If >Amateur< radiosport requires this level of micromanagement, then it is no longer "amateur" but some twisted Dali-esque parody of the hobby. 73, de Hans, K0HB/K7 "Just a Boy and His Radio" I wonde
No Harry, If that 10m high dipole is located on a 100m high hill above flat environment at 20m ASL with good ground conductivity that dipole will always outperform the dipol at 2000m ASL, especially
I donīt see the difference to a qro station running an Emtron DX-4 or OM-3500 at full output. And how will you know before the contest started what stations should be tracked as you describe? Most of
I understand what you are trying to do and salute you for that. However, I don't think it's as easy as it might at first seem. Some things have already been mentioned, like location, near field, far
The Reverse Beacon Network spots and records signal strength of all stations that any of its contributors hears, and the data are retained indefinitely. For example, you can review all 1.7 million sp
This kind of thing really does reinforce my thought that we should just go to a MMOG ("Massively Multiplayer Online Game"), at least for the CW contests. Someday, the technology will be there for pho
Oh no. A contest that expects the whole world to have CAT of the rig (for the exact frequency). Does this mean that someone who logs on their PC with no rig control (or has an older rig with no CAT)
No need to imagine. It's already done - see: http://www.qsonet.com/ 73, /Jack de K3FIV _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.c
I think here is the time to combine the contest stations HFTAs with reversebeacon.net dB-info (signal strength) for power analyzing. Perhaps we will see something ... ;-) The future is for reversebea
Too much for what? I really doubt you can name a couple of calls who can pretend for top-three scores and whose stations do lack rig control. -- R8TX (ex RX9TX) http://r8tx.qrz.ru "I love those who y
The awful part is that they seem to have gotten a lot of members (or maybe that list on the website is inflated by free trial users, whether or not they went on to become subscribers. 73, Pete N4ZR T
Not so fast... For those of you who have never seen a skimmer operating, it does NOT give an absolute signal strength, it give an SNR value. Those can vary wildly based on the local noise, not to men
How about this RBN report of 86 db SNR, with 100 watts and an Inverted L!!!! W3LPL EI/W5GN 1839.0 CQ 86 DB 30 WPM 0623Z 30 JAN N4ZR pointed out that that could have been a much stronger signal in the
True, Dave, but I suspect that statistical analysis could be used, derived from very many observations over the course of a contest, to establish a high probability that a station was running 10 dB m
To translate SNR into absolute signal level it would be relatively straightforward and inexpensive to inject a signal into the receiver's front end from a calibrated signal source - say, -20 dBm - a
Perhaps someone would sacrifice their score to validate the idea that statistics work; operating alternate hours at high power and then low power and see if anyone can determine with certainty if it