An interesting question - impacted by the breadth of the subbands allocated each license class. First, spots above 3.850 are congested with both pig farmers and nets. With an extra 150 KHz of room fo
Hello from Istambul! After 13 hours of flying and being sick yesterday, I finally got a chance to look at some contest-related email. Wow. I've received not one, not two, not three, but four emails a
One interesting observation that I've made is that folks are definately using QRZ.com during the contests to check contacts - either an automatic feature or a backup check. Before the NAQP, my QRZ.co
They sold out a couple weeks ago, although periodically you might find an open room if you book on their website and use the hamvention group code - H07. The Double Tree around the corner still has r
Doctor DX. GREAT program. I wish that somebody would update that program for the Windows environment. _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com
Actually, as #1 is concerned, i think things are not as bleak as you think. The top scoring U.S. team from this year's WRTC features one guy who is 35 (N2NL) and one guy who is 27 (N6MJ) - give or ta
Exactly Pete. The C-64 wasn't that heavy on ram, yet it is the only program where you could actually hook up your bencher paddle, go from 40 to 20 "as the sun rose", tune the band work QRS ops on the
6 percent of all logs. Does that include single band entries who obviously cannot do 24 hours? You can't operate on 160 for 24 hours. Same with 10 right now. I guess theoretically you could, but you'
Well, maybe and maybe not. I looked at the 2002 CQWW phone results and ONE all-band stateside single op went all 48 - K4ZW. KQ2M, N9RV, WB9Z, K3ZO, and K3CR did not. The DX operations may likely have
I was in a similar situation this past weekend - but from the reverse direction. I initially entered as a single band 40 meter entry. 40 meters was not so hot, and not less than 3 or 4 times I consid
Gawd....Here goes again. So, W4s in Virginia are equal to W5s in New Mexico??? I'm not seeing that one. 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest
It was really wierd. I too called around 3.690 and the rates were horrible - 1.5 a minute tops. I was having more success picking off packets spots. This is the first real DX test utilizing the new s
My question is whether this gives implied consent to remote operation from locations other than the DXCC entity where the operator is physically located? The DXCC awards desk certainly doesn't think
That's pretty much the reason why I asked. If contacts for QSO credit in contests are based on DXCC countries, wouldn't regular DXCC rules apply as to whether the station is based "in" the country? 7
That's pretty much what I had thought about. Obviously for county contests, unless you;re a rover, the antennas/radios/etc would have to be all in the same county. I guess the one concern might be th
The issue of D.C. versus indian reservations is old. While there are similarities, there are several differences that lessen the independence of th reservations. When you go to your polling station o
Increased activity perhaps. I've heard that some stations will not get on because its not a multiplier. There are at least a dozen government club stations that could be activated in a weekend. The i
Fine, settled. In the upcoming NAQPs and Sprints, no station from the District of Columbia is allowed to compete, as it is neither a U.S.state nor a DXCC entity nor a multiplier. Is that acceptable t
How is it reasonable that a political entity which issues its own drivers licenses, issues its own license plates, has its own representation in Congress, votes as a separate entity in elections, has
I think it can cut both ways. If things are close, there is absolutely an incentive to flooring it for whatever time remains in the contest to "win". Indeed, in many contests we already have "semi" r