Bob, Sorry mate doesn't fly. Except perhaps the impatient incompetent operator explanation. I get Call and ? on both phone and cw when I am IDing after every contact and running at over two QSO's per
I'm back so you can start talking about me again! VK5GN is dead long live VK7GN ( with antennas badly in need of some work!). One thing missing in the discussion about technologies effect on contesti
The very best QRP operators are the ones that are only exposed as QRP when the QSL arrives with "Pse QSL using 1watt here!". During the contest they were "just" another contact. I have noted over the
If you have been here a while you will have seen various missives from me raising the undesirable effects that worldwide packet spotting is having on contesting. This is a new one. I was working in t
A number of local contests here in VK/ZL have taken the view that reports are irrelevant and we should just send serial numbers. I recently received a request to upload a local contest log to LOTW as
I have been amazed at how long the parsing of words in contest rules could go on before someone raised the issue of ethics, morality and the spirit of game. Thanks Shelby! There will always be shades
Scott (NE1RD) claims that more categories increase participation. I have been in this game of radio contesting for 40 years and have seen many changes to categories etc and they all claim they are go
I remain unconvinced by the arguments that the report should be left out. This has been true in some of our domestic contests here in VK for some years now. Remembrance Day contest is the biggest VK