Yes, there are lots of things that "not ego-centered ops" can do to ease the life of other (less experienced) contesters... For instance, they may sign .../6 to make sure that others copy the "CA" co
But there IS a penalty. The QSO is being removed from the LOG of the station who copied either the call or the exchange wrong.. Not sure about the ARRL, but CQ also removes 3 times same QSO points as
So, I guess now everybody slows down in RDXC... :-) :-) Yuri Best way to slow some of these ops down is to implement scoring that requires both sides copy all the information correctly for the QSO to
Nobody did that research and comparison. So I tend to disagree. Yuri Well the fast guys lose points if they don't. Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest maili
Hi Al. Nice to hear from you. What is the "other way"? QSY is THE ONLY way I know. Once, Tom 8P5A was spotted as AP5A on SSB. He tried real hard to ID like 3 times per QSO, but finally the only way t
Igor, maybe you can share with us your technique to make sure that the other party has copied (and logged!) you call correctly? It's something like asking after QSO - "Did you copy and LOG my call as
I'm absolutely sure it was an unfortunate mistake by OZ0J. Otherwise it's a worms can opener. Yuri VE3DZ --Original Message-- From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Hi Mats. Would you agree that in satiation like this International Law and common sense should prevail? We all know that some part of Donetsk and Lugansk currently HAS TO live under pro-Russian separ
Great question, Ken. Was wondering myself... Yuri VE3DZ Maybe Im missing something here. If the CQWW committee needed to hear my transmitted signal, they had access to full-band, SDR recordings made
Hi, Is anybody coming to FHN from Frankfurt area on Thursday afternoon and returning on Sunday morning /early afternoon? Before I try to arrange a car rent for myself, I'd like to know if someone wou
Hello Jan. Are you receiving my messages? E-mailed you 2 or 3 times already, but never received a reply. Thank you. Yuri VE3DZ (currently /UT) On 7/6/2017 3:18 AM, Jan Paleek wrote: Hello Yuri, i am
Hello, looks like I will be spending this coming Friday at the airport of Frankfurt. I've never been to the city, is there anything interesting to see? If some one lives near-by and has spare time ap
I'm pretty sure that nowadays to interface your rig to the computer would be faster and easier than to write this e-mail. Yuri VE3DZ --Original Message-- From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@c
Great set of links, Jim! Thanks. Hope it'll help the guys who are still using old radios. Yuri Not necessarily easy, but definitely better. Also, a better contest logger might help. Here's an excerpt
Why not also ignore those, who buy antennas instead of building them, and those, who buy radios instead of assembling them from parts? :-) Yuri I know it's not always true, but I just assume the gues
Wrong dates too. Yuri Not me. 1. Wrong mode 2. No LP category for non-asians Barry W2UP On 9/1/2017 08:29, Chuck Dietz wrote: _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list C
Hi Ria. I complained about WAE web page many months ago. Looks like nothing is being done to fix it. Too bad, I used to like this contest and especially its management back in the day, when they used
I hope Ed W0YK reads this reflector. Im trying to get in touch with him regarding CQ WW LOG question. Tried e-mailing him from 3 different addresses and am getting same error message: This is the mai
Why not simply allowing to work same station on other bands, like it's being done in all other Contests? Yuri VE3DZ It has now been 10 years since the US went code-free and ham radio license numbers
What was cool about the 50's that HAM Radio guys at that time looked like some kind of heroes... like someone who achieved something which was really difficult and to understand and unavailable for o