" We are ham radio operators, communicators, not excommunicators! No reason to ban a mode!" This happens all of the time. In the ARRL 160 meter contest SSB and all digital modes are banned, as well a
What happens in those contests is the other guy doesn't send in a log? 73 John AF5CC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.con
There was one contest where I was punished twice for 1 busted call. I believe it was the 10 meter contest. I don't remember what call I busted, but it was something like K3WW which I copied as K2WW,
You could do a ULS license search on the FCC website where you just type in each prefix, and see how many licenses have been issued for that prefix. There are some Alaska prefixes which have never be
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
We already had this problem in the 2018 JUNE VHF contest. Awesome 6 meter openings for most of the contest, but everyone sat on 50.313 using FT8. The QRM was so bad that making contacts was slow goin
How dare you ask a question like that on the contesting reflector! It has nothing to do with FT8 :) 73 John W5TD (ex AF5CC) _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-
It is kind of ironic that as more and more rigs come out with bandscopes so you can see all of the activity on the band, more and more stations are content to sit on one frequency (50.313) for the en
I will probably try to do a few QSOs in the NAQP today. Have to do some work to get ready for the start of the fall semester at Cameron University on Monday as well. 73 John W5TD ____________________
I really enjoyed the powerpoint presentation as well. In terms of return on investment, what would be the best sized antenna to get, at what height, and which power level linear would be best? I mean
I received my August QST the other day, as the original one was returned to the ARRL for some reason and they sent another to me, and other than the poor coverage of the ARRL CW DX contest, I thought
MFJ makes an automatic antenna switch for this function: http://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=MFJ-1707B Only issue is that the beverage would still be going through the antenna tuner.
How many rookie operators are showing up in the CW version of the Rookie Roundup? That might give us a good indication of what the expect in the CW SS in years to come. 73 John W5TD _________________
Hi John, Thanks for letting us know. That is really sad news. I could always count on hearing a loud signal from Paul, usually on 20m. Somehow I missed him in the SS this past weekend. 73 John W5TD (
I was reading through the list of Silent Keys in the most recent QST and was saddened to see Don, W9IU in the list. I remember working him in quite a few contests and had to ask him if he was in Bloo
The definitive list for CQ zones is found here: http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/cq_awards/cq_waz_awards/cq_waz_list.html Parts of BY3 and BY9, and all of BY0 is in zone 23. Does anyone know the histo
In the RTTY RU, are all digital modes logged as DIG in the Cabrillo file? Or are their different identifiers for each mode in the contest? I can see RTTY being logged as RY, but not sure what the oth
Putting NFL and LAB as separate multipliers would really make a Clean Sweep difficult. Let's hope they never make VY1, VY0, and VE8 separate multipliers. 73 John W5TDD _______________________________
In the 10 meter and 160 contests each of the KH states (Hawaii) or territories (everything else in the Pacific) each count as separate multipliers, but in the SS they all count as one. Not sure I wou
I was thinking of this question a couple of weeks ago and now seems like the appropriate time to ask it: Has there ever been a year where a Clean Sweep was impossible because 1 or more multipliers di