DXing and grid chasing is different from contesting I would argue. In my experience most of my contesting experience has been part of a rover team. FT8 has changed the dynamic some, but we've found t
I hope you are right about people realizing that CW and SSB are more productive on contests. Last year's June VHF contest was an absolute mess. Almost everyone sat on FT8 with very little on CW and S
A close friend is an avid 160m DXer. We were discussing the impact of FT8 on 160m. He has worked several new countries using FT8 this past season.But he did say that one of the biggest problems are
VERY different out west. FWIW, I have ZERO interest in grid-circling (which I view as an abortion) and multi-band pursuits. I'm an HF contester -- I find VHF contests beyond boring, and use them as n
Author: K3TN via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 10:44:50 +0000 (UTC)
I've been participating in the FT4 testing, and I'll be doing a talk at Dayton on the Future of FT8 (and FT4) in Contesting at the Digital Contest Forum on Friday May 17th at 1015 at Dayton/Xenia. I
There is a difference between making two or three CQs on the 6m calling frequency when there is absolutely no stations heard on the band and calling there when the band is open. Similar to the DX win
Jim, Not working them for whatever reason is your prerogative. But working them and then deleting them, causing them a penalty for no fault of there own is actually clear unsportsmanlike conduct and
Making QSOs on a calling frequency is a fault and unsportwmanlike. PERIOD. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.
Back many years ago when computer logging first came on the scene, W3ZZ and I and a number of other contesters were talking about it. We quickly got into the idea of automatic logging and contesting
What's the difference between using N1MM+ Logger with needed mults turned red along with GRITTY with Bayesian decoding vs something like FT4? It seems to me that the main difference is the time sync
I agree, please keep FT? contests separate from RTTY. Unlike FT?, RTTY decoders are not perfect. To do well a RTTY operator needs to quickly look at multiple decoders to determine what the callsign a
The fundamental reason for FTx needing it's own contest format is that it's a fixed rate which is set by software. The exchanges are essentially synchronous and slaved to a common clock. So if ops
I don't have a dog in this fight, but as an observer your argument seems pretty fallacious to me. If somebody managed to come up with a RTTY decoder that was much more effective at decoding I sincer
Hi John, "I''ve talked with ARRL and CQ contest sponsors" Is it what is called Lobbing ?... By the way, for the benefit of who, what... ? It would be interesting to know it;-) 73 de Dimitri F4DSK En
Good summary, fully agree. 73 de Dimitri F4DSK Envoyé depuis mon smartphone Samsung Galaxy.-- Message d'origine --De : Jeff Blaine <KeepWalking188@ac0c.com> Date : 02/05/2019 06:17 (GMT+01:00) À : c
Author: Roger Parsons via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 14:41:59 +0000 (UTC)
Making QSOs on a calling frequency is a fault and unsportwmanlike. PERIOD. 73, Jim K9YC Agreed, but two wrongs rarely make a right. 73 Roger VE3ZI _______________________________________________ CQ-C
Jim: A few years ago, 2M was open from NJ to MN. A local here in NJ was working guys one after another on the calling freq. Then, I heard 2 guys in MN on the calling freq complaining that the frequen
Dimitri: Yes, I understand all the FT8/4 signals are on different frequencies, but the radio is set to the FT8 passband frequency and we see all the stations within the passband, and the decoder deco
Hey guys n' gals, I am not against FT# contesting, but I certainly won't pretend to understand it. (nor am I a Luddite) IMO, if you remove too much of the human element from the picture, the 'rush',
In the beginning, there were people. And people raced on foot. And then man domesticated the animal, and raced that. And then man got creative, making cars, planes, boats, trains, rockets, and so on