I can top LAX. I missed SFL! They must have all been out for the earlybird specials... Barry W2UP -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
The rules aren't broken, so why "fix" them? Only some ignorant or smart-a** ops are. Barry W2UP -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing l
Along similar lines, many years ago I was the log checker for the NY QSO Party. I was floored when I started looking at logs and saw many people logged the copied RST as 5NN. Barry, <insert call> --
Just wondering if there will be live monitoring going on this year. Barry W2UP -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@co
I usually call the guy, then before giving a report, send CALL? It usually works. Once in a while I'll get a TU. if he logged me, without me sending a report and without me knowing his call, he'll be
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it's OK for a single-op (unassisted) to post spots, but not receive them. IIRC, CT has this functionality built in. Barry W2UP -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, C
Did an upload today and about 1/3 of my 10m contest QSOs are already QSLed - significantly higher than I expected. I usually do an upload shortly after a contest with a significant number of QSOs. Ho
Let's take it a step further - any contests that break up YU, NU, adnNWT into separate mutls should also include Mexcian states as mults. Then next, does Belize have states? :.) Barry W2UP __________
TOO is not a cut number or abbreviation. It's your RTTY decoder missing the SHIFT character prior to sending the report. Don't forget, even though you're typing in ASCII, Baudot is a 5 bit code and t
Do CW contesters stay below 060? The problems include the number of signals in the contest and on 40m, the different allocations in R1 and R3. Barry W2UP -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO __________
Got my first taste of the RBN at K0RF this weekend. Maybe K1TTT can do an analysis, but it seemed that the Skimmer missed lots of dits at the beginning of calls, as well as picking up stray letters.
Hi Tim, I had a similar setup when I lived on the east coast. I talked with the antenna mfrs at Dayton, then modeled it, too and the WARC antenna really messed up the pattern on the high bands. Being
My first time on 6m this weekend, just playing around in the contest. On a band with such spotty propagation, it would be nice to know the QTH of the stations being worked. Short of keeping a grid sq
OTOH, it's nice that guys can operate from the Caribb or Central America and have an even shot with charmed locations with point advantages like P4. Barry W2UP -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO ____
Distance-based scoring is no fairer than the present system. It does not take into account difference in N-S locations. For example, OH and SM may be the same distance as Italy from a given spot in W
One thing nobody has mentioned as a possible cause for the drop in activity in ARRL DX is removal of the full write-up and scores from QST. I guess we need room for more articles on how to QSL and wh
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Kill two birds with one stone - get a free antenna and be in a competitive area for ARRL DX :.) Barry W2UP -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO _______________________________________________ CQ-Contes
I'd like to see Multiops prohibited from the bottom 25 KHz of a band :.) Barry W2UP -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Conte
Less cheating? Barry W2UP -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/list