I stand corrected! From "Introducing Logbook of the World": As stated in LoTW's Mission and Objectives, membership in the ARRL is not a requirement. My excuse is that I've been an ARRL life member si
I have read hundreds of books on my Kindle, all of them history, biography, science, etc. That is, primarily words. Kindles are pretty much unusable for photos and drawings. Occasionally, a book I'm
K1TN --Hi In the rules of IARU HF Championship this paragraph is mentioned: "8.2. To qualify as the special multiplier, Administrative Council and Regional Executive Committee stations must only be o
I did the calculation! The "ham center of population" appears to be a grain silo in East Jesus, Nebraska. K1TN/4 _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@co
There are hundreds of great operators worldwide who have never participated in WRTC. WRTC is not so much a competition as a club. "I would not want to belong to a club that would have me as a member.
Call CQ. Too many people just "search and pounce" in contests. Kind of like on this reflector, where there are supposedly 1500 "subscribers" but only a couple dozen who post anything. K1TN __________
Contesters are human? Who knew? -- K1TN I'm not in favor of inspectors, mostly because I don't think they are at all practical. But the problem isn't going to go away ... it's human nature to cheat.
"Phase 3: Computer completes QSO & wins many contests in my name. GUYS! Just kiddin!" -- K4OAQ At that point you have no name, just a number, you are not a free man. You are just a carbon-based "modu
I don't know if every ARRL member got the e-mail below. I presume so. I went to the link and the process could not be easier. I carefully read the letter provided by ARRL and it looked fine to me, so
"I find this rule stupifying. Why do we bother sending the Zone at all? This reinforces what I've long felt about CQWW -- that it's the dumbest contest going. ALL you have to copy is the other statio
I suppose you could go through a long Q and A on SSB but surely not on CW. Then again, there really aren't many, or any, "casual" or uninformed (as to the exchange) ops on CW. -- K1TN -- Based on my
Doing away with power categories would solve this problem. Just list everybody in order by score in the contest results and that's that. The ARRL International DX Contest did NOT have an LP category
What's in a name? 40 years ago this week a very large group of us were applying to the FCC for the long-awaited "preferred Extra Class call signs." The FCC opened the gate on January 1, 1977. Decisio
If "the logging programs will adjust your exchange,"then that makes you "assisted." Yes?K1TN-->Steve don't worry about it, the logging programs will adjust the exchange. Thanks for operating and repr
The posting says "We already have assigned three of five sponsored teams." But the WRTC 2018 web site only lists one sponsored team. K1TN _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest ma
I don't operate "assisted" and have never made a spot. In last year's Florida QSO Party, after a few mostly unproductive CQs on 15 Meters, I did something I've never done before -- I asked someone wh
"Keeping suspicions private is a good thing. The more the CC reveals, the more info cheaters have to stay one step ahead and circumvent the ules." -- W2UP Better to let nine guilty people go free tha
Finally! Some sanity on this reflector. And it comes from people living where everything is upside down. Jim K1TN _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@co
See "Packet With a Purpose," by James D. Cain, K1TN, QST, August 1990, page 54.-- K1TN--*/"The clusters were created for DXing not contesting."/* This statement is absolutely, 100% wrong. The origina
The latest ARRL Contest Update newsletter summarized some 3830 ARRL June VHF Contest comments as follows: "In the soapbox comments from the most recent June ARRL VHF Contest many stations were report