Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:35:40 -0700 (PDT)
Before you take this poll, know the following: 1. It is unscientific 2. It is for your entertainment 3. It will close with the 100th respondant 4. The results-to-date will display immediately after y
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 03:49:23 -0700 (PDT)
No, (according to the survey sponsor) you can't vote twice from the same computer IP. What you experienced was probably related to your browser cache. Interestingly...this dovetails well into the dis
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 04:28:32 -0700 (PDT)
Now that most of this has settled (and we're all going to our happy places) I wanted to clarify something about my posts. I am fully (and in an unqualified manner) *against* the practice of Grid Circ
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 04:31:28 -0700 (PDT)
You inspired it, Rusty! It gives people an easy way to share an unambiguous opinion without revealing their identity (jeez...for getting so hung up on IDing our transmissions and engaging in worldwid
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:57:00 -0700 (PDT)
Multioperator stations calculate their score the same way that single operator and QRP portable stations do (grids x QSO-Points). The only class that calculates its score differently is Rover. This
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:40:27 -0700 (PDT)
The poll asked about grid circling. Captivity is not a component of the poll. You answered in alignment with what was asked. Captivity is a different issue. Regards, Ev _____________________________
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:19:51 -0700 (PDT)
If you haven't shared your opinion, please do so. http://www.pollmonkey.com/p.asp?U=2021122898 Ev, W2EV ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 06:59:54 -0700 (PDT)
Two quick points on this... The survey was intended to determine a general feel for what should be allowed and who thought that way. A solution wasn't intended. Giving grid circlers their own categor
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:47:55 -0700 (PDT)
How does one activate 22 grids in a 33 hour contest? This is fascinating to me. Was the route taken ever published? Ev, W2EV ____________________________________________________ Start your day with
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:08:06 -0700 (PDT)
The highest scoring stations deserve those scores with present interpretations by "The Commissioner". However, most of us believe that the most deserving stations are no longer the highest scoring s
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:25:24 -0700 (PDT)
I may be speaking out of school here (I haven't participated in a Field Day for a very long time), so please accept my apologies up front if I misstate something...but as far as I can remember, an x
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:01:13 -0700 (PDT)
<snip> I agree that others do it, and feel slimy. I did, and I did. I stopped. The class can become reinvigorated simply by treating Rovers as equals. We must stop applying a handicap (the golf term
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:10:44 -0700 (PDT)
Great suggestion, Mike! I did that with the N6ZZ log and found that google thinks it takes a lot longer to move from one grid-circling intersection to another than it took N6ZZ to do it. Man, those
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 05:16:58 -0700 (PDT)
<snip> It was the last travel-segment of their event, at the end of the contest for N6ZZ/r. Their last logged QSO was at 2354z. Their first logged QSO in the next circle-point took place at 0130z. T
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 05:47:26 -0700 (PDT)
Yes, it does, John. It is fascinating (to me anyway) the logistics behind a high scoring pack rove. I'm still studying the "side trip" made to DM74 between your first and second circling points. The
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:02:41 -0700 (PDT)
Yeah, probably. Until I can, it's back to talking about VHF Contesting stuff on a list titled appropriately. <grin> Ev __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 15:06:27 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Bill, I have to say that *much* depends on the power budget required. For instance, I've Roved using an extra car battery as a power source. It would power my rover transceivers and amps for long
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 12:35:57 -0700 (PDT)
-- "k9tms@mindspring.com" <k9tms@mindspring.com> wrote: Hi Tom, I'm curious as to how your operation plans to address these rules (I may be missing something obvious, so I'm asking).. -- 2.3.1.A rove
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 12:57:47 -0700 (PDT)
Here's food for thought... -- Single Operator -- For simplicity sake let's assume a decently equipped and skilled 2 meter station amasses 368 QSO-points (368 QSO's!) and makes contact in 40 grids. T
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 17:01:46 -0700 (PDT)
-- "k9tms@mindspring.com" <k9tms@mindspring.com> wrote: Hi Tom, Please accept my appology if my inquiry came across as a personal attack. Simply chalk it up to the problems with using e-mail for disc