I'm hesitant. So much of being a successful contester is knowing when to go get the hard double mult on 40, or when to put which radio on which band, etc. Do we really want to make that all transpare
I totally agree, Bill. I was responding to a post that seemed to contemplate total disclosure -- "XX just moved to 40, so he must be looking for one of his famous skew path Asian mults ..." Yes, of c
Regarding real-time propagation information, I have just downloaded Ionoprobe by VE3NEA (www.dxatlas.com). It is an extremely neat little shareware app that sits in the system tray and monitors propa
While we're at it, let's get serious about revising this contest to stimulate more activity. Make mults one per band rather than overall. Wouldn't the first 5-band or 6-band sweep be something? Allow
N1MM Logger can be navigated very well without a mouse, and has an Enter Sends Message (ESM) mode that does TR one better. Awesome. 73, Pete N4ZR At 01:24 AM 11/23/2004, k5zm wrote: By and large, DOS
Well, I guess where you stand depends on where you sit. For most of us on the east coast, geography in SS is a major disadvantage compared with you guys in the center of our respective countries (Kel
I totally agree. My SO 1.5R station consists of a TS-930 and an HF9V vertical for the second radio. It works surprisingly well and, as Bill says, teaches you how to do this stuff. 73, Pete At 07:42 P
I have not been able to get either to run properly under XP, but I have not tried "dosbox." 73, Pete N4ZR At 01:07 AM 11/28/2004, K5ZM wrote: For that matter, has anyone had any experiences with PED
Why should anyone reply to a message posted under a synonym? Radiosporting, indeed... takes me back. 73, Pete N4ZR At 07:35 PM 11/29/2004, Joe Contester wrote: Please reply direct, off-list. Your opi
These postings from Joe Contester raise this point; should it not be standard practice that people posting to cq-contest sign either their call-signs or their real names? It seems to me that signing
At 10:20 AM 11/30/2004, Russell Hill wrote: I would like to suggest this thread consider something else--keeping the casual operator in the contest. I have read many comments about the necessity to h
I acknowledge that ARRL would be "letting down their guard" to some extent if they allowed block transfers of matched CQWW QSOs, but at some point in any such exercise I think you have to ask how muc
At 12:03 PM 11/30/2004, K0HB wrote: ... I don't think any statistically-significant fraction of nubby-newcomers (that's who we're looking for here) gets on the air for their first (or second or third
At 12:41 PM 11/30/2004, Warren C. Stankiewicz wrote: I've got to disagree with Hans on this one. The only measurable metric on activity is how many logs are submitted. Anything else ("...gee, there w
_________________________________________________________ The last time I checked, the ARRL would not accept QSLs from eQSL, even though the QSO was confirmed at both ends. They might change their at
In response to Ken's skepticism, I just took a quick look at some stats. I used the ARRL numbers because they were readily available on-line. These may not be 100 percent accurate, because in a coupl
Amusing ... there has been a lot of speculation off the reflector that, given your pseudonym, you probably were someone else. Anyway, I stand by my point -- one shouldn't have to search for IP addres
More data: From Bob Cox in February 2002 -- "...about 30,000 active in the CQ WW SSB and about 22,000 in the CW leg +/-. There are ~97,000 different calls or "somethings" in the SSB database for exam
At 03:58 PM 12/5/2004, Eric Hilding wrote: [SIGH...] While I admire those who take on the challenge of 5w in a DX contest (or any other NON-QRP-Specific) event, these are my observations (and FRUSTRA
It might be worth noting that the software has only been out a month or two, and he has already revised it once and addressed a number of user issues. This guy is some programmer. 73, Pete N4ZR At 05