Why not a complex number (100 + 50i) ? None of the rules say the number has to be real... Tor N4OGW _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com h
The IARU scoring is also very unfair to those in North America who are on the wrong side of the zone 8/zone 7 boundary. The population of stations is much greater in zone 8, so stations in zone 7 (as
Anyone remember the Gridloc contest? Tor N4OGW _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contes
I see nothing wrong with just displaying signals on a bandscope. It's been available to owners of fancy Icom rigs for years. The CQ160 rules even say "Passive spotting does NOT include band scopes, S
I don't know if this applies to you, but I ended up duping a couple of DX stations because they were not sending their callsign frequently enough. It is impossible to be sure if I need the station or
Yes, the rule wording for the low-band antennas is not clear. As written "...and single-element antennas on 40, 80, and 160 meters", it is not clear if that means ONE antenna for each of 40/80/160, o
Actually, getting the precise zone is quite important because of the zone-based scoring (1 pt same zone/3 points other zones). I bet that if you are in zone 10, your score will be higher by 15-20% co
It looks like ARRL made a decision: the old text list placing all lower-48 US stations in zones 6, 7, and 8 has been added to the IARU contest rule page: http://www.arrl.org/iaru-hf-championship see
During a WRTC competition, one is never going to be able to control spotting from people outside the competition. But there is one (slightly extreme) way to make the effect of spots virtually the sam
Easy: current hardware has the capability to do in-band SO2R at any power level without the need for far-remote rx antennas, super filters, etc. All that is needed is a wide-band SDR hooked to the I
In about the same time taken to send "/QRP", you could have sent your whole call again, which would be much more useful. Tor N4OGW/5 _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
In most SSB contests, the extra qso's come from casual ops (not serious contesters). Because of the Sprint QSY rule, you work very few casual ops during the contest. It just happens that the particip
Does not seem legal to me with current rules if you take the frequencies from a remote source (telnet). Blips on a bandscope are fundamentally different from frequencies taken from telnet: For exampl
No, not legal. You are still getting big benefits from Skimmer DECODING the cw: only spotting stations calling cq, matching to the callsign database to reject junk, etc. As you recognized, otherwise:
The January NAQP is coming up soon. I notice that skimmer use (within one's own station) is now allowed for single ops. I don't remember that in the rules before...I am surprised there have been no c
"Access to spotting information obtained directly or indirectly from any source other than the station operator, such as from other stations or automated tools, is prohibited, except as follows: Tech
I'm releasing a new contest logging program I've been working on for the last year. Its name is so2sdr, and the general idea is to explore uses of SDR technology for unassisted SO2R cw contesting. By
The program doesn't know at all what a new signal is. All it can tell you is that the new signal is one you have not identified/marked yet. It is up to the operator to listen and see what is there an
And summer favors east/midwest for NA contests: sporadic-E gives some hope for us to work close in states on 20,15,10, and QRN makes it tough for the guys out west on the low bands since the distance
I am in Tucson, AZ and I'm looking for a station to operate the NA CW Sprint from (Saturday Feb 5/6). SO2R-capable would be great, but I'll take what I can find...can probably drive +/- a few hours.