Hello, After all circus with few HQ station results in the last IARU contest the last information about HQ category in 2010 sounds destructive and have no future. For me, as a LY0HQ team member, and
Changing points like this can be very good or very bad... What if your own zone and country are Zero points and NO MULTIPLIER allocated for own Zone...?? Would this affect every competitor evenly ?
Uh, almost offtopic, but I feel this is connected. "everybody should equalize friend-spotting to self-spotting (and cease doing that)" I should have elaborated on this, whom do we spot in contests? A
Remi, it's no big deal, just everybody should equalize friend-spotting to self-spotting (and cease doing that), and stop advertising camapaingns "help your country HQ by giving points" - which is non
It's embarrasing how ARRL answered that way to a demand of a HQ, I don't know why, but it is clear that DL HQ made some tricks logging callsings ... But this is the way they do things, I'm of course
There are numerous problems here. I am a longtime reader and supporter of a website called Groklaw, which has been following the antics of a company called SCO. There is a lot of legal stuff there, b
Hi Trent, Well, to "reject" your own country radio amateurs from a possibility to work your ...HQ station is a bit out of Ham Spirit IMHO. Same idea I have had couple of years before when I started t
The visionary that I am, I already saw this coming long time ago: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-06/msg00373.html Of course the ARRL chose the easy way out by not steppin
Personally, I think the whole HQ thing has gotten out of hand in IARU. While the DA0HQ incident is not completely related, if a change is about to be made to the contest concerning HQ stations, it sh
Yes, that right !!! This is a very interesting view point. Any one can take a look to the AO8HQ and DA0HQ logs and cluster spots. DL´s can operate low bands (40 and 80) at mid day, and AO8 station on
Thanks Tom, VE3CX, for a clear headed analysis instead of all the Sturm und Drang that has been raging. It sounds like politics, (not just U.S., but worldwide), all hot air and not much hard facts. T
Yes. I have read several comments from HQ station operators who are upset that the ARRL will no longer be checking their logs or printing their results. And as a result they are upset that their year
I feel the only way forward with the category if it is to be externally managed is ZERO points from ones own country (perhaps multiplier credit only) and a reduction to a "normal" Multi Multi defini
You can not regulate what non-participants do in a contest. David Robbins K1TTT e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net web: http://www.k1ttt.net AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net __________
What I see as one possible reason for all that trouble is the fact that the rules for the IARU WM do not clearly show what is just hidden in the ARRL contest rules: Extract: 3.3. An operator may not
You are correct ... you can not regulate what non-participants do in a contest. However I am confused on what effect you feel non-participants have on the results of a contest. If they don't particip
finaly one good post....!!!! 73s Braco _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
Casual operators do not send in logs and as such can not be bound to the rules as participants are. Indeed many casual operators that call you to give you points may not even know where to find the r
So you meant to say 'You can not regulate what CASUAL OPERATORS do in a contest.' If you are a non-participant you obviously do not operate in the contest. Wrong choice of words on your part. Doug I'
I consider participants those who actively enter the contest and usually send in logs. All the others are probably not participating in the contest, they are just there for some other reason. David R