Well, sh** does happen. However, it tends to happen to everyone about the same rate. Yes - any specific data point may be wrong, but the trends aren't. If you are seeing error rates in the CQ WW or
Time grows short before the start of the Stew Perry Top Band Distance Challenge. The contest starts at 1500 UTC on Dec 18th and runs for 24 hours. Complete rules and awards information can be found a
Many thanks to the 255 of you who have sent in your Stew Perry TBDC logs using the robot. This greatly reduces the work I have to do in order to produce the final scores. There is still another week
Fellow contesters. Well - I think everyone who has beaten me in all of the contests I have operated has had an advantage. In that CD party when WA2UOO/KP4 showed up and was on 10 meters working EVERY
Here I am going down memory lane about hand duping and color coded dupesheets... blah-blah-blah and out of the middle of nowhere: What the ????. These guys are reaching new lows in advertising their
With the creative energy of Bruce Horn, WA7BNM, a new step has been taken in making the internet improve the efficiency of contest log submission. For those of you who don't make many contacts in the
The new sprint log entry form is on-line and ready for you to enter you log. This is perfect if you kept your log on paper, and need to enter it into a computer like device. Congrats to AB1AV, who cr
W2UP asks: Well, the DX contest exchange certainly presents lots of challenges to the log checking software. First off, ALL power exchanges are converted to integers for purposes of log checking. K,
Maybe a better question is "when will the final results be published while you still remember the contest?" The final CW NCJ Sprint Results will be posted on the ncjweb.com web site the day after th
Ragnar, LA5HE comments: Sigh - this is one of my pet peeves about 160 meter contests in general... The small amount of space is used up by stations calling about 10 CQs per QSO (or even more) per QSO
Here is the list of missing CW Sprint logs. It would be helpful to get lots sooner rather than later. This will make it easier to publish the results on the day after the contest. Also - it appears t
The CW Sprint Results have been posted to the NCJ web site. Go to www.ncjweb.com and click on the CONTESTS tab and then RESULTS under the Sprints section. Use the drop down menus to select the contes
Well - many of you might feel that contesting / amateur radio should be a political free zone. I probably agree with that - but I don't think it is appropriate for us to impose that upon other people
If you operate under a higher class license than the one you have, it has been correctly stated that you need to have the control operator there. Your communications fall into the same category as a
Totally agree and I experienced one of the first WAE contests when packet was allowed in the same category as single-op. I operated from France and my score was totally demolished by German stations
Wouldn't it be cool if you could operate a phone contest where everyone on the band was in the contest - and there weren't any nets, SSTV, pig farmers or even Indonesian fishing boats? How about plen
Here is one example of effective VHF/UHF antennas on a truck: http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/photo/n2jmh/N2JMH%20Rover%204.jpg Actually, the VHF contests have a perfect category for you! You can rove aroun
Well, yes - a Drake C-Line can be transverted - as can most any HF radio... although I am not sure I would suggest it for something like a KWS-1. A quick way to see what a transverter is, would be t
As an attempt to reward competition at the local level, the Boring Amateur Radio Club is sponsoring four plaques for the CN grid field. If you aren't up on grid squares, the CN grid field encompasses
Someone mentioned that the link to this posting was not working and it appears some of the September 1998 archives of cq-contest are a little messed up. However, I did find that someone posted a copy