Can we move this thread back to a discussion of something? Personally, I have no problem with continued development of skimmer, RBN, DX Cluster, et al. Just continue to require such uses in the assis
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
Very interesting discussion. I don't dispute Jose's end conclusions that Skimmer will continue to impact contesting and I am okay with it as long as those participating with it are competing amongst
The 10M contest is one of the few contests that has a Multi-Single class which only allows for one signal on at a time and has no Multi-2 or Multi-Multi category. Obviously, Multi-Multi doesn't make
All of the serious mult-ops have at least one, sometimes 2, receiving stations hunting for mults while they run anyway. The issue is in coordinating working the found mults, not in operating multiple
It doesn't really matter to me since I never use them.contest or no contest, but what exactly is the difference between a personal skimmer located in Europe (for a W/VE contester) and a European Skim
Unless everyone can use the remote receiver and then its okay... Glad I stick to simple unassisted. More fun...less fine print. Good Luck to all this weekend. Ed N1UR Dave, The pertinent part is: 3.
Doug, You sound like a sincere and level headed op from this post and thank you for the service you are providing to the ham radio community. Here are a couple of my opinions on the situation you des
I agree with the sentiment that exceptions for a particular zone to level the playing field is not in the best interest of contesting. However, I believe there is a rule change that could be in the i
The "growth" of RTTY contesting is indeed real, but it is coming from a very small base of 10 years ago. There were roughly 960 log submissions in 2002 and 1592 in 20010 in ARRL RTTY Roundup. Compare
A few comments on this topic: - I consider myself a potential top 3 low power contender but currently do not have software that puts the exact transmit frequency in the log, simply the band (14000 or
I am in favor of this change to rules/definition. Her would be my proposal? Clubs are defined as 275km circle or the Province/State/Country at the description of the contest sponsor based on active c
KU8E did a very interesting slice by geo. I was doing a similar look but wanted to compare it to the Sweepstakes Contest..an apparently unbroken contest that is already so fun that no changes need be
Doesn't all of this "level of the playing field" discussion actually lead to ultimately all contests being homogenized to be the same contest? After we allow W4s to take an advantage in ARRL DX based
A few comments on this post from someone who has been competitively low power contesting for about 15 years now. 99.9% of contesters are honest is probably close to true. If you figure 5,000 (just a
I found myself in the unusual position this weekend of being free this weekend as my wife is out of town. Normally, I only reserve the 6 majors for weekends plus a couple of floaters and WAE has neve
I agree with part of W5OV's statement. If they agreed to secrecy, they should be tied to it. However, if the group does disband and get re-built, it's the perfect time to change it to transparent. Pe
"The fact of the matter is that the complaining you hear comes primarily from people who 1) don't play nice in general, 2) have stpck equipment which does not lend itself to filtering adjacent QRM (
It is been stated a few times, and I agree with it, that the abuse of power can really only be solved by local clubs or operators observing and reporting and pressuring for discontinuance. However, o
I thought the practice was excellent where it was used. And I applaud the efforts. I heard about 5 examples and all were up maybe 1 or 2 and the piles were no worse than some other massive ones obser