Will, I for one certainly did enjoy. It would take a day just to write captions and name those fine/fit lookin' fellers in all those photographs.! One thing for certain is that it illustrates, and b
I wish to convey my grateful thanks to the WRTC committee for this award received in the mail today. It certainly is a fine and unique trophy, adorned with a ribbon brightly coloured in the colours o
In that case Andy you have made political decision and any matters of compensation for your time and expense lie solely with yourself, not the ham community or contest organisers. As you well know ou
Andy, Crimea is an emotive subject. The many previous posts do illustrate that, much as we would like to do so, our hobby cannot be totally disassociated from politics, we cannot completely disregard
As I write this the only mails in response to this change of direction by CQ Organisation have been supportive of their new stance. As my mails to this reflector can often be delayed by up to several
I don' know about 'enjoy' but do agree that the IOTA comments strike the right note. I have had a few PM's and, co-incidently, I did comment to a couple of them that I didn't expect CQ to 'cave in' s
I am not an ARRL member so my comments will probably be regarded as superfluous but I shall make them anyway. What is the rationale behind this recommendation? 1 - Everbody cheats. 2 - ARRL thinks th
Matts, On the one hand you are extolling the virtues of RDXC yet it embraces Assisted and Non Assisted as one class which is the very aspect which you are disputing with the DARC qualifying rules. I
Add to that the $1000's needed to add a new rig, auto tune amp, Top of the range SDR which will simultaneously display screens for all of the six bands to display Skimmer/ RBN etc spots with additio
Ernie,When I perceive that a caller is either a novice, or such as yourself an op who is using mechanical assistance then I make an effort to assist by switching over to the hand keyer, especially wh
Previous WRTC events have come and gone without controversy or serious dissent regarding the rules. In this matter of WRTC 2018, to borrow an often heard phrase from old Laurel & Hardy (for those wh
Chris, As one who criticised your committees decision to merge the assisted and unassisted classes for single ops on this Forum, I applaud your decision to now reverse that.decision - thank you. Whi
The various threads on this issue have been enlightening in the number of disparate views expressed. The major question is . Do we wish to have our contests Policed or not? The inescapable fact is t
For sure we don't need 3 guesses as to the major talking point among contesters at Dayton this weekend. It is a safe bet that UT5UGR will not be present there and we are most unlikely to have any fur
Stan & Mats, Let us be quite clear, Dim's actions were no mistake but a pre-meditated and planned deception knowing the risks involved if discovered.A public apology would be the right thing to do
- - - I am really puzzled and exasperated by this continued debate as to what constitutes assistance. What is there not to understand? Let's get back to basics. Our hobby is ham radio, radio being th
We have adapted to changes and introduced an 'Assisted Class' why cannot so many operators just accept and adapt to that without wishing to remain as SOAB blurring edges and stretching the envelope w
Surely it is opinions on interpretations that need to eradicated if we are ever to achieve clearly defined and understandable rules? I stand by what I said in that radio contesting commenced as an a
Thanks William, we have been waiting for these results. The link does work after removing the full stop at the tail. 73 Brian 5B4AIZ / C4Z. From: "Wilhelm, Matthew, W1MSW" <w1msw@arrl.org> To: "cq-c
To be fair to Charley, who kicked off this thread, he did not actually cite the CQ Contests as to where/when his high 'Unique' count occurred. As attested by Jorma & John there is no way such a high