"Can't hear them," "Where are they," "Why are they working xxx and not me?" comments are all a major PITA. If it is something relatively rare and folks have set alarms on their terminal software, fla
Some people are "fortunate" to be able to use their shacks for other things (like "real" work) and can't be tuning the bands constantly ... or like to be able to spend time with a family and still kn
Not hardly ... CQWW RTTY already includes 1 point for "own country QSOs" and multipliers for each US State/VE Province. That hardly discourages participation. In my opinion, it increases participatio
Bill, the solution is to adopt the CQWW RTTY scoring rules. In CQWW RTTY, "own country QSOs" are worth one point. In addition US States and VE Provinces are multipliers. Those changes would put US st
Dale, If you want to improve the number of participants in a contest like CQWW, the scoring system for US stations absolutely needs to be fixed. It can be completely demoralizing for a station in the
With soundcards and software (MixW, MMTTY, WinWarbler, etc.) that offer "Contest Modes" I will bet that participation levels in CQWW RTTY will be very close to those of CQWW CW within five years. To
The zero point rule tends to concentrate SOAB operations in areas that do not have to deal with the zero point issue (EU, W1, W2, W3). In those places with large numbers of potential zero point Qs, y
This problem is unique to Yaesu radios and very fast multi-processor (dual core and hyperthreding) systems due. N1MM released the latest update (5.11.12) yesterday that includes a change in polling f
Here is an interesting analysis of Logbook of the World participation by key ARRL officers and Directors done by AB5K. It is a sad commentary to see several well-known and active amateurs who can't e
RTTY ops, I need to update my post on ARRL Officials that do not use the LOTW. It turns out that Central Director: George R. Isely, W9GIG does use the LOTW and is listed in the HB9BZA LOTW user list.
No - a Rhombic is either a two element (stacked "V" beams) or four element (an array of 4 long wires) antenna depending on how classify it. 73, ... Joe, W4TV _________________________________________
I would hope that those who value amateur radio would seek to have much of the MF/HF allocations treated as international parks. That is they remain as a preserve, away from high data rate, automated