Changing points like this can be very good or very bad... What if your own zone and country are Zero points and NO MULTIPLIER allocated for own Zone...?? Would this affect every competitor evenly ?
José it is a very difficult concept to grasp - The contest committee and damned if they do and damned if they don't. We must assume that DA0HQ operators operated with honor - that is what we expect o
I feel the only way forward with the category if it is to be externally managed is ZERO points from ones own country (perhaps multiplier credit only) and a reduction to a "normal" Multi Multi defini
Perhaps what us DX stations need to do is organise a contest at the same time to support DX stations participating in FD .... I really like this line: "It does NOT say to work as many K/VE stations a
cq-contest@contesting.com Greetings All, I am organising a submission to the Australian Authorities regarding 2X1 shorter call-signs and higher power for contests on behalf of the VK Contest Club.
So we come back to the devious suggestions of jamming the cluster network with false spots for the entire major contest weekend to make it useless.... We have guys with the technology to analyse the
Hi Joe Try the CN2R website - some excellent snippets - http://cn2r.net/cn2r/Audio/AudioSnips.aspx Trent VK4TI Speaking of recordings, I'm working on giving a contesting presentation at several of
Hi Joe I would have thought this argument was settled at the WRTC - a fully filtered FT1000MP 1st and Second place at WRTC 2010....in fact three of the first four places... Preference FT1000MP then
PROGRESSIVE . . . with knowledge abreast of science, well-built and efficient station and operation above reproach. - radio amateurs code from 1928.. Without CW decoders over 50% of the cannon fodder
The VK Contest club - will be holding a luncheon at Ipswich Jets on Wednesday the 29th December - If you are interested in Contesting drop in at 12:00 Midday until we are finished...meals are ala car
And don't forget to swing those antenna's around to listen for VK4TI ...will have the new (old) quad on air for the ARRL 10M contest - HY Gain Big Gun 11 CB quad.. Be interested if anyone has used on
Good one Mike - Things are a bit different down under for our secret weapon - we use Beer ! In fact we need it in summer for dehydration and in winter - well we just need it... 73s from VK VK4TI OK
Then there is the opposite. The true high performers like Cn2r who identify with every transmission. Listening to the mp3 files on cn2r website gives an insight into best practice pileup handling. Vk
These comments amuse me from a VK contest perspective - In most of our contests due to lack of numbers we have multiple contacts with other stations - usually in three hour banks- you need to be po
Charles for years the contesting community down under has said we cant compete with the Hawaiians for Oceania - Recently from the antipodes the ZL8X team did just that - competed and broke the Ocean
Don't ICE make a receiver overload unbuilt into a lightning detection device? Trent Sampson 0408 497550 _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.c
Hi Mario - ICE made a device that protected Rceiver front ends from overload in contest envirionments http://www.iceradioproducts.com/reconly.html#rflimiter it appears this device could be used o
Steve. The same thing happens anywhere. Even down under and here the domestic contests lack that much activity they allow repeat contacts every three hours. Yet we have people like this spruiking on
This is really over board - As opposed to most competitions, in Radio Contesting, we rely on the Insurance adage of "utmost good faith" We do get disappointed when that is not displayed but we need