It is possible that a large percentage of the increase in log submissions maybe due to the ease of using email instead of snail mail to submit logs while the actual number of participants has not in
Right on! Open Access contest database(s) with scores plus supplemental information based on modern techniques such as XML not Cabrillo. Unfortunately, many sponsors are still living in the stone-ag
I applaud WM5R's new analysis. It is novel and provides additional insight into the world of contesting. However, total QSO for contests in which participants can make contacts on more than one band
I was reading the 2006 CQWW rules in preparation for the SSB contest. A single sentence at the end of rule 5 of the log instructions caught my eye. It did not exist in the 2004 & 2005 rules. "By subm
Now that is an interesting analysis! Eric here is your data expressed in cumulative total percentage of the number of participants be they individuals, groups and clubs Range & Freq Cum % CK 2001-200
Bill that is an excellent article! Although the article a bit dated I think it is an important article. Perhaps you could submitting it as article to be re-posted on the contesting.com web site. We
ZoneProp Zone to Zone Propagation information will be available for the CQWW cw from Radio Sport Canada http://www.radiosport.ca/zoneprop/ ZoneProp uses an widely accepted propagation engine to deter
Actually they list MIDCARS Net 7.258 9 am - 5 pm daily http://www.qsl.net/arcars/nets.htm What is more interesting is there are two FCC complaints against two Midcars net controller issued June 1, 2
ZoneProp Zone to Zone Propagation information will be available for the CQWW cw from Radio Sport Canada http://www.radiosport.ca/zoneprop/ ZoneProp uses an widely accepted propagation engine to deter
Well Guy, there is no ruling on its use yet so I don't think a message is appropriate. However, we plan to make the Perl code that drives the model available for download in the future. The propagat
Tree I agree that dilution is a problem and current categories should be preserved. However, I believe that much of the discussion about assisted vs. unassisted is due to the general resistance of co
I agree! Fortunately or unfortunately there are loads of open source tools available to handle XML. It has durability and it is broadly supported by commercial, academic and open source communities.
I have parsed and visually inspect many XML files. They are just as easy to visually read as Cabrillo - perhaps even simpler because the physical location of characters in a field is usually of litt
It really isn't that difficult to use any language to parse a simple XML file sequentially such as the one that would be needed for most contest logs. I parse massive XML data files from my research
This problem is easily solved if XML is chosen as the format. A simple pre-processor can be written to convert the XML into Cabrillo format for use with existing software until these organizations d
ZoneProp Zone to Zone Propagation information will be available for the ARRL DX cw contest from Radio Sport Canada http://www.radiosport.ca/zoneprop/ ZoneProp uses an widely accepted propagation engi
Said the bug to the keyer :). Syl Sylvan Katz - VE5ZX Saskatoon, SK _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mail
I had a KH6 ask me to post him too :) Syl Sylvan Katz - VE5ZX Saskatoon, SK _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.
Hmmmm - this is a members only link (I fixed the typo in the link). What is the reasoning behind not making the error rates and the LCRs available to every contestant? There is no mention of this in