I agree with that to a point. At some point you end up too far north and the auroral oval starts to eat away at signal strengths much of the time. Of course, in CQWW the stations to the north seemed
Not accurate. ARRL contest results going back to January 1997 are published on-line and available to anyone at: http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/ ARRL members can see the most recent results on-l
In the ARRL 10m contest list of logs received, N1ND noted: "Logs listed as checklogs either designated themselves as such, did not submit usable log files, or did not provide sufficient information i
Perhaps for use by VHF/UHF contesters out there - ARRL June VHF Contest this next weekend... -- Tom/K1KI -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-con
Looks like the 2000 WRTC video is available via the ARRL bookstore in VHS format or on CD: http://www.arrl.org/catalog/?item=NO-WR -- Tom == e-mail: k1ki@arrl.org ARRL New England Division Director h
Someone mentioned that the discussion about ARRL wasn't all that related to cq-contest. I generally agree but wanted to respond to one of the recent messages. (see notes below) -- Tom I think restric
The ARRL Board's Membership Services Committee has had this item on the agenda to work on this year (continued from last year). As Wayne/N7NG, mentioned in a message on cq-contest last week, the disc
I think it will not be a "fun time" when we get to the point where HF operating is like repeater coordination. In repeater coordination (in congested areas) there are no available frequencies. They'r
So I suppose anyone legally running over 999 watts can't participate or can't be honest about his/her power? I know that there has never been anyone disqualified in the ARRL DX Contests because they
From an item in the ARRL Web Extra (members only web page): Contest Yearbook discontinued: The ARRL Contest Yearbook has been discontinued. Anyone needing contest rules, forms, or other information o
So I suppose anyone legally running over 999 watts can't participate or can't be honest about his/her power? I know that there has never been anyone disqualified in the ARRL DX Contests because they
From an item in the ARRL Web Extra (members only web page): Contest Yearbook discontinued: The ARRL Contest Yearbook has been discontinued. Anyone needing contest rules, forms, or other information o
Ron - Why don't we put this one to bed for a while. I think EVERYONE I heard on the USA side failed to follow the rules about their exchange, if you want to split hairs on what the wording means. (Yo
Try the IARU web pages -- www.iaru.org (or a link from the ARRL home page) It has listings of IARU society officers, many with e-mail addresses, and websites. 73 Tom -- -- e-mail: frenaye@pcnet.com Y
My take on this is that the people penalized the most for logging 599ATT instead of 599100 are those who are contest "newbies" for the most part. It isn't top scorers, and it isn't those with several
My take on this is that the people penalized the most for logging 599ATT instead of 599100 are those who are contest "newbies" for the most part. It isn't top scorers, and it isn't those with several
Interesting idea! Not sure how far you'll get because operator planning is a pretty inexact science. Before MM efforts here I usually start by creating a spreadsheet that has hours down the columns a
In case you need a bigger contest fix than the NCJ CW Sprint this weekend, don't forget the New Hampshire and Vermont QSO Parties. Both go for 48 hours - 0000Z Feb 7th until 2359Z on February 8th. Ru
ARRL Sweepstakes High Claimed Scores were posted on the ARRL web site this week. http://www.arrl.org/contests/claimed/ 73 Tom -- E-mail: frenaye@pcnet.com Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box 386, West Suffiel