Sorry ... I must dissent ;). Although not a DX contest, SS is one of the most intensely contested events out there. While some participants are having "fun" with their phonetics, the other guy is was
I have to agree with you, Ron. And with Mal, of course ... at least in this instance ;) I operated 40m single band during this contest and listened to several of the big guns from this very reflector
That is indeed a startling (and unfortunate for you) statistic. A couple of thoughts ... 1. The majority of those zero pointers probably came from people who haven't read the rules and won't be submi
Maybe this isn't new, but I didn't seem to notice much of it in past contests. Many times during the contest this weekend I heard a stateside station break a 40m pileup by transmitting on the DX freq
Are you seriously thinking the "extra" time it takes you to send your check is significant compared with the many other variables involved in the contest? a. The dead time between CQs versus the inci
Hi, Dave. I had the same issue and a little searching turned up this extension for Firefox (it also works for Thunderbird) that does the trick very nicely. https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2351
Unless you're using cut numbers that are readily recognizable by the majority of people operating in the contest you're totally kidding yourself that you are saving time. All it takes is a handful of
Somehow this seemed like a serious question to me. If Tonno is getting any serious replies (other than the first one about virtual contesting) they must be going direct and off the list. Kind of a sh
I normally don't have anything against packet/cluster spots in a contest. If the rules allow it who am I to complain, but I discovered a new reason to dislike it during this contest. I operated this
Hi, George. I didn't use the cluster this contest, but I'd bet $100 that the majority of J7zeroJ spots were typos caused by a bad keystroke rather than by bad copy. The "O" and the zero keys are clos
I don't see the point of sandblasting in public people who are simply trying to do you a favor. The fact they may mess it up is your problem, not theirs ... it comes with the territory when you decid
I don't get it. How is that any different than any modest station having to compete against a bigger one in their same state? What's so special about DC (other than the original argument regarding it
The author of the post I was replying to used the argument that DC should be a multiplier because otherwise Eric and other DC hams didn't have much incentive to enter the contest if they had to compe
This whole discussion on defining the "circle" for purposes of club competition seems to me to be going in circles. I fully support Pete's proposal to standardize the size and method of establishing
Hi, John. Yeah, I was aware of that. I just figured that the sponsors decided discriminating against DXpeditions was not in the best interest of their contests, and therefore added that exclusion to
Do CQ contest scores get adjusted even after the NIL/UBN reports are issued? If so, how is that typically decided? According to my 2006 SSB listing in CQ Magazine, it seems that an additional contact
Uhh, that doesn't make sense at all. Like Mal said, sunlight and propagation (and the contest) run on UTC, not local time. They haven't changed relative to each other. Why is that so difficult to und
I'm not a RTTY guy so I have no vested interest here, but it seems to me that RTTY is a natural for emergency communications. It doesn't have the S/N or narrow bandwidth advantages of CW, but I don't
I think it's obvious that we are all supposed to copy the zone that was sent, and to trust the scoring process to take that into account if it was wrongly sent to enough people to flag the system. Th
No attempt to lynch anyone from my end, and in fact I'm pretty sure the VE2 in question was actually located in zone 2 during the contest. My comments were in response to those of K0HB who couldn't u