Hi all, Greetings to all global competitors in ARRL DX. Nice to work all of you. And nice to have sunspots and a forgiving auroral cap to be ABLE to work all of you! One thing that became apparent in
Maybe it is. Confirm it AFTER the log entry deadline. 73, kelly ve4xt -- Original Message -- From: <k8bb@comcast.net> To: <CQ-Contest@contesting.com> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 12:18 AM Subject:
From http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/insmt-gst.nsf/en/sf08168e.html#1.1 1.2 Call Sign Prefixes When a Canadian applicant is qualified to install or operate an amateur radio station, a call si
Honesty, and the presumption of it, is the backbone of so many rules (1500 watts, are you really running a tribander and wires?, you're NOT using e-mail to avoid busted Qs, right?) that to apply it t
Personally, I think the callsign borrowing thing is much ado about nothing. To quote Charlie Sheen in Ferris Bueller's Day Off: "You could ditch." If there's nothing stopping Ham A from doing it, the
Hi Jamie, B doesn't penalize folk who worked someone who didn't submit a log, B and N should only penalize when a cross-referencing of logs provides clear evidence something went wrong. There are thr
The key to callsigns, IMHO, is to pick one with good phonetics and good CW duration, and then, most important -- USE IT A LOT! If you use it a lot, that will become more important than the actual cal
Considering the state of disarray that still plagues the Russian nuclear program, do you really want to live at a site that's probably still not removed from the Russian targetting computers? Then ag
The following is from Riley Hollingsworth, special counsel for enforcement at the FCC. Worthy reading for any would-be contesting cops out there. If you know of one, pass this on. Copied from the ARR
Hi all, In following this thread, does anybody have any knowledgeable input into the question of IC 756 PRO (not II, not III, just PRO) vs. FT1KMP/MkV? I'd love to hear from someone who actually has
I can't help but think that maybe it's just us who sees FD as an opportunity for some serious contesting. My experience in FD suggests that sentiment is not shared by the majority. The last time I dr
Hi Mike Your point is well-taken, however, I don't think anybody here is advocating a 'berating' of anybody. It never hurts to gently persuade folk to choose the right path, even if just by example.
Has something changed? AFAIK, uniques do NOT get removed. They are merely pointed out as they SUGGEST a busted or NIL QSO. Bad and NIL QSOs do get removed, but I believe uniques are left in, as there
My .02 starts with a couple questions: 1. To what extent do non-HQ stations compete with HQ stations? (Not at all, as far as I can see.) 2. To what extent do HQ stations really intend to compete with
Hi all, What can anyone tell me about the FT-1000 (no D, no MP, no MK V, just the FT-1000)? What made a D a D? How good was the basic radio? Thanks and 73, Kelly ve4xt _______________________________
Penalties for inaccuracy only punish the inaccurate, which is the way it should be. 73, kelly ve4xt -- Original Message -- From: "Randy Thompson" <k5zd@charter.net> To: <cq-contest@contesting.com> Se
Gord, As are others on the list, I'm really at a loss for what it is you are trying to say here. If you were to determine score, you'd take what you think are valid QSO points, mult them by the multi
I don't dispute the 40 per cent advantage claimed by AA5AU, but to even suggest that same 40 per cent advantage carries over into operator-decoded modes is, I think, misleading. There is an advantage
The question of losing a run frequency isn't dependent on the 1R vs 2R question: it's the same. If you leave a frequency long enough that a reasonably courteous op feels no compunction about calling
Plus, it presupposes that SO2R ops are worthy of special consideration. This isn't a slag against SO2R, as I'm sure most SO2R ops would agree that their run frequency isn't any more guaranteed by vi