Good day, everyone: For CW and SSB contests, I believe there are two fundamental questions behind the ceaseless debates about rules and merging of the categories. I believe if we could answer these q
Good day: I think that the issue of cheating in single operator categories by using "Assistance" should not a driver for determining the future of competitive radiosport. I think the current proposal
Hi Doug: There are many forms of cheating available to entrants in the single operator categories that are very difficult or impossible for contest sponsors to detect. Unclaimed "Assistance" is one.
Hi Doug: The ARRL recently created Single Operator Unlimited categories in many of their contests. These were split from Multi-Single, not Single Operator. 73, Mark, KD4D The subject I used is from R
Good day, Martin: It makes sense to keep the separation between single operator and single operator Assisted/Unlimited because many of us believe the skill involved in finding stations to work withou
Hi Martin: We will continue to strongly disagree about what is good for our sport and our hobby! One I think we both love. :-) Your arguments support eliminating power categories and single operator
Good day, Gilles: I am not ignorant of operating with packet, RBN, skimmer, etc.. I am involved in competitive multi-ops and use all of these tools regularly. My objection to eliminating single opera
Hi Yuri: You are proposing a significant rule change. Some of us believe that software within the station, providing the same information as the packet cluster (other operators and/or remote software
Hi Yuri: Yes, that is part of the issue - the station to station communication part. It does not, however, take into account the operator skill and fun involved in finding stations to work - in fact,
Hi Al: I just use "TEST KD4D KD4D" and use escape to skip the second callsign if the rate is decent. Works fine with the skimmer. "CQ TEST" is longer and unnecessary.... Get on sometime, monitor the
Hi Rudy: Let's give DARA and the Hamvention a chance. I'm making plans to attend Dayton Hamvention 2017 - I certainly won't miss the worn out Hara facility. The Greene County Fairgrounds and Event Ce
Hi Barry: I never sign /3 in WAE for the reasons you cite. Since you're just playing around, you could pass out the "0" multiplier if you wanted. I think your analysis of the pros and cons is spot on
This would mak a dull video game. I'm with Ken on this...radio waves, stations, people, and the real world are what make the game interesting! 73, Mark, KD4D -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 M
Hi Jim: Thanks for the late QSO! We were a M/2 or I would probably have taken the last hour as off-time. 73, Mark, KD4D Hi Carol, This may be a bad decision -- here on the west coast, we often can't
Hi Doug: Yes. I sent a question to the contest organizer earlier today about this same issue after I received the third request. Nice score BTW! :-) 73, Maek, KD4D -- Original Message -- From: "Doug
Yes, it COULD be done. But, some us still like to play this game on the radio - I don"t want to deal with the internet as a single operator! There should continue to be room in our sport for a game p
So, now participants use the internet to confirm QSOs diring the contest? Isn"t using e-mail or chat rooms to perform this function against the rules? Why would using a centralized server to do the s
This has the additional advantage of enabling instant log checking and calculation of final scores. Any scoring scheme involving irrational numbers is a winner. :-) I LIKE IT! 73, Mark, KD4D ________
Joel at the RF Connection in Gaithersburg, MD, made me some cables for a MicroHam controller. The cost was very reasonable. 73, Mark, KD4D -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse
I enjoy single operator categories and do not want to see them eliminated. In at least many contests, the Assisted/Unlimited classes evolved from MULTI-OPERATOR categories - this is true of many of t