Hi Milt: NO, NO, PLEASE NO! :-) I'm glad I got that out of my system. The "check" sounds like a number and is totally unexpected in the middle of the exchange. (I usually end up typing "6".) I prefer
Good Grief! What does a response "not in favor of KE3Q" mean, anyway? If he wins once, he should get out of the way so someone else can win? :-) Really? Rich is an excellent operator who seems to hav
Hi: I just checked the rules again, and I don't see that one for this contest. Where in the rules for the CQWW (2003) does it require you to sign a callsign that indicates your DXCC country? I checke
Hi David: Well, actually, around here the packet cluster nodes are maintained by active contesters and partially financed by the contesting club. The fact that they are on except during contests appe
Hello, all: "QSO B4 QRZ" mystifies me. Or, maybe, "B4 PJ2M" or "DUPE PJ2M" or whatever, which seems more efficient. Why would the run station EVER send this? Is the run station going to send QSO B4 a
[...] [...] Well, in the stations I operate at, PTT with CW typically 1) Prevents hot-switching the amplifier 2) Switches the receive audio to the non-transmitting radio automatically in both ears wh
Hello Jukka: In some contests, I enjoy competing without using the packet clusters. I do not support removing my ability to do that and to compete with stations who are also not using the packet clus
Hello, all: OK, this is how it is scored for the multiplier. How does the log checking software work? Am I going to lose the QSO (no penalty for just busting the exchange) if I log what the station s
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You mean making all of the single operators who use packet enter multi-operator categories, right? This was the way it was before "assisted". Maybe that isn't what you meant. The unmanageable pileups
Ok, well, we disagree then. I do not agree that packet is just another contesting tool, because other operators are helping you find multipliers and stations to work. It is fundamentally different th
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Hi Ted and everyone: I think I get more calls from people who don't know the rules of the contest, don't understand the scoring, and don't care than I do from people who legitimately need the multipl
Hi Rich: Ah, but in the US, we can't tell the zone from the callsign...a problem in IARU of course. Again, I'm still not convinced that we want to do anything to ENCOURAGE more same-country QSO's in
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