Mar 1st, but omits the crucial "160". CQ WW SSB will run on the
Dave, You are quite correct in that past years power was occasionally mentioned in the writeups for single-band results. This year, however, the fraction of single-band logs for which a power was in
Something new will be added to the Web versions of the Sweepstakes writeups this year - a Soapbox contest! Each of the SS writeup authors - Steve N2IC and Kelly VE4XT - will go through the ARRL Soapb
No, it is NOT a "handicap" - it is the required exchange. In order to play in this contest you have to make a required sequence of noises according to the contest rules. Period. If you don't make th
That's why you're such a good programmer :-) Your definition is incomplete. Handicaps are applied unequally to all competitors with the goal of producing an equalized competitive environment. Requir
Along with the ARRL Soapbox (www.arrl.org/contest/soapbox) forum for stories and photos - as long as you like - some of the contest writeups are starting to include Regional Analysis by local author
If that call sounds familiar, it should - Gary W7FG was the owner of Vintage Manuals (http://www.vintagemanuals.com) and W7FG Antennas. If you needed a manual, Gary had it. No, he had several copies
Hi folks, After several years of doing the West Gulf Division's Regional Writeup for the ARRL DX Phone results, George K5TR has had to withdraw this year. So, I'm looking for a volunteer to write a f
Soliciting QSOs has to be done "by amateur means" (thus eliminating solicitation via the Internet) and on the bands allowed for the contest (which for HF contests, eliminates solicitation on VHF/UHF
Time-slicing - the rapid, synchronized gating of more than one transmitted signal with different carrier frequencies - is not legal under the FCC's spurious signal limits. Gating modulates the CW si
snip snip And so why is all this vitriol NOT directed towards the 'suspects' who brought the sponsors to this unpleasant state of affairs? Surely CQ WW is not doing this because they enjoy the thoug
Such a subject is sure to generate some discussion :-) The specific subject is "which state QSO party is the oldest?" In the last issue of the Contest Update (www.arrl.org/contest/update) I printed t
The Contest Update is not the place for contest operating announcements. DO NOT send me any announcements of operations. Perhaps a Web page will be cobbled up similar to 3830 on which one can announ
The moderator has politely (and correctly) requested that we not use cq-contest as the place to post our operation registrations. There may be some other mechanism in the works, so let's all open a c
There have been several suggestions for on-the-air actions to remember the four ops lost on their way to C6APR yesterday. Perhaps a moment of radio silence - at the beginning of the contest or perhap
Another point not yet mentioned with regards to self-spotting is that most contests specifically limit contest activity to certain bands. Self-spotting is considered a solicitation for contacts. For