Wow Maarten, What you say is really dangerous. There are loopholes everywhere in the rules. Rules require you to use certain level of output power to enter a category, but there is a loophlole, since
How can an M2 win over an MM. It is very simple actually. You only need to take the geographic factor into account. An MS in zone 33 or 35 can easily achieve a higher score than a full fledged MM in
Hi Mats, I don't think so. PJ2 or any country in zone 9 is not as favored as zone 33/35. At least during this phase of the solar cycle. It has been demonstrated that EF8M was able to run on 10 m like
Yes. Simplifying rather than adding more and more categories, most of which allow unfair participants to take advantage over those who play by the rules. 73, Martin LU5DX On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 9:07 AM,
Yes, and it also eliminates one of the many not so controllable -to say the least -, factors of our beloved so called radio sport. 73, Martin LU5DX On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 10:54 AM, john@kk9a.com john@kk
What's your point? Combining SOAB and SOAB(A) has nothing to do with comparing the highest scores in each category. It's about eliminating the possibility of taking even a very small unfair advantage
Hi, Does anyone know if CW-Skimmer works with Cloud-IQ out of the box, just like it did with SDR-IQ? Cloud-IQ The next chapter in #connected software defined radios. The Cloud-IQ offers two modes of
Hello Mark, I understand your point. In fact, I also enjoy entering SO without any assistance very much. After many years of entering assisted, I would say that I enjoy it even more than when using D
Again, personal preferences first. You will be able to keep entering contests in the way you want, even if categories are merged. No one will force to point and click for Qs. It makes sense to change
Hi Christian, I depends on how you look at it. According to you, we cannot eliminate one way of cheating because there are others... Does that make sense to you?? too. Otherwise your argument makes n
Actually not. I'm not trying to escape the answer. Power cheating if of a total different nature and it is a matter of infrastructure to prove that someone is cheating. In the case of unclaimed assis
Hi Ed, What I tried to say was that power cheating is detectable depending on the infrastructure you have for it. DX alerting abuse cannot be proved despite whatever infrastructure you have for it. P
Good try John, but... The sample is way to small and you don't provide any demographics. Without knowing any details, results are certainly biased if you try to make this a representation of what con
Hi Bob, I use a Steelseries APEX 350. It doesn't have Cherry MX switches, it is not wireless, but it has plenty of macro keys: a total of 88. But actually, since every key is programmable you can hav
Hello everyone, We would like to invite you all to the SA Sprint to be held on July 23rd, 2016 from 2100 to 2300 Z. It is a short two-hour contest, but hopefully it'll provide lots of fun. Several de
Hi Doug, With N1MM I usually use two PCs, two Morse Runner instances (one on each computer), and two keyboards. For just one computer, DXlog.net allows you to set it up really easy https://www.youtub
Hi Doug, I've just become aware that N1MM+ now supports two keyboards! This is great news, since you can use just one instance of N1MM avoiding additional interlocking hardware. 73, Martin LU5DX El 1
Hi guys, I've heard several comments of HQ stations having log syncing problems over the weekend during the IARU HF Championship. I wonder if a standard Log Coordination Protocol would be a good idea
Hello guys, I wonder if any of you have worked on extracting prefix information out of callsigns using T-SQL or any othe flavor of SQL language. I know it may seem trivial, but it is not. There seem