VE8EV has a contest blog that he updates after most contests he is active in. You can find it here: http://ve8ev.blogspot.com/ It has more details about the SS CW operation. Tree N6TR _______________
Encouraging activity is a good thing. Encouraging them to work people is a great thing. I think that is the key. If these people all ended up working the same six club members, then it would start lo
Two ways to look at this: The contest is 48 hours (or 24) long. If you could operate that extra minute, it would be 48 hours and one minute long. If you add some zeros to the times, it becomes more
The results from the October PreStew have been posted. You can find them here: http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html The "BIG" Stew is coming up in 8 days. You can also find the rules on that same page
Only one week to go before the next Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge. There are still a few plaques that have not been snatched up with sponsors. You can see the list here: http://web.jzap.com/k
Women, Men and Others of the Contesting Realm, In less than 24 hours, the 14th Stew Perrry TopBand DX Challenge sponsored by the Boring people in Oregon will be filling the 160 meter band. We have ar
An easy way to enter your Stew Perry log is to use the WA7BNM web based Cabrillo log tool. You can find it here (page down to the 2009 Stew Perry near the bottom of the page). http://www.b4h.net/cabf
K2DSL asks: This is an issue I have come up against a number of times. On the surface, it kind of seems like a QSO logged on a different band should be counted. However, I will argue the right thing
I guess I would say that all contests are a contest of skill and accuracy. enough to lose much sleep over. It's a fun one to talk about in thoery. Log checking isn't a perfect science. At some point,
If someone came to me and asked if an SS log could be accepted without any band information - I would probably say "sure - why not?". It has no real bearing on the contest. In a contest where you get
Well then - it's probably a good thing my log format didn't take off then. Tree N6TR/7 near Boring _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com ht
Art, K3KU asks: This feels like the slippery slope concept to me. "Call history files" (aka SCP) is a tool most people are okay using. Some logging software (mine included) allows you to create datab
Next weekend is the end of the log submission period for the Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge. In years past, we have accepted logs that came in before the log checking process was started (typi
Not sure if you sent in the log or not? You can now check at our new logs received page. It will also show you the power level for all of the logs received. You can find the link to it from the main
Is this where the game is headed? Tree N6TR _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
The results of the 2009 Stew Perry have been posted. You can find them at http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html The dates for the next event have been chosen. I realize there isn't a "best" date for ev
The CW Sprint results are now available at: http://www.ncjweb.com/sprintcwprelim.php Congrats to N5KO on his first victory. Tree N6TR _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailin
I have been using a K3 now since the IARU contest in 2007. I sent it back into the shop just before the ARRL DX CW contest to get the beta hardware upgraded to production and ended up operating the A
The answer is simple. I check the logs for the IARU contest. How do I know what these stations sent? I have lots of information to determine that. I have the data in all of the received logs. In the
W9WI wonders: There is a long history of successful attempts to CQ and S&P on the same band. I know at least one multi-multi back in the 70's had the ability to split up 20CW into two sections and le