Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:04:28 -0600
Maybe in addition to someone writing an excellent rebuttal to the "contest free zone" nonsense, we also need someone to write an article for QST aimed at the general HF audience about operating phone
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:08:00 -0600
... I totally disagree with this. Many DX stations arrogantly feel that they can make _many_ QSOs in a row without giving out their callsign. A lot of them, I am sure, are relying upon the packet net
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:15:05 -0600
Maybe I wasn't clear in my assertion that calling and asking for a callsign is the right thing for a contester to do when faced with a non-IDing station. What I have in mind is something like the fol
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:28:46 -0600
The contest score databases for 2002 and 2003 are online for ARRL members. Correlating callsigns with callbook info might give rough demographic analysis. It's just there waiting for someone to do it
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:49:45 -0600
What, exactly, compels a station to spot a contest DXpedition 67 times in 48 hours? What should I conclude about the fact that six out of seven of the contest DXpedition operators are members of the
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:01:09 -0600
The ARRL Programs and Services Committee VHF-UHF Contest and Awards Subcommittee has recently published several proposed rules changes for ARRL VHF/UHF contests. If you are an ARRL member or contest
Yes, both of these changes in the ARRL Club Competition rules came about after the article was written, but before it was printed. Suppose that the YCCC decided, for the ARRL International DX Contest
So, when you call "CQ" via a Beaconet AX.25 datagram, will you ever complete a two-way QSO on the same frequency using AX.25? Or is the Beaconet "CQ" really always intended to solicit a QSO that will
http://www.msnbc.com/news/868607.asp -- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R Department of the Computer Sc
I think it is directly comparable. In the two meter simplex FM contest that WN3VAW began this discussion with, a club station is suspected of fielding several mobile stations to visit as many multipl
I've drawn some maps of U.S. contestants in the 2002 ARRL International DX Contest, CW: http://www.wm5r.org/maps/ The mapping software I used only does the U.S., unfortunately - I'm not intentionally
I now have EVEN BETTER maps of U.S. contestants in the 2002 ARRL International DX Contest, CW, on the web: http://www.wm5r.org/maps/ There was a bug in the ZIP to lat/lon conversion that caused those
I have made a few more maps based upon data from the ARRL online contest results site. My maps are located at: http://www.wm5r.org/maps/ I now have maps made from the most recent data available for:
I cannot recall ever doing a serious high power phone contest effort from W5 when I _didn't_ have at least one incidence of someone trying to jam me. It happens every contest. -- -- Kenneth E. Harker
I recently rebuilt a computer for use in my ham shack, and set out intentionally to replace the hard disk and power supply (which both had to be replaced anyway) with new units that were as quiet as
I agree. I've only barely dabbled in SO2R myself, and I think the quoted paragraph is *very* misleading if both receivers mute on transmit. The whole point of having a second radio is to be able to l
I'm not necessarily convinced that this is a good idea. In WRTC 2002, the teams were effectively anonymous. Members of a contest club or a small country with a team in WRTC might have known that "the
I can think of several such amateur sports: * orienteering (http://www.orienteering.org/) * foxhunting and ARDF (http://www.homingin.com/) * fishing tournaments * etc. -- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Cl
True. If showing this information is of interest and somehow people use it to affect the fairness of the competition, this is good...? The DX cluster system probably got a lot of people more interest
So... self-spotting is bad, but it's not as bad some other forms of cheating, so we should....? what? Where are you going with this? In many contests, winners can be determined by very few QSOs or mu