Since operating in Sweepstakes for the first time a few years ago and falling in love with this contest, I wondered - am I at a real disadvantage given that my check is 00 or ten dahs on CW? Finally
That's an interesting opinion, Richard. I do get asked quite a bit for a fill on my check, more often than on the number. I think Doug, W9WI, may be right on: I appreciate all the suggestions. I gue
Guy, As someone who played in RDXC 3 times from Pacific Northwest I can tell you that this contest can be fun and very frustrating. I agree with Steve N2IC, who pointed out this contest is very very
While the sunspots are still low and even the activity on this reflector seems down, I thought share some info, which I found interesting and somewhat related to contesting. As I was reading a magazi
I will be visiting Belgium (Brussels) next week (Oct 10 - 14) and wondering if any local contesters would like to get together. 73, Denis - K7GK P.S. Apologies for pseudo-spam. ______________________
... A related question is what is considered sufficient for completing the QSO, especially on CW? For example (say in CQWW CW): XX1XX: CQ TEST XX1XX XX1XX K7GK: K7GK XX1XX: K7GK 5NN 14 K7GK: R 5NN 3
I feel this is a rather "clever" question. But following the same line of thinking one might wonder why Eu stations spot each other using the DX cluster. If you take DX to mean distance, this doesn't
All this talk about packet cheating, public logs and christmas wishes made me wonder how hard would it be to write a small program that correlates (now public CQWW) logs and DX Cluster spots. Here is
Bruce, What about making similar subdivisions for North America, particularly in DX Contests? 73, Denis - K7GK -- _________________________________________________________________ Helping your favori
This years Pacific Northwest DX Convention, held on August 1st, 2nd and 3rd in Portland, Oregon by the Willamette Valley DX Club, might be of particular interest to the contest community. Speakers wi
This discussion about the call inside the SS exchange, in my mind, has broader implications, particularly for a certain upcoming big contest. I unconsciously appreciated hearing my call in the exchan
This is fantastic! Now, can the skimmer network be used to calculate the average time it takes for a CQ-ing station to ID? 73, Denis - K7GK> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:26:17 -0500> To: CQ-contest@conte
Not so. An unfortunate (?) side-effect of these rules is that the stations far from the main center of activity for this contest (read Europe) are at a further disadvantage. Whose log will get more
My argument is not about working weak signals, we all try our best. It's about the error rates of others when working loud or weak stations. A loud MA station's call/exchange will be busted less fre
Thank you for sharing your experience, Jim. I believe I can offer a smll tip based on my trip to J7 for CQWW in 2004. I had a golf bag with a tri-bander, mast and other bags with lots of other radio
I've been toying with the idea of a graphical log analysis tool ever since the logs have been made public by CQWW CC. A couple of years ago I even started working on a Windows program that does just
For those of us not too busy making QSOs this weekend, another webcam will be available for your viewing pleasure. You can watch Andy RM3F (UA3DPX) in Russia at http://znuki.ru/ua3dpx.php 73, Denis -
Fascinating stuff, Fabian, thanks for sharing. Just for fun I pulled out US top 20 from your raw scores and compared with the final top 20. CQWW Official Results 1 K1LZ............6,796,620 2 K5ZD/1.
Number of received logs is just one measure of popularity. Another measure is the number of QSOs made by the leaders. And here RDXC lags quite a bit behind ARRL DX and WPX, even taking into account t
Pete, The exact formula for the angle you described is atan((h_t - h_a)/d_f), where h_t is the height of the terrain in feet, h_a is the height of the antenna in feet and d_f is the distance in feet.