Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 01:50:27 +0000
Honestly Ron. It sounds like a deal made by good ol boys in a cigar smoke filled room in the 70s that is not only no longer relevant today but was never agreed to but from an elitist group that doesn
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 01:58:47 +0000
Agreed. So let the spectrum be used for all. Far better than the dead silence we hear often on these bands. Ed N1UR It was not. It was not the equivalent of a "deal" made in a "cigar smoke filled roo
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 02:11:00 +0000
Dave, Make sure we remember that when 3Y0 shows up on 30M. Ed N1UR The rules governing each of our FCC licenses explicitly require that, on 60 and 30 meters, we cause no interference to authorized no
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 16:30:53 +0000
Some have mentioned that this nothing new. I beg to differ. I almost always take a look at my spots after a contest. I can count on one hand in 10 years how many I felt were spoofed and NONE were spo
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 20:13:21 +0000
When you say he had 94 mor multipliers than you on 10M.....since I only had a total of 95 multipliers on 10M and I did pretty well in the contest, how many multipliers total did you and your friend g
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 17:35:19 +0000
It doesn't have to be just an in band multi op lock out. Its really any lock out - in band or other band on MS. Or it can be SO2R and the run frequency picked up again. Based on the number of times i
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 12:01:00 +0000
I saw today that this change was announced in the ARRL Contests starting in Jan 1. The Low Power Category will be changed from 150W output to 100W output. On a contest to contest basis, this has no s
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:03:16 +0000
Ha - so if its not a contest, why mention it when you are changing the Low Power Rule for contests? And if it is a contest, why is it an exception? "cue the Twilight zone music here" Ed N1UR Because
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:54:13 +0000
I believe it was - back in the 60s and 70s - however it changed to 150W output power sometime by 1980 or so and has been that ever since, by my remembrance. Ed N1UR Wasn't the original rule for 150w
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 15:25:08 +0000
If maximum output power allowed was 150W, does it matter if someone with a K1 is using an amp to get from 5w to 150W or someone using an FT2000 is using an amp to get from 100 to 150W? 150W is 150W.
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:24:23 +0000
N2IC said "The guys who will be impacted the most are the serious, unassisted, SSB contesters. They need the casual S&P guys to find them. But with self spotting, the casual guys will just click on t
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 17:34:08 +0000
Instead of asking stations that are not assisted to pull the weight of spotting, why isn't this burden on the assisted stations? They, after all, are the beneficiaries of all the other people who spo
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 21:25:51 +0000
I was thinking this was kicking in for ARRL tests for the Unlimited category. Is that right? Was it done commonly in SS this weekend and how did it work out? Ed N1UR _________________________________
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:54:48 +0000
Actually John, (KK9A), those are old rules. As of June this year, the following applies. New Rules in effect for all ARRL HF Contests in June Starting with the ARRL International Digital Contest, in
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:26:57 +0000
Tim, I don't disagree with your confusion, which is why I asked the question. There was a CLEAR announcement by the ARRL that after June 2022, self spotting, streaming, social media was all going to
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 11:18:54 +0000
I am not sure if any of you outside of the WRTC teams are following what's going on with WRTC but its not pretty. Between the social engineering of rules to turn the even into a EU "interest in conte
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2023 17:26:19 +0000
Actually, for whatever reason, its only the Single Band Records. And since the self spotting change didn't occur until the 2023 contest series, it wouldn't be for that reason. Looks like a computer e
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 17:04:37 +0000
I experimented with this in ARRL CW. The spots didn't add much vs the skimmer spots automatically generated. However I did find that DX Summit seemed to only allow 1 spot per 60 mins unless you chang
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 22:25:14 +0000
I am interested to hear the opinion of the DX side on this topic. I was trying to self-spot a number of times without much success. I tried on DX Summit. The spot was posted. I tried on DX Watch. The