Hello Kirk et al, I feel a misunderstanding about "competitor friendly contesting". It should not be about more wallpapers or watering down. My point is the better adaptation of contesting to the rea
I respect Ed and Kirk's contesting skills and acumen highly. I also think they are really nice guys, too! But I strongly disagree with their analogies and conclusions. In a marathon, or race of any k
I think Ward Silver (N0AX) posted a thought on this some time ago. I think it is a good one. Why not create a contest-in-a-contest? I bet if you ask Bruce Horn really nicely he might create a categor
K4RO Kirk Pickering wrote: "Over the last few years I've been starting to see the light" Not too much that I read or see, causes me to do a "self evaluation", but the presentation by Jay, WS7I, "Ten
Thanks Gerry. I understand your point of view and respect it. It would seem that 3830 is somewhat addressing your interest in comparing "apples to apples" from a time standpoint. I remember Ward Silv
Several years ago, two other guys and I publicly proposed a test of a "24-Hour Contest Challenge". The idea was to allow entrants to one of the big DX contests, if they wished, also to submit scores
"contest within a contest" approach. This idea was proposed by in Feb 1, 2003 see http://www.contesting.com/survey/93 and then Pete, N4ZR, and Mike, N2MG, wrote an article about "The 24 Hour Contest
That link didn't work but http://www.rttycontesting.com/dayton03/ does. Click on the WS7I.html link. Netscape 7.1 doesn't work but IE Explorer 6.0 does. 73, Jim VE7FO ________________________________
Pete A terrific idea, but probably doomed to fail from the start. I'm not sure what the "my sandbox" syndrome is ( common language??), but perhaps this is the same as N.I.H, being not invented here?
Russian DX is a great contest and becoming bigger and better every year; IOTA and IARU are also 24 hour only events and both attract plenty of activity. I realise that the first two of these clearly