Hi Mike It is simplistic to say don't cheat and you won't get asked - The committee will change over the years and the rule will come back to bite - It is a dumb rule The very ethos of contesting has
The DARC system has done precisely this for several years. All DARC contest logs are accepted as QSO proof for the DARC Awards programme "Contest is more than 59 - that is known especially by award h
Interesting you are heading down this path - We are a technologist hobby in danger of being run over by troglodytes. Look at any category that allows spotting - is not this the same as multiple opera
The ZL Winter Sprint series starts on Tuesday 13 June 2017 at 8pm NZ Time. The format is to work as many other ZLs as you can in an hour, with the first half hour being CW and the second half hour SS
Greetings All I am a bit confused here - as it appears are many others Assume I am a visitor to the USA and a contest operator asks me to join a multi op station. I do not have a USA callsign what yo
VK SHIRES QSO PARTY Held the weekend prior to the second Monday of June every year. Starts: 06.00 UTC Saturday, June 10, 2017 Ends: 06.00 UTC Sunday, June 11, 2017 I. Contest Period: 24 hours for all
When I contest I prefer Multi Op categories - If I single op I tend to enter Assisted - I understand that as an assisted entrant I have fellow operators all over the planet helping my score - It is l
"For example, a station tuning through the band and working spotted multipliers will sound the same on the SDR recordings, but is very obvious listening to the operator's headphone recordings." Bette
The Assisted category in the CQWW is 25 years old this year; It was created because of the advantages" given to operators who were using the spotter networks In all of the 25 years of assisted catego
Sorry Stan But the statistics do not support your biased view - Plain and simple - Troll through ALL the results and let us know how many times ASSISTED beat UNASSITED - the answer will highlight you
Hi Ed, "Others are simply looking at the efficiency gain of being fed spots and the fact that their eyes add another receptor beyond their 2 ears and that adds to their efficiency as well." Please fi
Hi Stan It is a quagmire We have assumed that SOAB A is an advantage but with even top operators like D4B, N5TJ and W2GD, never in the 25 years of CQWW and CQWPX has the SOAB A category exceeded the
Hi Dave In answer to your questions Is a category for number of receivers needed in the world of contesting? No - the name of the event is Contest - "an event in which people compete for supremacy in
Agreed Steve, My first SO2R setup was a FT101E to a 4 element 15M yagi and a TS820S to a tenM Yagi on the same tower - no one told me I shouldn't do it :-) Voice keyer was a cassette loop hooked up t
Hi Tim, The biggest advantage with the FT3000 over the FT2000 and the FT1200 is the USB interface I run a FT2000 at home with a few mods, a FT950 and a FT991 The FtDX300 with the spec an and the digi
It is never as simple as SO2R vs SO1R Until we all use the same radio and antenna there will be variations My fist SO2R setup was a FT101E and a TS820 This progressed to a pair of FT102 Yaesu's and t
Spot on Kelly If anything the delays are newbies trying SO2R or the new breed of multi ops running multiple "in band" stations - experienced SO2R ops don't get involved in the hunt if they can't do i
Greetings fellow contesters Has anyone rigged up an Alarm bell or other alert for new multipliers worked in N1MM for a multi op ? Not being a programmer type I have no idea how to proceed so it is re
Hi Charley, Take the time to look up the GM3SEK lecture at the RSGB Convention - Clean Up Your Shack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSL1h6MJbaI A very detailed presentation of the causes of the RFI
Multi Single Contest Software question : In the recent CQWW we ran a Multi Single with a Multiplier chasing second rig - the thoughts moved to even more multiplier rigs eg in band and other bands - I