Of course, even "CQ N5EE" is significantly longer than "QRL?". The other issue that comes up when you do it this way is... what happens if someone answers your quick CQ? - isn't your caller likely to
One thing I think we should keep in mind is the possibility the person who's using the frequency is NOT a contester. I would imagine most of us would respond to pretty much anything that got transmit
You'd be surprised how little good that would do. == Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View, TN EM66 first licensed in November 1973 _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-
I *think* I've successfully run Procomm Plus/DOS under Windows XP. The difference, however, is that PC+ uses the COM ports the way they were intended. Handshaking leads were used only for handshaking
Cabrillo is MUCH easier to parse than either ADIF or XML. Especially for Novice programmers -- and for those trying to read the files without a computer. (seriously, you can print a Cabrillo file & t
I would respectfully disagree... Now, I'm not saying XML is necessarily *hard* to parse visually. It could, after all, be a termcap file<grin>! It would seem to me a consistent location of the charac
MOST interesting. (and disappointing) Strangely enough, I've *never* received an email of that type. Despite having operated a couple of contests in the last year with exchanges that won't match the
Within a geographically large country (USA, Russia, Canada, Australia, China, others?) would there be a point in using a semi-democratic or jury kind of process? Something like this: - WRTC organizer
Yep, and this is why I think there's no need to restrict use of remote receivers. A rule restricting all transmitters operating on the contest bands to a 500m circle would IMHO be adequate. -- Doug S
OK, so you turn on your remote receiver in Australia, and hear YB0XYZ blasting in on 7015KHz. So you turn on your transmitter - 100w and indoor antenna in New England - and call the YB0. Really think
FWIW, if you worked W1AW/4 in IARU last summer on 40CW, 20SSB, or 15SSB then you worked Jeff's station. -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View, TN EM66 _______________________________________________ CQ-Co
Probably likewise, but... - Often, there is nowhere to QSY. (hard to imagine this being the case in JIDX but in some other contests, certainly) - If we insist that the 14237 Daily Disease Discussion
Do they have to be contiguous? -- (I want CN85tj, DM03wv, DM79cf, EK99hg, EM66kj, EN44hw, EN53ll, FK42xm, FM19jd, FN03bm, FN21ok, FN31be, FN42ev, IN94tr, and KO00hv) -- I wonder how many contesters k
I don't know that the circle process *does* offer an advantage to clubs in the middle of the country. Population density varies wildly from one part of the country to another. A circle of 175-miles r
I do wonder if it's possible this is because of clubs not being formed because the potential members knew they wouldn't be able to participate in club competition? -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View, T
And that *can* work fairly well, but merely being able to copy multiple signals through the QRM doesn't help that much if the *other guy* doesn't have the same ability... -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant
Bill wrote "...re-write the log sheets in order to make the log entries readable...". I don't see anything there that states, or suggests, using any source of information except what's already in the
I would suggest it should be possible to do a simple statistical analysis & determine whether a particular entrant isn't logging zero pointers. Say, on average, for every 1,000 QSOs claimed by an ent
I'm way too young to have seen it firsthand but from my reading, I always thought it meant "raw" AC. What's the point of rectifying it if you're not using a filter? Can't you just put the raw AC on t