Not *sending* an acknowledgement is only half the problem. (and yes, the masters do get it right) The other half are operators who don't wait for the acknowledgement to be sent before they dump in th
I have done this in the past and received calls from VE and VK stations on my own frequency. -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com ________________________________
Yeah, the Europeans seem to have the "last two syndrome"... I didn't run much last weekend, but when I did several stations called in with "last two" only. (I agree fully with Bill regarding "QRZ?".
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If you do so via Internet, do not the nodes have a record of the IP address used? Is self-spotting important enough to cause KT1V to figure out which ISP WC1M is using & take out an account on the sa
Far better 10-4 than "last two"... -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contest
I just received Ward's "Contest Rate Sheet" in my email. His "Read The ... Rules!" hit the spot: I've just finished checking the logs for the Tennessee QSO Party. A few notes... - In my opinion, Cabr
It looks to me like we're talking about more than one thing here. What do we want? - Real-time scoring? - Instant final results? [1] - More detailed real-time information? (do you want to know I have
I've done this after the contest a few times. I'd like to see more people do so; I think it would be interesting to read the competition's log & see what they're doing differently. It's really fairly
Absolutely. Really, I don't think it makes much sense to try to keep one's strategy secret. It's kinda like treating the subject of the story that just aired on the NBC Nightly News as a trade secret
"...you have to find your opponent to hear their current serial number." Yep. That's the hard part. Especially if your opponent is taking an offtime! The more I think about it, the less sense it make
The thing I'm regretting forgetting to put in my "pilot project"... is the ability to send log notes to the Web. I know when operating multi-multi, it's a LOT of fun to be able to use the notes funct
Man, one really did have to listen this year, a *lot* of the checks in my database were different from what the guys were sending. (and my database is made entirely from my own logs - so I can't blam
May I echo Ward's comment, in my case with regard to the high bands? One station Sunday afternoon could be heard over at least 50KHz worth of 20 meters. Nobody else was that bad but 15-20KHz was not
I think the problem is that serious entrants aren't going to take the time to manually post scores during the contest. We're going to have to have something where the contest software [0] can automat
There's a downside to taking up cycling for exercise. On a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon it can become difficult to resist the urge to go for a ride. (I lost three hours in the CQWW to a 30km ride
If not worse... I would far rather people not sign /QRP. It accomplishes nothing. -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com 4th Place USA/Canada, QRP, in 2004 ARRL DX
Unfortunately true. Based on the list of spots of W9WI found on DX Summit after the contest, at least one spotter made a rash assumption about my QTH. He'll lose the QSO, and so will anyone else who
Please don't. I would regard this as frequency theft - to be less civil but more accurate, intentional QRM. And I don't think it would be at all unethical for the running station to return to the QRG
One thing I have done in this situation... is to send the intruder a report: - CQ TEST W9WI - <on same freq> CQ TEST WB9NME - WB9NME 5NN TN You'd be surprised how often that yields a QSO -- without i