Greg What is grid circlings point value? Well let me try to explain it in our region. Right now you sometimes work me on all my bands in DN06/07 and CN 96/97 on usually a Sunday morning of a contest
I will take it that you are starting out in the rover arena. During my first rover run I used a dual band arrow yagi. I just turned the yagi 90 degrees when I switched bands. This antenna breaks down
don't forget the qsos will count for the grid exploration program if you get a qsl card from that rusty keyer. Also, note that cn76 wil be added to oregon, it was thought to be inacessable (in oregon
We will be having a no host lunch at Buster's BBQ near HRO in tigard on January 10th. for those interested in ssb work or in the society, or interested in the society, and anyone else bold enough to
What does it accomplish when a bunch of hams borrow one of 8 millionaires lunch box stations and activate the bands by repetitively contacting each other? The ARRL uses contests to create activity to
VHF Marathon Purpose: To offer a unique contest that encourages more band utilization and operator practice with various modes on VHF+ frequencies. The goal is to work as many stations as possible vi
Ok if Wayne is such a great guy to the ham community, why doesnt he rent, lease or just plain lend his million dollar base station to newbies to win the ARRL HF sweepstakes. Oh I know why. He cant po
Its time for the ARRL to do some soul searching here. A group effort of several stations working themselves for the overwhelming majority is a selfish act. It is orchestrated by a selfish person. Its
The true issue is that there is two types of roving. that being team efforts and non team efforts. Team efforts generate huge scores but focus on the core group of the team to generate QSOs and multi
Answer to wb8smf Imagine a chess board with 8 cars on it. Each square on the board is a grid square and represents 10 potential multipliers. 8 cars represent 70 different contacts per grid square com
One other potential change might work. Unless a station is an Unlimited Rover, no more than 10 percent of a roving stations rover to rover contacts will have their QSO points counted. All rover to ro
The 20 percent rule has issues. Some people would delete contacts to avoid the 20 percent rule and the other party would get busted on the log checker. But it could be tweeked. If the rule read that
Mark Adams, PE wrote:> Calling all rovers! If rover-rover contacts are worth ZERO points, how > many of you will continue to rove? Yes if nothing else works then go to this extreme. Roving was intend
Thank you for posting the rule change submission. May I make the suggestion that you consider what I proposed so that honest rovers can count contacts. IE if I reached my 30 limit am I to ignore a ne
I suppose all contacts over 30 could be sent in a check log as to not to punish a rover who has less than 30 vs a rover who has more than 30 contacts. ________________________________________________
I re-read it and I was wrong. There is no problem there. In my excitement I read it too fast. This seems to be a pretty good compromise with the combination of the 2 rules. I will dub this the 30-50
N5AC wrote: If Wayne and his friends are having funand it's not messing with the scores/rank of those doing what we mightconsider more traditional roving, what's the problem? It is messing with the r
I propose parallel contests to see how they work. I propose the formation of a contesting club to administer the parallel awards in Parallel contests with the ARRL activities. Once formed the club wi
This is a interesting way of expanding spectrum http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16591-twisted-radio-beams-could-untangle-the-airwaves.html ______________________________________________________
A snip from paul, A guy I really do like, becuase he usually makes me think. "A solution for achieving high esteem: If you find that you probably won't win, Drop back and consider just having fun by