Completely agree. What is it that ham radio has which is not available to any other citizen communication service anywhere? (Citizens Band and freebanders notwithstanding) The answer is a completely
missing something? There was a snafu with a small error in the PDF version. This has been fixed but won't be ready to go online until Tuesday when KX9X gets back to HQ from his DXpedition to FN45 in
It is important to note that "60 minutes" means (as far as I know) 60 consecutive "empty" clock minutes during which no QSO was logged. (Seconds are not considered - again, as far as I know.) This is
It has nothing to do with "the robot". if the mechanics are of interest, this is a consequence of how logs are (and must be) checked when there are no seconds in the time. The robot only checks to be
Opening up the team competition to be more than just combining scores would be very interesting. The software to allow multiple stations to interact as a "distributed multi-multi" already exists. Rem
Whatever the team theme/rules, all on-the-air behavior and all submitted QSO data must to comply with the sponsor's contest rules for the exchange and so forth. Messing up the sponsor's processes wou
Challenges are as old as contesting - the one with which I am best acquainted is the Pacific NW Traveling Trophy (http://www.wwdxc.org/operating/contesting/pacific-northwest-challenge-cup-rules.html)
Does anyone know if the Louisiana QSO Party will be active in 2014? The 2013 sponsors, W5YL, are not sponsoring the contest this coming year. I need to know for Contest Corral in QST and am not getti
Thanks for all the helpful responses - K5ER and the LA Contest Club are working out a date. The LA QSO Party lives! 73, Ward N0AX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing li
Good stuff from the Society of Midwest Contesters. Consider formulating and challenge and throwing down the gauntlet in your area! The NAQP club challenge between SMC, PVRC, and NCCC - 2014 involves
This seems quite do-able. Perhaps use the getscores system to display the team scores using some kind of pre-registration process to identify which SOA scores to add? It would be a great beta-test an
KL7YK will not be sponsoring the Alaska QSO Party in 2014 - does anyone know of a group or club considering it? 73, Ward N0AX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list C
In general, if a contest sponsor doesn't provide or support a particular category, there is no reason not to sponsor it yourself. Collect the entries yourself, wait for the scores to be published, an
Thank you to K0RC and W9WI for getting it right. Contesting - and amateur radio generally - exists to make contacts and exchange between stations. Cooperation is required - it is not optional. Not se
John KK9A - thank you for noticing I said "frequently". I don't mean everyone has to ID every time or that 3 QSOs is a magic limit and IDing on the 4th QSO is a DQ-able offense. There are lots of sce
Hi folks, Thanks to the efforts of Jeff K1TEO and Kelly VE4XT there are two new contest results articles available on the ARRL Contest Results web page (www.arrl.org/contest-results-articles). The Se
Well, let's just put up straw man arguments and knock them down, shall we? Did I petition the organizers? No. They changed the rules on their own in response to what they, as contest managers who de
I received a note about this 80 meter CW contest this weekend. 73, Ward N0AX Editor, ARRL Contest Corral - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Tesla Memorial HF Contest" - held on March, 08/09 2014. starting
The problem is not in the scoring system. The problem is that the competitors do not compete on the same field - a characteristic unique to radiosport AFAIK. WRTC is the closest thing we have to an
Exactly, Jack. Using an SDR with the current user-interface is like using a fancy Agilent spectrum analyzer as a communication receiver. Fabulous specs and operating controls galore but not very well