I just looked at the results for the last three years for the ARRL's three big VHF contests and it looks like log submissions are pretty static with a change of like 20-40 logs up or down out of anyw
Yeah - I guess I "take the high road" but to me that makes it more interesting - knowing that I did not spend weeks before the contests setting up skeds or talking up unique QSOs on the local repeate
Yeah - I guess I "take the high road" but to me that makes it more interesting - knowing that I did not spend weeks before the contests setting up skeds or talking up unique QSOs on the local repeate
But - you can download all the scores now and put them into your favorite spreadsheet or database and do all the sorting and printing you want. This is way cool. -- George Fremin III - K5TR geoiii@kk
I thought that AA7A did a good writeup of this years June contest. I would suggest to anyone who would like to see something diffrent or indeed feel they can do a better writeup or have some ideas on
I really wish someone would give us some hard numbers of this "decline in contest activity". I have seen this thrown up several times on this list in the last year but I do not recall anyone providin
My guess would be that this was seen as self spotting. By using APRS you are sending your call and location out. This is not really much diffrent than getting on a packet DX spotting system and putti
I think there are several things going on with VHF log submissions. I think poor propagation tends to reduce log submissions by the causal guy - who might only make a handful of contacts during poor
The first year that a station made over 1000 qsos on 6m was in 1996. http://lists.contesting.com/_3830/1996-June/000754.html We had 1160 ast W5KFT that year. 1998 was the second time we did it. The i
I was not attempting to make a link bettween Es and high or low SSN. I was linking the fact that people like myself are more likely to operate the VHF contests during low sun spot years as opposed to
That might be true - in my quick glance at the numbers it would apper that the biggest gains were in the 1992-1995 time period for all three contests. I wonder why? But I wonder what would happen if
In these days of the Internet - it is quite easy to run a parallel scoring event for any contest. One such successful effort is the Collegiate Championship that is run with the ARRL Sweepstakes conte
I think it is pretty easy as Ed pointed out in the post. The NA Sprint contest has gone a step further recently by providing a way to enter your log online. http://www.ncjweb.com/manualsprintlog.php
This is not true. The details for preparing a Cabrillo log are here: http://www.arrl.org/contests/fileform.html Or more directly here: http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/ Here is what you would need t
I am not sure I understand how you get to this conclusion. The article that sparked this entire thread was written by W3ZZ the new and current editor of the "World Above 50 Mhz" coloumn in QST. He wa
I guess I get a diffrent version of QST than you guys do - mine all seem to have the "World Above 50 Mhz" in them - this is three pages of space *every* month devoted to VHF/UHF weak signal topics. I
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us some amazing rate during the opening on Saturday. Yes - that would be nice - but from a sheer QSO count this year was better than 1987 for us since we were able to get over 1000 contacts by midnig