First: signing /QRP should be grounds for a DQ, as far as I'm concerned. It's not a legitimate part of your callsign and if you think I'm going to waste another nanosecond working you after you've sc
This is an excellent point, and one that serves to remind us that even during a contest, contesters don't own the band. Casual ops are more prone than we to not understanding the scope of what's at
To me, that's akin to saying there's no time for operating properly, and I just don't believe that's the case. There are dozens of ways even top-performing stations 'lose' a few seconds here or ther
Hi Dennis, I really, REALLY hope you meant to say 'swab for explosives'! ;=\ Dennis Ashworth said... _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com
Hi all, I see that the Ft1000d is now, on average, a couple hun more than a used FT1kMP. Just out of curiosity, what does the collective wisdom say about the differences between rigs for contesting.
K4BEV hilariously postulated: ...and then asked.... The rules for non-amateur means of communication refer to soliciting contacts, in other words, IMing, telephoning, e-mailing or carrier-pigeoning y
My problem with Ev's suggestion is it seems to operate from the premise that contests are merely about everybody trying to climb to the top of one very large mountain. Since many contests place a goo
I still do not understand how this creates any kind of meaningful competitive endeavour. A home builders group in Winnipeg runs a Parade of Homes twice a year where builders enter their houses into c
Syl, Syl, Syl, That's why you have competitions based on geography. I can easily look at the ARRL regional boxes and see how I did compared to others in this division. I can look at the results for M
Like Barry said, Morse Runner is the only program you need to know. It trains you on the full gamut of CW skills: pileups, lids, QRN, QRM, QSB, RIT, high-speed, low-speed -- and of course, typing! I
One thing that I noticed from the last sprint was that more stations seemed to be waiting for a confirmation from the departing op before pouncing on the one taking over the frequency. That saved me
Many contests specify "listening time counts as operating time." Certainly, any transmitting done in an attempt to score contacts also counts as operating time. The main reason that listening rule ex
Seems to me a relatively easy way to answer the question is to look not at log submissions but at the overall number of individual callsigns, net of uniques, appearing in the combined aggregate of al
Randy, K5ZD: My experience is that you can't make them enjoy contesting, but you can get smaller This, to me, seems to be the answer to all the kvetching about giving the little guy a sandbox to play
As a VE4, I can honestly say the answer to working VE4 is small, unmarked bills. Lots of them. ;') Seriously, however, as a VE4 who is often on in modest to serious efforts, I will often find a spot
As much as I am ambivalent on the issue of real-time scoreboards, perhaps someone could enlighten me: How does a real-time scoreboard provide an unfair advantage? Or, how does it provide any more of
I like the idea of distance-based scoring (why do two stations who can see each other across the Strait of Gibralter get to count their Q at, what, four times the amount that a station in Nfld can cl
Gee, it seems to me that single ops who wish to win should ENCOURAGE packet cheating. Packet is obviously a drawback, not an advantage. I think there are enough examples here that we can let the "I l
Good points, all, and I certainly didn't intend to support the idea of messing up existing contests. For a new contest, however, I think it's something to consider, all of your points notwithstanding
I would encourage people to look beyond CQ WW on this issue. For example, what if 5 of those zero pointers were ID, ND, SD, AK and WY? You erase them from memory this time and they may erase you from