Hello. I believe that discussing whether NA or Caribean stations should get 3 points per QSO instead of two for intra-continent QSOs is okay. But it doesn't solve the biggest factor that cause inequi
Randy brought up the Marathon example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHkf21HVAU8 If 48-hour contesting inspires contesters to run, swim, ride their bikes, work out and eat right to feel better throu
There are things to prevent that from happening. In the case of pooled blood in the legs, compression socks, pants can help. Also standing up from the chair at regular intervals. Short walks inside t
Well. It is clear that those that have invested zillions in building a station with tons of aluminum will not be in favor of such change. But probably things are getting so hot in several aspects of
That's a good point. But if you do the math of calculating All Band scores based on distance you will be amazed at how equalizing 1 point per mile or kilometer is. 73 de LU5DX _______________________
Hi Al. The analysis you mention was done for the ARRL and it's sort of domestic. I've done the analysis in the past for CQ WW and it was really leveling at a world wide basis. Logging soft doesn't ne
This only touches big ham population centers. Offer that solution to VK/ZL, the rest of OC, SA, etc. They won't buy it. With all due preliminary analysis the name of the game is distance based scorin
Hello. Some thoughts on the CQ WW Observer program. A modification should be done to this rule by: Stating that an entrant for just the fact of entering the contest on a casual or full time manner ag
Do you really think the proposed solution is by far worse than the offense? This clowns have been ruining our hobby for years nows. Setting world records and diminishing the competition to a degree w
Hi John. Have you done sort of a market research to determine what would be the impact of a distance based scoring system. (distant + other peculiarities, like bands, geography etc). I received email
Hi Milt. We are in the process of re-scoring all the logs for CQ WW DX SSB/CW (past five years). In fact distance based scoring is by far the most leveling scoring system we can think of. You may say
Hello Brian. Thanks much for your note. LP QSOs will be assigned SP distance. It's impossible otherwise. We will probably end up publishing a parallel set of unofficial results based on distance calc
LOL. Nobody is trying to fix anything. Just make it even better for the rest of the world. Not only for zone 33/35 stations. It's pretty obvious why you don't want any changes. When you say you spent
I really hope at least some of you would agree that a revamp of the observer program is needed. There are scores that are really unexplainable. Hopefully cheaters will get disqualified (again). Vy 73
Ron. It's pretty obvious the score I am talking about. Take a look at the SOAB HP scores and you'll quickly realize who I am talking about. And his score is way too unexplainable because it is not li
The AEA MM3 Morse Machine, has a pretty good contest simulator too. It sort of "mimics" HF propagation based on the latitude and longitude you enter when setting in up. It was fun to use to train for
No need for contest cops. Whenever you find someone not CQing for like 10 minutes, like I did a couple of times, you (if you feel like) can tell the organizer about this lid and that's it. The rest i
Hi Randy: "...In CQ and ARRL contests, it is now allowed for a single op to transmit more than one signal at a time..." You mean when we enter SOAB or SOAB(A) in CQ WW we don't need the interlocking
Twenty years or so ago, I remember 9Y4VU, not sure if Jim TJ was operating from there was sending: 5nn 7nn. That really sounded like MUSIC! Vy 73, LU5DX ______________________________________________