To those who are demanding a literal interpretation of the rule regarding the check in SS: be careful what you wish for, you may get it. Consider this IS a rule that governs ARRL contests: 3. General
Hi Sandy. I agree with your thoughts about needing sunspots, but.... That rule has so much vague verbiage that it is easy to poke a hole in it when trying to decide if it means that the QSO's between
Do you remember when you wished that it was easy to find a good clear QRG to run in SSCW? 73, de Hans, KØHB "Just a boy and his radio" _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest maili
I was thinking the same thing. The bands just don't sound as crowded as I remember them 20+ years ago. We sure miss all those 1x3 calls that used bugs and had been doing SS forever. Randy, K5ZD _____
I think with all the checks in the 40's and 50's I've been getting, probably a lot are like me and don't have the BIC we used to. I now know I couldn't stay in the chair for 24 hours any more. 73 Tom
I made zero contacts. First time in a long time. I made lots of FT8 contacts this weekend and watch some Football and worked on some outside projects. Very little motivation for SS. I guess I have
I blame FT8 73, Alan, K6SRZ I was thinking the same thing. The bands just don't sound as crowded as I remember them 20+ years ago. We sure miss all those 1x3 calls that used bugs and had been doing S
Maybe just my antenna is bad, but does activity on 80m seem really low? 73 John AF5CC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.co
Hi Randy, Thanks for the SS QSO. Noise wasn't too bad here on 80, but maybe my supposedly "new and improved" antenna isn't that improved. Did work a few on 80 but it seems in years past it was much m
You said, " I guess I have too much going on at the moment to be tied down for 24 hours." One of the great things about contesting is that you can spend as much or as little time as you want. I can a
It was Sunday.. for sure.. not so much on Saturday Have a great day, --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy "Actions speak louder than words" 1856 - Abraham Lincoln ________________________________ From: CQ-C
That's why I still LOVE the old format of the original Novice Roundup! You could do the whole time alotted period 24-30 hours? anyway. but you had 10 days to do it in! It required thought of when to
AF5CC asks: Especially Sunday evening there was a lot of thunderstorm noise from a storm running from midwest through mid-atlantic. For me it was worst on 40M around sundown and then later in the nig
I love CW contests with a passion but I might consider not doing CW SS FT anymore. I took just about all my off time in one stretch starting at 0800 Z so I could get a decent nights sleep because I
The main benefit I see from the one-Q per station rule is it democratizes SS unlike other contests. Here is what leads me to this conclusion: megabuck GA station is going to work out California on 20
That's nice Kelly but in the end most people just want to have fun and right now Sweepstakes isn't on Sunday. That shows with the lack of activity on Sunday. I can't think of another all-band contest
"The declining sunspots will make participation decrease even more than it has." I recently reviewed the past 60 years of CW Sweepstakes (since the mid-1950's) results in QST and the top number of Q'
I agree with the part about it being easier to find open spots on the bandmap to run. Its also a function of having panadapters that let you just point and click to the empty spots. However, there wa
I'm not in favor of turning Sweeps into a 30 hour NAQP. But I do see the utility of allowing more than one QSO. of course doing that will result in howls from various geographic areas that the playi
For those that do not read the National Contest Journal, K5ZD has a 40 year streak of making 1000+ QSO's in SS CW. After operating with brutally slow rates yesterday, I would say that is quite impres