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181. [CQ-Contest] ARRL Removes Restrictions on 146.52 in all ARRL VHF contests (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:43:21 -0500
Just received from Dan Henderson, N1ND at HQ. 73, Ward N0AX At its July 16 meeting, the Programs and Services Committee unanimously accepted and approved a recommendation from its VHF and Above Revit
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2015-10/msg00131.html (8,644 bytes)

182. [CQ-Contest] Distance-Based Ranking (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:15:36 -0600
Distance-based scoring really won't work for bands on which there is a skip zone. This is pretty well understood and precludes using it for bands from 40 through 6 meters. And you have to account for
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2015-11/msg00157.html (8,312 bytes)

183. Re: [CQ-Contest] Distance-Based Ranking (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:11:48 -0600
Easy to say, hard to specify. I would certainly like to see a scoring system that works across a useful fraction of the world's countries and contest populations. And that does not require complex c
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2015-11/msg00173.html (10,948 bytes)

184. Re: [CQ-Contest] Distance-Based Ranking (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:00:50 -0600
the competition between clubs and teams. almost anywhere to be competitive in SS, NAQP and Sprint. Hear, hear! Club and team competition is just terrific and really gets the juices flowing. The Paci
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2015-11/msg00181.html (9,710 bytes)

185. Re: [CQ-Contest] Distance-Based Ranking (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:25:12 -0600
much aerodynamics You mean, "a plane that crashes a lot"? :-) Just kidding... We have to be careful not to turn the current game of skill into a game of chance. Any successful game of skill has to h
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2015-11/msg00199.html (12,522 bytes)

186. Re: [CQ-Contest] Why SuperCheckPartial makes you assisted (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 07:43:39 -0600
Paul is correct. Read the rules of the category. The word "assisted" leads to a multi-annual festival of confusion about whether assistance makes you Assisted. It does not. The problem is in the choi
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2015-11/msg00321.html (10,295 bytes)

187. Re: [CQ-Contest] Why SuperCheckPartial makes you assisted (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:31:53 -0600
I understand but I did not use the word "just" - meaning that is the only distinction. The primary distinction is what crosses the boundary but the sponsors can add any other criteria they want, such
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2015-11/msg00334.html (9,360 bytes)

188. [CQ-Contest] CW Rookie Roundup Today (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:27:22 -0600
arrl.org/rookie-roundup 1800 to 2359 today! Look for rookies calling CQ RR on the "50s" - 50 kHz above the band edge. If a non-rookie calls CQ, call CQ R. Exchange is name, check (like in Sweepstakes
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2015-12/msg00478.html (6,952 bytes)

189. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contesting Popularity (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 13:41:33 -0600
There is a lot of activity on the digital modes just about all the time. You can tune upwards from 14.070 and hear a lot of signals, for example. PSK31 is very popular because it's easy, free (as far
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2015-12/msg00517.html (8,574 bytes)

190. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest preparation and morals! (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:22:54 -0600
Well, I know some contesters are known to keep a rather large specimen jug handy throughout the event. 73, Ward N0AX Perhaps the time has come where any serious contester (those who compete for an aw
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2016-03/msg00132.html (7,763 bytes)

191. Re: [CQ-Contest] Coax Stubs for SO2R (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 07:43:38 -0500
might be one tale to tell I will think about this from the perspective of how a person might do an experiment to demonstrate the concept. I've already added material on stub placement to both the An
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2016-07/msg00096.html (8,794 bytes)

192. Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW Committee Restructured (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 11:52:46 -0500
Yet observe an not Asia And there we have most of a very workable solution - compete regionally, report regionally, recognize regionally. Thanks, Prasad. Trying to come up with some kind of a comple
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2016-07/msg00175.html (10,149 bytes)

193. Re: [CQ-Contest] New hamvention location (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 10:02:37 -0500
I kinda like the idea of a Flea Barn, myself... 73, Ward N0AX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/li
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2016-08/msg00022.html (8,514 bytes)

194. Re: [CQ-Contest] How to start a run (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 10:06:21 -0500
Another thing for the smaller station to consider is when it is practical to start a run. You might not be loud enough, the band might not be open enough, there might be too much QRM, etc. Start by d
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2016-08/msg00205.html (9,572 bytes)

195. Re: [CQ-Contest] If you could only have one simple antenna...? (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 10:55:35 -0500
See my Feb 2014 QST Hands-On Radio column about the Extended Double Zepp. It will work as an EDZ on 20 and 15 for sure and can be loaded up on 80-10 with a tuner, maybe 160 as well. To broaden the pa
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2016-08/msg00206.html (8,922 bytes)

196. [CQ-Contest] RM11708 and the Future (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:43:49 -0500
First, I do agree with N9NB that there needs to be a bandwidth limit in the amateur bands - this has been confirmed by the FCC in numerous communications and opinions about overly-wide phone signals
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2016-08/msg00225.html (14,335 bytes)

197. Re: [CQ-Contest] RM11708 and the Future (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 08:25:50 -0500
By any objective measure, I am probably a certified geezer, too :-) I see CW as a viable, useful mode - regardless of whether it's fun or not - for a variety of things. It's simple to build CW rigs,
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2016-08/msg00238.html (11,131 bytes)

198. Re: [CQ-Contest] RM11708 and the Future (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 08:28:50 -0500
And if you have not had a CW QSO ruined by a RTTY station opening up on your channel, you have not spent much time running CW. As I said in 2005, most problems have behavior as their root, not bandwi
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2016-08/msg00239.html (8,590 bytes)

199. Re: [CQ-Contest] RM11708 and the Future (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:19:52 -0500
arrl - increase the bottom line dollars in the coffers!! It is a persistent canard that the ARRL is somehow "all about the dollars." (Note - I am not ARRL staff, just a Life Member who happens to wr
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2016-08/msg00247.html (10,342 bytes)

200. Re: [CQ-Contest] RM11708 and the Future (score: 1)
Author: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:16:03 -0500
There are a lot of things in ham radio that don't particularly float my boat but I am willing to consider the use of our allocations by licensed amateurs to be "ham radio." I don't want to start off
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2016-08/msg00259.html (9,951 bytes)


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