How about spotting the emergency frequency with some readily recognized identifier - e.g., "3815.0 QRRR". Do this from stations (even fake ones) from all sorts of locations so the spot gets through m
Thanks David - you said it better than I did. Contesting hasn't changed fundamentally for a long time. That isn't necessarily bad. There are lots of classic games that have endured for decades or cen
Interesting data. I wonder what it would look like for the whole data set including people who don't submit logs. I suspect it would be even more skewed toward smaller hours. Actually, I think there'
Syl - thanks, very interesting survey and comments! Thanks for the pointer. I think that survey data and comments, although valid, probably don't reflect the views or predict the behavior of all thos
For the last 4 years I've been contesting, so I guess I'm still a newbie even though I got licensed as K3FIV in 1963. There's a lot of newbies in my neighborhood - the ones with the 2x3 callsigns who
I suspect it's people who got their license while a teenager, and are now retired, but still around, and have the time to contest. Interesting data would be how that "bubble" of activity changes from