Maybe we are looking at this cost cutting the wrong way. Perhaps the ARRL sponsors too many contests and the answer should be to eliminate some of them. The concept of an EME contest is pretty cool -
Congratulations to the sponsors of the Russian DX Contest. They have a fantastic web site about the contest with rules, results, and records. I was impressed by several innovations to contest results
Thanks for the reminder - it was fun. I guess the guys in WI are not worried about Anthrax like CQ Magazine. There is no email log submissions address that I can find on the site. But there is a nice
Paul, No reason to apologize! You didn't do anything that hasn't been done for years. See VP2KC, CN8WW or almost any OH2BH operation... The problem, if there was one, had more to do with the zeal of
Looking for email contact with the following as quickly as possible to finish up the SS CW write-up: VA3UZ, W8MJ, KE3Q, AG9A, WD0T. Randy Thompson, K5ZD 11 Hollis Street, Uxbridge, MA 01569 USA E-mai
I am very happy there are people out there who want to become hams to provide local communication and "chase storms and parades." In terms of protecting the future of our hobby, they are doing a more
I will be in London (probably out near Heathrow) arriving Friday evening Aug 6 and leaving Sunday morning. Looking for any contesters who may want to engage in some idle chatter and elbow bending. Ra
A very interesting question. We have the same thing in the top USA results between K4ZW and KQ2M. K4ZW 7,583,034 3867 154 537 KQ2M/1 7,506,464 3864 157 579 If you look at the line score, you wonder h
There is a new release of the Super Check Partial database files available at http://www.k5zd.com/scp/ This set of files was based on 2,691,738 QSOs from 1,881 logs (data set contains 111,266 unique
Some interesting statistics from the recent super check partial database. The following list shows the most worked calls found in the 1881 logs that were used to create the master.dta file. This cove
They are running low power from Finland near the bottom of the solar cycle. I don't think there is much danger of this activity effecting the overall competition! Randy, K5ZD (VY2ZM this weekend - wi
Sorry John, but the rules require you to take a 30 or more minute off time. Not a 29 or 28 or 27 minute off time. If they allowed you to take shorter off times and then chop the extra minutes off the
I am very happy there are people out there who want to become hams to provide local communication and "chase storms and parades." In terms of protecting the future of our hobby, they are doing a more
I will be in London (probably out near Heathrow) arriving Friday evening Aug 6 and leaving Sunday morning. Looking for any contesters who may want to engage in some idle chatter and elbow bending. Ra
A very interesting question. We have the same thing in the top USA results between K4ZW and KQ2M. K4ZW 7,583,034 3867 154 537 KQ2M/1 7,506,464 3864 157 579 If you look at the line score, you wonder h
Hello everyone, Looking for logs from the following contests as input to the next set of super check partial database files. Send me the same Cabrillo format log that you submitted to the contest spo
When you get a speeding ticket, you often pay a fine. That is the monetary version of 3 QSO penalty... Plus, you often have your car insurance rates increase. An additional penalty (that often hurts
Looking around the Tonight Show web site, they have a feedback form that pops up an email address of tonightshow@nbc.com . Randy, K5ZD _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest maili
There is a new release of the Super Check Partial database files available at http://www.k5zd.com/scp/ This set of files was based on 2,620,961 QSOs from 1,821 logs (data set contains 111,005 unique