This is the same old anti-contesting garbage that I have been hearing for the 42 years. Heck, I could sit here and make inflamatory unsubtantiated comments too.... "In the last 50 years there are 17
I just saw the news. My condolances go out to the people of Japan and I hope all of our good friends in JA are OK. 73 Steve K0SR _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing lis
"Just traded my bride for a notebook " I would have thought you could have gotten more than that for her.... 73 K0SR _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest
Maryland? Win one of them from Wisconsin and I'll REALLY be impressed. 73 Steve K0SR I am not going to compare equipment or operators, but I will note that K5ZD is an oustanding operator who has done
"So what's next, an aurora zone multiplier? Barry W2UP" Now I'd be in fabvor of that one :) 73 de Steve K0SR North of the Black Hole.... _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mai
"The only people with the real location problems that may be insurmountable are those up in the north and west. They have a path problem limiting propagation, and that might be insurmountable. Oddly,
"However, the "poor saps" as you call them would be more competitive with everyone closer to Europe. Because of where the vast majority of contacts to be made are located, everyone farther from Europ
Very true. In addition, this year we had several lines of severe thunderstorms roll through over the course of the weekend. I would have had significant down time waiting for the lightnng to go away.
Or maybe alternate SSB and CW weekends every other year? Easy. Switch WPX SSB with WPX CW.-- Original Message -- From: "Mats Strandberg" To: Cc: "KL7RA" ; ; "Richard DiDonna NN3W" Sent: Friday, July
Bob, While what you say is true, back in the paper log days we would all sign a summary sheet that included a statement like "I have observed all competition rulesas well as all regulations for Amate
Interesting. That weekend I made 2600+ QSO's and assuming 5 CQ's per QSO that means I called CQ probably 10,000 times. According to DX Summit I ws spotted 11 times all weekend. What does that tell yo
I figured out how to download raw spot data from the RBN and import it into Excel. A liittle slicing and dicing later, now I can see more accurately what happened over the CQWW weekend. I was spotted
I have found a sure-fire way to reduce the number of bureau cards I have to deal with. Simply put, I operate from Minnesota. Since I never have to worry about working large numbers of DX stations fro
All this discussion got me curious.... I went to the LOTW site and downloaded an ADIF file of my 40,000 electronic confirmations. Then I imported that into a new log file in DX4WIN. DX4WIN says I hav
I've said it before and I'll say it again......Zip Code 55075 should count as a double multiplier in all contests. I even know guy who lives there. 73 Steve K0SR _____________________________________
Tom, The idea isn't to move 1 or 2 Kc up the band but rather use an offset of 100-200 Hz. Spot chasers end up so close to zero beat with each other that you can't pick out a call. It happens to me he
I've worked a lot of station in a DX contest that were operating ** in between ** the DX and his split pileup. Was there lots of confusion? You betcha, however Tom's point is valid. With a wider spli
In today's mail I found a beautiful certificate from CQ for my efforts in last November's CQWW CW contest. First place in the Tenth district and #17 in the US. That doesn't happen very often from thi
Yea, use those big 8 1/2 inch ones! :) More floppy disks! _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinf
5 to 10 seconds is two entirely different values.... If I just called CQ and you take 5 to 10 seconds to answer me, I might be on the other rig answering Tree's CQ. Count to 5 out loud; why wait that