That implies that one can watch a spotting net but so long as you don't actually use a spot, you're "not really assisted". I seriously doubt that interpretation would fly with some contest sponsors.
The contest rules generally describe "assisted" as something like the above; one person (you, the operator) are performing ALL the work with your equipment to make contacts. The rules generally don't
it is contests You have to understand that in the CQWW DX contests in particular, when you call a station that's "serious" about the contest, some ops will get peeved at you and either not answer or,
Make certain that the bottles parked underneath the holes in the front and rear of your chair are clean BEFORE the contest 8-)))))))))))))))) Steve, K0XP _____________________________________________
I was one of those who got "bit" by your "NN". The problem was that you were too weak to actually hear the "NN"; and also, I just didn't expect anyone to be using cut numbers in the SS exchange; nev
Agreed. If this were to come to pass, I'd still use the year I was first licensed. It shouldn't be any question at all: the year the station was first licensed, is THE YEAR THE STATION WAS FIRST LIC
But what if you're a bunch of guys on an expedition using a special call? I'd submit in that case, it'd be the first year that the licensee of the special call, was first licensed. Did anyone ever fi
The "DX-cluster" is actually a CONTEST-spotting system. It began that way and has evolved that way although now, just about any "interesting" signal on the bands is spotted. In between the weekends,
Not sure if we're talking about exactly the same thing; but before packet, there were 2m phone spotters for multipliers in many clubs, both large and small. I'm sure that if we look long and hard eno
Actually, not too many years ago (5 to 10, maybe?), exactly that was done by some of the major NA contest clubs that had members with their own spotting nodes; the entire area spotting net would be d
Oh, Lord: spare me from such virtuality ;o\ ;o\ ;o\ OTOH, if all the super-contesters were on the web doing a virtual contest, that'd leave the bands quiet, wide open, and relatively uncrowded for we
Unrealistic for those of us without computer connection to our radio(s). And as several others have pointed out, sometimes a previously-good computer connection dies for whatever reason such as your
It's not merely contests; some DXpeditions also upload logs (although I don't know of any that have uploaded ALL the QSO data). The ongoing XF4 expedition claims they'll upload their logs to their we
That's what I've seen, and that's what I hope they do. But their announcements say they'll upload the log. I hope they don't go all the way, I need their DXCC credit ;o((((( Steve, K0XP _____________
Nope, not much difference at all. That's why the top LP scores generally wouldn't even break into the top 10 HP scores. Steve, K0XP _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
he was giving. Honesty in contesting perhaps :) As DX, you are to send your power level... that can obviously be in any language or format you choose. One thousand (spelled out, maybe in Spanish, Fre
Hold it, hold it: Rick, consider the possibility that the e-mail you received is NOT from whom it claimed, but someone else with a grudge, attempting to get you all hot under the collar. The thing to
I don't recall them doing so: 1000 was almost always sent as 1K, EXCEPT possibly Nose, KH6IJ, being the consumate contesting gentleman he was until his death, may have always sent 1000 (and still bea
Unless he was a multiplier, I would have given up after his third AK and simply sent NIL NIL NIL SRI and gone away. Maybe he would have gotten the message then, especially if I tried working him on