That is nonsense, and N2RJ knows it - it's yet another example of disregard for reality. The computer runs the show only in data contests, and especially in those with semi or fully-automated exchan
On 03/02/2020 19:57, N2RJ wrote: ARRL declared this type of remote operation OK for DXCC some years ago - you can operate from W6, work Macau, minami torishima, Philippines etc then hop on a remote o
It's simple - either you use ham-band RF, and nothing but ham-band RF, to find, facilitate, and confirm your contacts - or you don't. If you use, or in any way depend upon, other communications mode
His CQs, exchanges, and solicitations were not relayed over the internet. Whether by accident or design, and whether directly or indirectly, W2RE used the internet to find or facilitate or confirm co
> <snip> > > We can't stop innovating. That's what ham radio is all about. The clear and immediate danger is that we will "innovate" ham radio into something else entirely. Do we innovate ches
> Except that fundamentally FTx is simply an encode/decode system. It is fundamentally a software modem, optimized for processing weak-signal data. > It doesn't have to be semi-automated or fully
as I know As W3LPL says, in some respects the "amateur" went out of amateur radio almost 100 years ago. It appears to have continued to this day. How can there be fairness in contesting when relevan
No matter where you live, you can participate in all four at once using N1MM+ Logger. It is the only weekend where this happens. N1MM lets you enter all the exchanges as received without switching lo
SD creates a single Cabrillo combined log which should be sent to all four contest sponsors. As Dick K4XU says, "there is no need to weed out non-counting contacts, they do it all". That's a "featu
As this was a "first time ever" to actually participate, not just make a few contacts, I find the unique approach toward scoring, indefensible? Contest sponsors are entitled to define whatever rules
... "test" at the end of a CQ completely throws off the rhythm of answering a CQ. If you need that "test" to tell you it's time to call, you need to go back to contesting school! Please explain the p
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For as long as contest sponsors refuse to define "excessive bandwidth", they give themselves plenty of wriggle room (the do-nothing option) when presented with reports of key clicks or splatter. I co
<snip> I see little difference between the attitude expressed in this post and those who, in the '50s and '60s, refused to switch to that new-fangled SSB. I also fail to see how FT8 differs from RTTY
Another way of saying that SO Unassisted is no longer an option in SAC? 73, Paul EI5DI _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.c
"Allowing for assistance in all operator categories" may be true, but it is not the whole truth. What you (the SAC Committee) have done is abolish the SO Unassisted category. This benefits no one bu
Given a choice I generally prefer unassisted operation myself, That's my point - the "SAC folks" have unilaterally removed that choice - and dressed it up as "allowing for assistance in all categor
Last month, W3LPL and K3LR announced that they had decided not to compete in any multi-op category in the 2020 CQ WW contests. http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-09/msg00036.h
You'll have to live with it. With remote operation the RF between the stations remains the same. Therefore, it doesn't matter where the remote operator is. That's the bottom line - we all have to g
On 13/11/2020 22:49, Michael Ritz wrote: Not that it means much, but I am in the process of updating the ARRL General Contest rules to include "clean signal" requirements, including key clicks and sp