Hi Steve, Dale, others who think it is discourteous not to ID after every QSO: You missed Bob's point entirely. The idea is to have callers in the pileup wait as short a time as possible to work you.
Hi Steve, Implicit in your response is the recognition that there is a trade-off between wasting the time of those who know your call and are already in the pile-up, and those who are listening for y
I went full out this year in the Poisson d'Avril. I stationed my yacht, the Olere d'Pisces (Something Smells Fishy) just over the international date line and operated remotely. As soon operations beg
I have not received any CQ Magazine since the June, 2014 issue. Has anyone received July, August or September, 2014? 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest m
I was one of the former regulars who didn't participate in this SSB Sprint. The reason is that I have found the last two hours of the past few SSB Sprints torture due to limited activity. It seems li
Would those opposed to CQ Magazine's position on Crimea support the position that the upcoming operation from the Caliphate of ISIS by a boy and his radio with a call sign issued by the now local rul
When I remote my VY2TT station, I plan on trying a SO2S operation. Single op, two stations. If I work myself, will I become assisted because I will know the frequency and call of the station I am wor
Hi Kelly, ARRL General Rule 3.3 also refers to a "given location." I would argue that the "given location" is the place of the origin of the RF transmission. If you are operating two stations at diff
I just posted a request to the new NA Phone Sprint web page suggesting they add the individual MAR provinces and DC as mults. Why not? They just added Hawaii. It is in everyone's best interest that c
My understanding of the reason CQP uses MAR as one multiplier is because there are 58 CA counties as mults for out of state stations and with MAR as one mult there are an equal 58 mults for in state
I have both. The DuneStar have blown more frequently. The Array Solutions have gone out of tune more frequently. 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT Looking for feedback on multi-band bandpass filters to use for S
I've been reading this thread and having a hard time understanding why anyone who is seriously competing would want to tell their competitors how they are doing. I've never looked at a scoreboard, ex
Not only a lot of DQ's. The #1 SOABHP claimed score TO7A (UT5UGR, op) was DQ'd. I would really like to see the reason(s) and supporting documentation for that one. 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT _____________
Hi Steve, I've looked fairly carefully at the TO7A log. The operator is expertly interweaving QSOs using dueling CQs on two bands almost the entire contest. There are a few short successful mult pass
One item in my analysis was the victim of an improper cut and paste. "At 0727 - 0740 there are a lot of mults on 40m while running high rate on another band." There was no activity on another band. I
If the TO7A DQ was due to "unverifiable QSOs" or "log padding" or whatever term best describes the basis for the DQ, it would have been helpful to those looking at the TO7A log to know that was the r
I see nothing wrong with realizing I miscopied, or mistyped, a call, or part of an exchange, earlier in the contest, after working the same station on another band, or even subsequently hearing him o
This strikes me as successfully addressing the discussions over the past few days. No requirement of recordings, although I personally have no problem with that. QSO alerting assistance of call sign
I've been sending enn for 599 for a long time. No one ever complained. 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://l
Hear, hear, Ed, N1UR. Exactly. The only rules for anyone who wants to contest are the rules of the FCC or other governmental authorities of their countries. Have fun in contests doing anything you wa