Dear fellow contesters, As some of you have noticed, project COSTA is now QScope.org and we have reached a significant milestone with version 1.00. Thanks to many beta testers who offered their assis
John, The best location is Cyprus. And they were indeed many big operations from there. I think the reason for not having big operations from TA is more related to legal reasons. Perhaps they are not
Hi, Just a short message about QScope because two new features may interest some of you. The first is the usage of Country-Files (cty.dat) information by AD1C to do "re-processing" of the logs and ad
Hi, While I agree we have to make contesting more attractive for the new generations who are used to "instant results, instant satisfaction" (or frustration), this could be difficult to achieve for r
Hi, As a TS-590s owner, I second this. TS-590s ergonomic is great. Default settings are not perfect but easy to adjust. The manual is well written and logically structured. The trickiest part to use
Hi fellow contesters, While some are talking about unfairness between east and west coast, or is Cap Verde a better place than Aruba for winning the CQ WW, some of us who live far from populated plac
Hi Martin, I don't we need to go as far as the gridsquare : - first if the participant does not send log it is hard to guess accurately - second as many people do, I think that HF QSO "difficulty" is
Hi John, I think we all agree on that. We need to find new contesters (and new HAMs). That goes on pair with restructuring the scoring system in my mind. This is how I characterized young people : -
I like Ken analysis of "a game". However I don't see this as incompatible with radio contesting (which really is a game as analyzed by Jack K3VIF, not a contest except for WRTC). - We have some "Soci
Hi Mark, I like the idea of teams spread over several continents working in turns. Yan. -- Yannick DEVOS - XV4Y http://xv4y.radioclub.asia/ http://varc.radioclub.asia/ Le 3 déc. 2013 à 08:45, cq-cont
Mike, I like this idea too. For me, "Working a station on 3 bands" double the points and "Working on 5 bands" triple the points could be good too. Or adding some kind of sprint : if you "work 50 DXCC
Dave, You should try an online emulator like this one : http://scriptedamigaemulator.net/ However it seems that the sound is getting distorted with CPU load... don't know how DrDX will react to it. 7
Hi, I agree with the new rule. It's a competition, and some are disposed to have an unsportsmanlike conduct when in the fire of the action. The role of the organizer is to guarantee fairness between
I agree Peter. Charlie was complaining about having hard time contesting from Thailand. Now I understand why... 73 from Xenon Vercintegorix 2+2 Yukulélé, Yan. -- Yannick DEVOS - XV4Y http://xv4y.radi
Yes, some multi-one stations are no simple human beings like us. They are BIG-GUNS and they have the power to control the time, your time more precisely. 73, Yan. -- Yannick DEVOS - XV4Y http://xv4y.
Hi Shelby, Re-reading my message it is not clear that it was just a joke with a big smile while writing. Even if I found it irritating while S&P, I am not complaining about it. Like you say, I just n
Well while waiting for the doctor I usually have to read 6 years old magazines whose main purpose is to share the germs of 1000 patients who touch them before me. In front of the radio I can surf the
Hi, I am answering below. 73, Yan. -- Yannick DEVOS - XV4Y http://xv4y.radioclub.asia/ http://varc.radioclub.asia/ Le 9 févr. 2014 à 08:37, cq-contest-request@contesting.com a écrit : The doctors wit
Hi Dale, Well, DXKeeper is free and has a very good integration with LotW. I use N1MM for actually logging the QSOs at my operating position, but transfer them to DXKeeper for all the "log managing"
Hi Dave, Yes I do the same, I upload to eQSL but don't use it myself. I have nothing against eQSL "administrators" and it seems they're doing a good job, however the fact that matching is not "blind"