I'm sure they are indeed quite reliable. *Some* things will happen to even the best-built supply. BC stations usually address this with a combination of redundancy and conservative rating of componen
Don't know about Windows but it works in Ximian Evolution. (1.0.8 on Linux) -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com _______________________________________________ C
It would seem to me that this shows that VHF contesting is BADLY broken. -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com _______________________________________________ CQ-C
It would be interesting to compute the total number of QSOs reported. The fact that score records continue to be broken with regularity suggests that casual activity is at least flat if not increasin
IMHO this is a big part of why VHF contesting is so inactive around here. I've been in Tennessee since 1990 and have monitored 146.55 for hours during various contests. I have heard **ONE** signal. O
Fully agreed, though either way I don't think adding categories is going to make a whole lot of difference. People have won awards by working a single QSO but in a contest of non-trivial length that
The feds have already done this: http://www.census.gov/datamap/fipslist/AllSt.txt Three digits or four letters, I wonder which is faster? (I'd imagine your chances of getting a non-contestant to give
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-149A1.doc As I read this, it means USA stations can now (effective immediately) operate phone in 3600-4000 and 7125-7300KHz. -- Doug Smith W9W
(that's why I posted the link!) As Mark points out, it is NOT effective immediately! -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com ________________________________________
FYI today is the deadline for submitting your Tennessee QSO Party log. You'll get an extra free day or two as I'm working a bit of overtime & won't be looking at any more logs until Sunday... -- Doug
Do you find claimed scores to be reasonably accurate? I check the logs for the Tennessee QSO Party, and find that claimed scores are often wrong, often by large amounts. -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant V
(I was going to make this reply private to Mike, but I think there are principles in here that may be helpful to anyone who operates in QSO Parties) We have similar problems in the Tennessee contest:
The TN QSO Party log deadline was last Thursday. We received: Cabrillo: N1MM Logger: 20 (including one log containing only one QSO) WriteLog: 12 TRLog: 8 unknown: 5 (Cabrillo files with no CREATED-BY
I generally find Soundgarden's "My Wave" more relevant<grin>... -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest ma
ADIF is a lot more flexible than Cabrillo - can support a huge variety of information fields - but that flexibility makes it a lot harder to parse. I receive the occasional ADIF entry in the TNQP. Ei
- Certainly it shouldn't be illegal to *post* your score to a scoreboard. Since such posting doesn't include specific frequency data, it doesn't constitute self-spotting. IMHO a single-op provides mo
The WAG contest is in progress. I can tell you DL1IAO will be on 40 meters in about five hours. Does that information provide an unfair advantage? If you want to work him, you've still got to *listen
My sample size is way too small but this graph may be interesting: http://www.w9wi.com/ham/agechart.htm (I'd love to see something similar prepared from a larger log) -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View
When it comes down to it the majority of contest rules cannot be enforced. How does the committee know I was QRP? They'd have to send an inspector into my shack with a wattmeter... yet while violatio
Actually, I'm with Kelly... Contests have funny quirks. The Sprint QSY rule has a valid purpose but drives people batty. Many QSO Parties have a strange special bonus station. The SS exchange is ridi