Remember ole good times before packet was implemented. Even then there were all those crouds of poor old ladies along highways, there were all those solicited/non-solicited info on a mult hiding at X
Gents, Before taking decisions on Cabrillo it would be nice to find out: - what contesters would gain with an implemention of a new standard - would it be worth extra expenses for updating the commer
Hi all, Just came across the rules of WPX RTTY this year and cannot resist to quote the Ch. IV partially: "No unattended operation or contacts through gateways or digipiters are permitted". 73, Vladi
One stack facing West, another stack facing East. Each stack has its own 1.5 KW PA. Both are connected to the same TRX. You shout CQ in both directions at once and cover both directions at once. 1.5
<...> Mike, You are missing two things: 1. Me and some others want to work a STATION situated in a country XXX, but not a REPEATER installed in this country. 2. Me and some others do not want somebo
Yesterday I have sent my log to cqm@srr.ru and got an instant receipt confirmation. 73, Vladimir VE3IAE -- _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contestin
Gents, Don't you think that logging cut numbers the way they sound, like 5NN, is not quite correct? And it's even worse to discuss it on this estemeed forum. The reality is, there are two ways to tra
The answer is not straight forward because the radios are totally different. I'd use the ProIII for SSB and RTTY, and 775DSP for CW. You can contact me off list for eventual details. BTW I have no cl
There are talks about minimizing QSO time all the time here in the list. Putting just a call-sign in the end of CQ is not really good in respect of time saving for two reasons: - If a S&P station tun
David, Thanks for your initiative. It might finally push contest sponsors, awards' programs sponsors, etc, to start working on the remote operation topic. In the meantime did you check the legal part
David, Indeed, a green light from respective authorities is the must before the whole project starts. It would be much better to have an approval/disapproval on that than to let the authorities to fi
Dale, You are not the first one with such suggestions. Having seen things like that I decided another day to try to fight such opinions and ended up with an article which has been published by sever
Skimmer is a wrong topic for discussion. It is just a phenomenon of this particular moment. Programmers, etc, don't stop and tomorrow they will bring another innovation along, and the discussions wil
OK gents, in the ongoing discussion the cause and effect are apparently not tied together and mostly various effects are only discussed. Back to basics, i.e to the cause. 1. The amateur telegraphy is
Yet another look at open logs. As a contest sponsor/adjudicator I have been asked several times to make logs open for the following reason: Let us go through logs and determine poorest operators so t
Tom, The solid state Icom IC-PW1 is doing a great job for me for everything, CW/SSB and even RTTY at full circle for the whole 48 hrs non stop. It IS 100% automatic. Having used for that things like
http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/XtremeCQ_WW_Experimenter_June.pdf 3. The entrant's transmitting sites must be located in a single country, as defined by the applicable licencing authority, and a sing
Gents, Nice dreams, but it's too late. The animal is out. It's called, skimmers. Even if there are no usual web or VHF clusters, people will turn their local skimmers on to look for WRTC calls. 73, V
Just curious, why virtually all (big) contests' sponsors support all kind of stuff like packet, skimmers and even create unbelievable classes like Xtreme, but nobody has created and maintained just a
This topic, as well as some others, would never come up again if contest sponsors themselves would simply follow up rules. What we actually have by now? - SS. The year of the first license as a part