Good job! Three years is excellent from CQ. My best (worst) for receiving a CQWW plaque was eight years including three personal appeals to management. /Rick N6XI On 8/2/05, N7MAL <N7MAL@citlink.net>
Has the WPX submission address changed from that stated in the 2005 rules? I'm getting bounces from ssb@cqwpx.com. /Rick N6XI _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list C
Handicapping individual contests seems to me an exercise in futility. It would require convincing the sponsors of the major contests to mess with decades of precedent. Even if this were successful, a
Well, KA5WSS has caved in to the Evil Empire (for reasons that are good for him) and written the latest version of LogConv using .NET, a 22MB pile of Microsh... I need some new log conversions but I
Hi, Art. I think you were right the first time. If you develop the skill, it can help and be reasonably non-intrusive. It's a genuine single-op skill and should not put you in a different category. M
How about moving it to the Internet? _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
[ARRL Contest Rate Sheet for December 14, 2005 proposed "Contests within contests." See quote below.] Great idea, Ward! Here's my twist on the contest within a contest: It's actually a category withi
This is not surprising. LoTW is over-engineered, user-hostile, unnecessarily complex and, anecdotally at least, insufficiently reliable. It is much easier to open an investment account and make onlin
Stupid. So very, very stupid. The maximum achievable score of a multi-single entry is lower than that of a single-op entry because of this ridiculous handicap. NCCC uses a better technique to avoid t
It's easy when you've been down so long it looks like up. /Rick N6XI _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mail
Nothing. We all agree that big antennas have an advantage over small antennas ... bigger than the SO2R advantage over SO1R. We all agree that rare locations have an advantage over mundane locations .
At my Truckee station I run two radios. At my Saratoga station I run one. I don't win in either location. I have more fun in Truckee. /Rick _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest
Good point, Syl. Despite my tirade against the inference that SO2R is in some way unfair to SO1R ops, I agree with you that reporting the use of two radios would be interesting for us results analyze
WinTest is European, with an enthusiastic, multi-national development and test team. It gets most press and personal testimonials in Europe, so many of us in the US just have never seen or even heard
It would be funny were it not so infuriating that most software seems to be designed to the assumption that the user is a complete idiot and documented on the assumption that he is a mind-reading gen
I use a pre-fill DB as a keystroke saver and reasonableness checker. If a discrepancy is such that there is reasonable doubt, I'll ask. For example, unless I know you're sending with a computer, I'll
Randy K5ZD recently proposed 12 and 24 hour SOAB categories, but I fear his suggestion falls short of the objective of creating a new kind of competition. 48 hours is hard because taking breaks costs
Exactly - it's hard to get a sponsor to do anything new (and for good reason). That's why I made the oblique reference to someone other than the sponsor doing it. The sponsor provides just a contest
It is true that someone will always be (or feel) disadvantaged. But there are ways to reduce the actual disadvantage substantially. One way would be to use one set of boundaries (Selection Areas) to
Guilty. My QSO count and current score were posted correctly. My total QSO points was posted as total mults and my band breakdown was reported as all zeros. Most of the other funny looking entries lo