Think of contest duration this way. I run road races for fun. So do a lot of other people. I have no way of winning these road races. In fact, there is only one winner and some age group winners. But
Correct! I got back into CW for contesting. And then I discovered some of the most interesting QSOs that I have had have been on CW. CW will be around as long as we want it to be around. Government
True. But I do not need to go back to the bank and reapply when I upgrade computers or if my computer crashes. My user name and password is enough at any computer terminal. _________________________
RUFZ is a great program, but ever since I upgraded beyond Win 98 I can't use it any more. Morse Runner is the closest I have found that increases and decreases the speed of the code as you get calls
Think of contest duration this way. I run road races for fun. So do a lot of other people. I have no way of winning these road races. In fact, there is only one winner and some age group winners. But
Correct! I got back into CW for contesting. And then I discovered some of the most interesting QSOs that I have had have been on CW. CW will be around as long as we want it to be around. Government
True. But I do not need to go back to the bank and reapply when I upgrade computers or if my computer crashes. My user name and password is enough at any computer terminal. _________________________
Given the choices of hot and crowded or cool and comfortable, I will take the cool and comfortable if the Crowne Plaza. But it would be nice to have the forums back at Hara from a convenience standpo
Number 5 is the only time He sends Your callsign. So it verifies that He is talking to You. My opinion is that 5 is optional. You can usually tell if the other station is talking to you just by the t
...of our gross qso number we were called by 462 zero pointers...and its kinda amazing that some of these zero pointers were also dupes! But remember that we need the zone/country mult and smaller st
It is obvious that a lot of people want to keep it a DX contest and not allow credit for in country QSOs. Makes sense since it is called a DX contest. But we still have the stupid country and zone mu
This solution does not allow the CQing station to get a mult credit since 00 and not a 03/04/05 is sent. It would seem to me that the best solution, in order to keep the "flavor" of CQWW, is to autom
I QSL 100%. I import all of my contest QSOs into DXBase. When a card comes in I mark it as confirmed and if it has PSE QSL I hit the button for a label. About once per month I print out the labels, s
OK, I'll bite. What is a TACO, other than a Mexican food? _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinf
The SDR-1000 does not support QSK. CW seems to be an afterthought with this radio. For SSB it should be fine for contesting. _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list C
Here is an email that I received when I emailed the log to logs@wrtc2006.com. I also received an email from the robot thanking me for my participation and issuing me a tracking number. I am not sure
The K2 can be built for various SSB bandwidths. You can pretty much taylor the audio to how you like it to sound. My problem with it is that the Heil Pro Headset with the HC-4 element cannot drive it
Packet spots should be treated like any outside tool you get for free - buyer beware. Check the call. Let's not go down the path of berating people for a few bad spots. I have sent a few out over tim
Check my QRZ.com picture W4ATL. This setup works well. With touch typing, I can slide the keyboard partially under the table to get me a little closer to the radio. I also have the remote tuning knob
You are not the only one with this problem. This is one of the reasons I don't do more DX oriented contests from my QTH. You need power and decent antennas to get runs going. Otherwise it's S&P. I ha