A curious letter given the two stations most likely to benefit from our lack of sub-bands... are owned by Americans. The truth is, Ed, stations between Sault St. Marie and Penticton are highly unlike
HI Ed, So can I put you in touch with a real estate agent? ;=) Ive never asked for sympathy from W1s about our lot in most contests, but the response to suggestions about the lack of propagation in V
Hi Ken, Thanks for weighing in. I can't help but wonder, if the situation were reversed, and someone was admonishing Ed to impose greater constraints on his operation than required, if he could hones
This is all so much ado about nothing! Look at last year's results. In SAH, VY2TT is nearly 1,000 QSOs and 57 countries behind K4XS and 200 QSOs and 54 countries behind K3WW. VY2ZM is third overall i
N1UR pointed out I mistakenly used the CW scores. He wanted a correction. So here it is. While the analysis makes a somewhat stronger case for his argument in S, it is even weaker in other classes. A
Jim, Those are all excellent points. One thing, though, is it suggests the Canadian sub-bands (lack thereof, really), isn't really a core issue. Your fixes would fix a lot for a bunch of folks. I can
I think if someone works a DX station and asks for the DX station's call, the DX station either provides the call, or loses the Q and gets a NIL. Steve's solution answers everybody's needs: a DX stat
Wow. I'd never ask a station running to QSY, and certainly wouldn't be such a knob as to berate someone for not. I don't mind getting the question when I'm s&p, but I don't feel beholden to agree, ev
The best answer here -- work him, ask for his call, NIL if refused -- isn't about being vindictive, it's simply about giving him the chance to do the right thing. The NIL at the end is required by th
Sent from my iPhone The most successful also SHOW UP on the proposed frequency. But it is not bad manners to have a legitimate reason to say no, either. ______________________________________________
Paul is right: what he says is what attracted us and continues to attract us. That's not the relevant question, however. He's also right to say apples and oranges. But the problem is the kids like or
I don't think Internet/non-Internet is the hill we die on. We're not fighting to preserve liberty, to fend off Fascist dictators or overthrow an oppressive regime. We're simply trying to keep our li
One of the issues that seems to impact immediacy is scoring/log checking. In video gaming, you know right away how you're doing, not waiting months for results. By the same token, contesting needs lo
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If I have started late in a contest, as Art says, giving out puny serials while most everyone else is in the hundreds, a single- or two-digit SN gets more fill requests naked than with leading zeroes
Hi Bruce, Assisted is very clearly defined in the rules of most major contests: it is the receiving specifically of other stations' callsigns and frequencies. It is not a matter of opinion. Read the
Assisted is not defined as below in the rules of most contests. It is defined as receiving, through any means other than finding the station yourself while tuning, SPECIFIC information about callsign
To be sure, I do agree with Ed and Ron to a point: I can certainly see how realtime scoring could be assistance. What I have been trying to say is that, just like the rules makers did with Skimmer, j
Or, we could simply limit our interpretations of the term "assisted" to what the rules actually say and not try to read into them anything beyond the printed word. The rules say spots, however genera
Some contests operate differently than others. In some contests, for instance, its possible to blast through a bad error rate with brute force: make enough QSOs that even when the bad ones are remove