[CQ-Contest] Why do we like our favorite contesting mode?

Sandy Farley N7RQ n7rq at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 6 10:34:00 PST 2010


OK that just sounds like a challenge, Jim, so I have to take you up on it.  :-)
 
I LIKE phone contests for the very reason most people hate them.
 
I like the anarchy and the challenge of picking an itty bitty signal from a needed multiplier out from underneath some elephant splattering over 10 kHz long before anyone else spots him or her.
 
I get tremendous satisfaction from using everything I know about my radio to maximize my received and transmitted signal under any conditions, no matter how painful.  Yes, I may whine about it after the contest.  But the truth is, I love it.
 
I love the sound of the human voice -- the passion, hysteria, hilarity, crabbiness, and joy -- during exchanges in a contest.  And BTW, I get a senior discount when I go out to eat, too.
 
If that makes me a whacko, so be it.
I Yam What I Yam...
 
73/88, Sandy N7RQ
Secretary/TreasurerWebmistress
Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
http://www.arizonaoutlaws.net
 
“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!”
--   Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 05:45:29 -0500
"James  Cain" <jamesdavidcain at gmail.com> posted:

Anybody else notice that not a single phone operator has posted on this topic?

Like most folks I'm in total denial about the Aging Process but I have noticed that less and less I like trying to sort one voice out of a group of people yakking -- and I mean in person but a radio group probably is little different.

I am more comfortable listening to CW at a slightly higher pitch than I used to (maybe 420 Hz instead of 380). In the 1980s I was very interested in high-end audio and used to dread the predicted hearing loss of 1000 Hz at the top end for every decade I aged. 

Modern radios allow us to do all sorts of CW signal audio tailoring; but what options do phone operators have? When you have a hearing test, they don't feed you voices, they feed you pure dc tones. 

Others have observed that we radio operators have spent thousands of hours bombarding our ears through headphones. For our generation, add rock concerts to the damage and we are probably lucky to have any hearing left at all. 

But Dad was right -- aging beats the alternative. Better deaf than dead.

Jim Cain
At The K1TN Superstation


 
73/88, Sandy N7RQ
Secretary/TreasurerWebmistress
Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
http://www.arizonaoutlaws.net
 
“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!”
--   Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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   2. Re: Why do we like our favorite contesting mode?
      (k3bu at optimum.net)
   3. Re: Why do we like our favorite contesting mode? (LY8O)
   4. Log checking - conflicting bands in submitted logs (David Levine)
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   6. Friday night NAQP practice (Ken Keeler)
   7. Re: Why do we like our favorite contesting mode? (Jim Neiger)
   8. NS Ladder Resumes Thursday (Bill Haddon)
   9. Why do we like our favorite contesting mode? (James  Cain)
  10. 6-band Skimmer available by Telnet (Pete Smith N4ZR)


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Date: Tue,  5 Jan 2010 06:47:41 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [CQ-Contest] 2010 RTTY Roundup - All 3830 Claimed Scores
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2010 RTTY Roundup - 3830 Claimed Scores 05Jan2010

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call               QSOs   S/P Cntry   hr      Score Club
US/VE M/S HP
NR5M              1948    59    74    24    258,818 CTDXCC
W0SD              1818    58    59    24    212,706 
K1SFA(@K1TTT)     1562    59    71    24    203,060 YCCC
WW4LL             1577    59    64    24    193,971 ACG
W4RM              1335    57    73    24    173,550 PVRC
ND2T(@W6YX)       1505    59    52    24    167,055 NCCC
KN5O              1439    60    47 21:35    153,973 Louisiana Contest Cl
W6YX              1377    60    50    24    151,470 NCCC
K7BTW(@N9ADG)     1275    59    51    24    140,250 WWDXC
KD0S              1349    58    43    23    136,249 

W4NF              1126    57    62    23    133,994 PVRC
W1MAT             1084    57    62    22    128,996 YCCC
AA3B              1046    55    68    12    128,658 FRC
N1MGO             1989    58    52    24    118,800 YCCC
NK7U              1180    57    43    19    118,000 WVDXC
VA3DX              955    57    65  17.5    116,510 CCO
KK7PR(@K7ZS)      1157    57    42    20    114,543 WVDXC
K3MD               977    54    60    21    111,378 FRC
K6WC(@N6CK)       1211    58    27   22h    102,935 NCCC
K3MJW              970    53    52 23:58    101,850 

N6XG              1030    51    41    19     98,916 NCCC
W6OAT             1042    59    30 17:00     92,738 NCCC
WT9Q              1088    58    27    23     92,480 Grand Mesa
W7CT              1059    56    28           88,956 Utah DX Association
VE5MX              784    53    41           73,696 Saskatchewan Contest
N4KG               626    54    52    14     66,356 ACG
W1AJT              640    56    41   <15     62,080 CCO
W3MF               532    55    58     8     60,116 FRC
K6MM               597    52    22    15     44,178 NCCC
AA8LL              385    52    55    13     41,195 SWODXA

NJ1F               256    46    20     6     17,664 YCCC
K2RD               264    46    18     6     16,896 NCCC
K6NV               221    40     6    6+     13,841 NCCC
N07T               210    41    15    18     11,760 Arizona Outlaws Cont
KR4F               167    42    23     4     10,855 ACG

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call               QSOs   S/P Cntry   hr      Score Club
US/VE M/S LP
N0NI              1734    59    68    24    220,218 Iowa DX and Contest 
K9NR              1024    59    59    24    120,832 SMC
N3XLS(@N3KAE)      769    56    51    24     82,283 
KF0UR              783    53    34    24     68,121 Grand Mesa
W1SLF(KB1JZU)      546    54    42  20.5     52,416 
VA7RY              629    57    26    21     52,207 
N7AT(@K8IA)        666    56    21    14     51,282 Arizona Outlaws Cont
VE3XAT             525    55    39           49,350 CCO
KJ4UNA             507    50    32    17     41,574 ACG
N9TF               419    54    24  13.5     32,682 SMC

K0BX               359    49    42    10     32,669 BEARS STL
AC0E               301    46    11 11.2h     17,157 Kansas City DX Club
W6NF               206    44    10  9:41     11,124 NCCC
W4EE               170    34    16    10      8,500 PVRC
N7LR               166    44     6            8,300 Arizona Outlaws Cont
K8MAD(@K8MR)       157    47     1     4      7,536 MRRC
K8GT               105    30    23   7.5      5,565 MRRC

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call               QSOs   S/P Cntry   hr      Score Club
US/VE Single Op HP
K4GMH             2102    57    67    24    260,648 PVRC
N6WM(@N6RO)       2155    60    51    24    239,205 NCCC
K1FWE             1847    57    70    24    234,569 YCCC
W0LSD             1735    58    61    24    206,465 Grand Mesa
K0IR              1610    58    68    24    202,860 MWA
N2WK              1549    58    69  23.5    196,723 OCARC
W5AP              1766    58    53    24    196,026 
K6LL              1768    57    50    24    189,176 Arizona Outlaws Cont
K5DU              1759    59    10    24    188,213 CTDXCC
WA5ZUP            1769    56    43          175,131 

K9CT              1410    59    60  23.4    167,790 SMC
WY7FD             1517    59    44 22:45    156,251 
KR7X(@K7ZSD)      1623    56    40  23.5    155,808 WVDXC
W7WW              1483    57    47    22    154,232 Arizona Outlaws Cont
W4GKM             1392    57    53 21:15    153,120 
W6WRT             1417    60    47  22.5    151,619 
W4PK              1242    58    63  22.0    150,252 PVRC
ND9E              1307    58    55    24    147,691 SMC
AB4GG             1297    59    51    24    142,670 TCG
W7ZR              1592    57    30    24    138,504 Arizona Outlaws Cont

K4RO              1185    56    54    20    130,350 TCG
WX4TM             1194    55    50  20,5    125,370 ACG
VE2SB             1150    55    50 22hrs    120,750 CGQ
N6IE              1229    56    40  20.7    117,984 NCCC
KT0DX             1136    59    44    22    117,008 Grand Mesa
K0PK              1031    59    50    22    112,379 MWA
K7IA              1142    55    43 21:34    111,916 Arizona Outlaws Cont
AJ3G              1019    55    53  23.6    110,052 PVRC
VY2SS             1065    55    45  18.5    106,500 MCC
AG4W               986    56    51    22    105,502 ACG

WX4MM             1091    57    38  21.5    103,645 ACG
K9YC              1154    54    34    23    101,552 
WA0MHJ             849    57    55    19     95,088 MWA
W2V(KA2D)          930    56    46           94,860 OBONY
AC0C               880    56    46    23     89,658 Kansas City DX Club
W7OM               879    59    42    16     88,779 WWDXC
W7PP               753    57    58    18     86,595 MRRC
K7WP               978    57    31    20     86,064 Arizona Outlaws Cont
K5ZD               799    53    53   8.2     84,694 YCCC
VE3KF              784    57    51    22     84,672 CCO

W1TO               737    53    59 14.33     82,544 YCCC
W0ZQ               909    56    34           81,810 MWA
AA4NC              825    55    44           81,675 PVRC
K6TD               880    57    33 14:30     79,200 NCCC
N6HC               967    55    26    17     78,327 SCCC
N0KE               836    56    37    24     77,748 Grand Mesa
N4ZZ               852    57    34    11     77,532 TCG
KT6YL              919    57    24    20     74,439 NCCC
NO2T               635    52    60    20     71,120 Bergen Amateur Radio
KI7MT              891    53    24  23.7     68,607 

K0PC               940    55    17    16     67,680 MWA
W1TY               671    56    44    15     67,100 Rochester (NY) DX As
K4WW               600    56    49    12     63,000 KCG
VA7RN              758    58    23 16.11     61,398 BCDX
W0PR               744    52    30 11.75     61,008 MWA
N2EIK              788    58    19    20     60,676 Hudson Valley Contes
K4ADR              705    54    32           60,630 FCG
W6SX               713    54    30  16.4     59,892 NCCC
K8UT               610    55    44    17     57,950 MRRC
K4MA               538    52    55    12     57,566 PVRC

N6EE               671    56    27    12     55,693 NCCC
K5WAF              620    57    26    12     51,460 TDXS
KO7X               660    57    20           50,820 Grand Mesa
VE7CF              639    54    23           49,203 
W4UK               652    55    20  15.7     48,900 
W4BCG              545    54    35    12     48,505 TCG
K3WW               516    47    47    12     48,504 FRC
KQ3F               504    53    32    10     42,840 FRC
K1IB               449    51    36    10     39,063 YCCC
N4VV               480    54    26    14     38,400 TCG

WT6K               567    51    15    21     37,422 NCCC
K4HAL              456    51    29    11     36,480 ACG
K6RB               527    56    10     7     34,782 NCCC
WE9V               380    46    41     4     33,060 SMC
AA5VU              435    50    19           30,015 CTDXCC
NI6P(NI7T)         384    52    19           27,264 Quincy Radiosport So
W4RK               414    52    12     8     26,496 
N0XR               403    54    10     6     25,792 Iowa DX and Contest 
K4CX               350    50    23           25,550 TCG
VE2DWA(LU7DW)      332    48    28    <4     25,080 

K4IU               345    49    23    12     24,840 MWA
W2OO               305    48    30   9.3     23,790 TCG
N1HRA              306    46    31   7.5     23,562 CTRI
K7RF               350    51    15    12     23,100 WVDXC
N7MQ               309    52    21  7.25     22,557 WVDXC
W1YRC              258    48    38  11.5     22,188 CTRI
KC0VTJ             344    48    13    13     20,984 
KD7MSC             339    46    14           20,340 WVDXC
N6BY               343    49    10 18:38     20,237 NCCC
N2SQW              250    46    27     8     18,250 Hudson Valley Contes

K4EU               276    47    14     7     16,836 PVRC
N6DW               245    51    13    14     15,680 NCCC
W6EU               268    46     8     3     14,472 NCCC
W2GPS              195    45    18 07:36     12,285 PVRC
K7XC               218    44    10    12     11,772 NCCC
W4GHD              200    40    18     6     11,600 TCG
KD2MX              179    46    15   5.5     10,919 
NI7R               181    40    18           10,498 Arizona Outlaws Cont
N8NOE              173    38    24            9,861 CTDXCC
AI6O               173    42    11     6      9,169 Amateur Radio Club o

N3FAW              186    41     8    13      9,114 NCCC
K0ADX(@N0KK)       181    44     4  3:15      8,688 MWA
KT7G               155    36    17            8,215 WWDXC
W7WHY              145    41     9     4      7,250 WVDXC
K7EG               114    37    17     6      6,156 WWDXC
KA4OTB             125    30    11  6+30      5,125 TCG
W5KI                83    30    14   1.9      3,652 
W6AMM(ND2T)         70    33     3  0:30      2,520 NCCC
N4NM                42    18     8   1.5      1,092 ACG
WC2Z                30    21     6   2.0        810 TCG

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Call               QSOs   S/P Cntry   hr      Score Club
US/VE Single Op LP
AA5AU             1758    59    59    24    207,444 Louisiana Contest Cl
N9CK              1456    57    64  23.5    176,176 SMC
KA4RRU            1376    57    55  23.5    154,112 
W3LL              1141    59    65    24    141,484 PVRC
VA2UP             1203    58    57          138,345 CGQ
KC4HW             1231    58    54    24    137,872 ACG
KB7Q(@WA7U)       1344    56    39    24    127,680 Norther Rockies DX A
K8FC              1324    55    34    24    117,836 Grand Mesa
KE5OG             1066    56    47    24    109,798 
K0AD              1109    56    41    24    107,573 MWA

W0BR              1047    57    39          100,512 FRC
AB7R              1051    55    31  22.5     90,386 WWDXC
NN7SS(K6UFO)      1014    57    32    20     90,246 WWDXC
N6OJ              1081    57    25 19:37     88,624 NCCC
N0KK               908    56    35 19:43     82,628 MWA
VE4EAR             832    55    44  14.5     82,368 
K7RE               900    56    35    19     81,900 
K0TI               957    57    28    18     81,345 MWA
NT0F               751    56    36           69,092 
K8AJS              663    54    48 23 1/     67,626 

W7LD               768    57    30    24     66,468 
W1BYH              617    55    52    24     66,019 YCCC
VA7ST              810    56    25    22     65,610 BCDX
WB2RHM             640    53    49  23.5     65,280 Mecklenburg ARS
K2DSL              708    55    36           64,428 Bergen Amateur Radio
VE3DZ              650    55    44    18     64,350 CCO
WO4O               718    55    34  17.5     63,902 TCG
N4ZI               746    55    23    16     58,188 TCG
W2CG               606    41    43  13.6     56,964 FRC
K8SM               571    55    38           53,103 

N2CU               568    54    37  14.5     51,688 Western NY DX Associ
ND4X               550    57    36    23     51,150 TCG
KK8MM              532    56    39    24     50,540 
N2FF               573    50    38    20     50,424 OBONY
WA7YAZ             638    54    24           49,764 
W8AKS              475    55    42    18     46,075 PVRC
VE3KI              490    55    39    18     46,060 CCO
W9ILY              533    53    32  14.3     45,305 METRO DX Club
AE5PW              580    53    25           45,240 
VE3FH              500    54    36 19:47     45,000 CCO

K1GU               503    53    33    12     43,258 TCG
WB5TUF             532    51    29    19     42,560 TDXS
KS1J               457    48    45           42,501 CTRI
VA7AM              617    52    15    17     41,339 BCDX
K0TG               548    54    21  12.5     41,100 MWA
WF7T               568    54    18  21.5     40,896 TCG
VE3HG              430    52    35    24     37,410 CCO
K3WI               393    48    45    11     36,549 FRC
KR1ST              459    52    26           35,802 I'm Hearing Things
KE4KWE             451    52    25    10     34,727 ACG

N2YBB              402    55    31 16:55     34,572 OBONY
KB9S               416    50    30    14     33,280 MWA
K5TTT              407    53    29    23     32,560 OkDX
N8MR               373    52    31    15     30,959 Livonia Amateur Radi
AE4Y               420    50    19  14.5     28,980 SECC
W3BUI              390    52    22  15.9     28,860 
VE3MGY             412    48    22  9:30     28,840 CCO
NF6P               454    50    13 16:30     28,602 NCCC
NA5U               383    54    19    11     27,959 
N2NF               345    52    28           27,600 

K4EDI              403    50    18           27,404 TCG
KG4MGE             301    41     8  20.3     26,789 
KA9MOM             362    51    23           26,788 
VA3GGF             334    52    28    15     26,720 CCO
VE7IO              448    52     7    12     26,432 BCDX
NA2M               342    50    27    10     26,334 OBONY
W6FFH              395    46    20    16     26,070 
K2SI               307    49    35  11.5     25,788 Rochester (NY) DX As
KN4Q               344    52    22           25,456 TCG
N9LYE              346    54    19    20     25,258 SMC

K6UM               394    50    14 11:24     25,216 WVDXC
N3RC               412    50    11    12     25,132 NCCC
N2AET              321    51    27    19     25,038 
K7ZD               350    51    18  19:2     24,150 CADXA
K9OR               305    49    27           23,180 SMC
AA4YL              301    50    25    20     22,876 ACG
N2GA               316    50    21    10     22,436 OBONY
AD5LU              344    49    13    10     21,328 
N5UWY              377    47     9    19     21,112 OkDX
WB8JUI             338    50    12  6.45     20,956 MRRC

W7EWG              320    52    13    15     20,800 
KQ6ES              339    49    12           20,679 SCCC
N3WZR              306    51    16   ~19     20,502 PVRC
K0QH               300    50    18 20.25     20,400 Ste Genevieve DX Con
W0PC               338    50    10           20,280 
VE3JI              284    47    24     9     20,164 CCO
WB2COY             304    45    21    20     20,064 
N0BUI              301    45    21  10.8     19,866 MWA
W4BK               330    50    10           19,800 TCG
N8DNG              288    51    15           19,008 

WB2OQQ             255    45    23    12     18,360 Great South Bay Amat
KE7YF              282    50    14    14     18,048 Arizona Outlaws Cont
K8DD               265    49    18 06:11     17,755 MRRC
KS0M               232    46    30    11     17,632 
NQ7R               257    44    18   9.0     15,934 Arizona Outlaws Cont
NT6X(@W6UE)        248    47    17    20     15,872 Caltech Radio Club
N0RU               223    42    28  8.26     15,610 Grand Mesa
W1UJ               214    43    25           14,522 YCCC
VE3TMT             237    48    13     8     14,457 CCO
VE7AX              228    50    12           14,136 

W1ZD/7             180    51    27    10     14,040 
KD9MS              237    37    16           13,746 SMC
KS2G               217    41    19 13:00     13,020 OBONY
KF6RY(W6ZL)        250     4     9    10     13,000 
N2WN               178    42    29           12,638 TCG
KF4OPX             221    34    21     6     12,597 ACG
W1IG               202    42    18    11     12,120 CTRI
VE3AJ              211    39    18           12,027 CCO
NB4M               185    34    26   4.9     11,655 TCG
AA4U               190    45    16   5.1     11,590 ACG

N0EOP              225    41     8    15     11,025 Grand Mesa
VE3RCN             171    60     3    12     10,773 CCO
WB2ABD             192    37    17     7     10,368 Western NY DX Associ
K2DB               149    35    33           10,132 Rochester (NY) DX As
WV0T               211    42     6    16     10,128 
K2QMF              182    47     7   3.5      9,828 OBONY
N5UM               180    46     7  5.25      9,540 
K6LE               179    44     8    12      9,308 NCCC
N1SXL              159    44    11            8,745 CTRI
KG9JP              154    55     8     9      8,470 Arizona Outlaws Cont

AG3L               154    39    16    15      8,470 Arizona Outlaws Cont
K3FIV              146    44    12    10      8,176 NCCC
KF9LI              157    43     9    14      8,164 
KX7L               164    37    12            8,036 WWDXC
W1MAW              172    39     6   7.3      7,740 YCCC
W6TK               151    43     8     4      7,701 SCCC
K3TN               135    40    14     4      7,290 PVRC
NA6G               142    42     5     8      6,674 NCCC
KB9AMG             144    42     3    10      6,480 
N2MUN              121    27    25            6,292 OBONY

KD5J               132    39     8            6,204 
WO1N               130    33    13     6      5,980 YCCC
N4YDU              110    40     5   2.5      4,950 PVRC
VA7HZ               99    40     8    12      4,752 
AB0DI              101    37     9 10:20      4,646 
WW2PT              103    33    14     7      4,532 
KG4CUY             101    30    14     5      4,444 ACG
AD7XZ               76    76    58            4,408 
AJ4JD               89    37    12     9      4,361 TCG
WD8RYC              72    47    13   9.5      4,320 Short Mountain Repea

N4LF                85    34    13 02:32      3,995 FCG
K7MY                82    32     8     4      3,280 Arizona Outlaws Cont
K6RM                56    24     5            1,568 NCCC
N4JIK               69    13     5     4      1,242 
N0KM                38    12     9   2.5        798 
K6JEB               38    13     2 04:42        570 NCCC

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call               QSOs   S/P Cntry   hr      Score Club
US/VE Single Op QRP
K2YG               433    52    34    22     37,238 
VA3DF              250    50     5           13,750 CCO
W9IP               141    33     6   5.5      5,499 SMC



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call               QSOs   S/P Cntry   hr      Score Club
Non-US/VE M/S HP
OL6X(OK1DIG)      1468    56    78    24    196,712 DRCG
S53M(S51FB)       1250    55    75    24    162,500 SCC
OK3C(@OK2ZC)       636    43    64    19     68,159 
CX7TT              400    49    45    10     37,600 FCG

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call               QSOs   S/P Cntry   hr      Score Club
Non-US/VE M/S LP
RK3MWI             820    39    61  23.5     82,000 
IW1QN              521    41    62    24     53,663 AceHigh DX Team
EA2RY              422    35    50 20h23     35,530 Radio Club Henares

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call               QSOs   S/P Cntry   hr      Score Club
Non-US/VE Single Op HP
P49X(W0YK)        2987    60    64    24    370,388 Loma Prieta Contest 
G6PZ(UT5UDX)      1747    58    70    24    223,616 BLACK SEE CONTEST CL
RD3AF             1645    56    76    24    217,140 
XE2K              1441    57    39    22    138,336 GRUPO DXXE
US5I(US5IQ)       1246    41    67    24    134,568 Ukrainian Contest Cl
YL5T(YL3DQ)       1014    43    74    18    118,638 Latvian CC
SV2BFN            1041    44    59    24    107,223 NORTHERN GREECE CONT
YO9HP              988    39    61    18     98,800 RR DX
S56A               919    44    62 22:46     97,414 
RA3ANI             859    40    65           90,195 

DJ6QT              811    53    56    17     88,399 RR DX
EA5GTQ             834    43    59    22     85,068 
OH8WW              743    48    49    15     72,071 
IW1PNJ             659    39    66           69,195 sanremo contest club
ON4ATW             640    50    48    14     62,720 RR DX
OH2BBT             633    39    59    21     62,034 
F5CQ               534    53    52    14     56,070 Les Nouvelles DX
EC1KR              578    50    46 13,30     54,981 Radio Club Henares
AL9A               660    56    27 13:04     54,780 
GM0FGI             626    34    51    20     53,210 GMDX Group

OK2SFP             582    36    47    15     48,306 
G4MKP              503    44    52  21.5     48,288 Chiltern DX Club
DD1JN              338    37    46 10:23     28,054 BCC
DL8SCG             316    41    46   9,5     27,492 RR DX
RA9CB              514     1    52    16     27,242 Ural Contest Group
AL1G               438    51     8 11:39     25,842 
KH6GMP             375    47    13    24     22,500 
PA3EWP             180    33    42     6     13,500 BCC
IZ1LBG(@IR1G)      200    45    13 2h30m     11,600 
JA7ZP              106    26    26     5      5,512 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call               QSOs   S/P Cntry   hr      Score Club
Non-US/VE Single Op LP
P40YL(AI6YL)      1566    57    50    24    167,562 NCCC
J39BS             1035    57    36    19     96,255 
FM5CD              835    55    53    15     90,180 Chiltern DX Club
SP8NR              680    38    59  22,3     65,960 SP DX Club
HA5LZ              543    31    59    20     48,870 
US0HZ              589    19    53    20     42,408 
Z36W               508    28    52           40,640 Z37M Contest team
DL1ZBO             498    29    52 16:14     40,338 DRCG
SP9H               514    26    50    19     39,064 
KL7AC              587    54    12    12     38,742 

IK1DFH             461    24    54    24     35,958 RBLOB RADIO GROUP
G0HVQ              424    38    41           33,496 
EA4TD(OSCAR)       402    38    46 13:11     33,348 Radio Club Henares
UA4ALI             406     7    49           22,736 
PA3ARM             305    30    40    15     21,350 
XE2AU              316    51    13     8     20,224 
PR7AR              241    45    33           18,798 Guará DX Group
LU5FF              270    44    21     7     17,550 LU Contest Group
GU0SUP             205    40    45    10     17,425 BARTG
HZ1PS              215    28    37           13,975 

8S4S(SM6U)         265     0    38   ~10      9,994 WWYC
OH8TV              158    31    27  9.17      9,164 
DL4ME              158     4    28   3.5      5,056 RR DX
DK8EY              111     8    34     3      4,662 RR DX
DL3BBY             107     9    29  9:44      4,066 DRCG
EI8GNB              80    17    24     4      3,280 
UZ7HO               79     3    30     5      2,607 WWYC
HL5YI               47    12     9   6hr        987 
PY2AC               34    11    11              748 Cantareira DX Group
LU1BJW              23     8     2              230 LU Contest Group


Operators:
AC0E         AC0E,KD0CYE
EA2RY        EA2ABI,EA2KU,EA2RY,EA2WT
IW1QN        IW1QN,IZ1JJE
K1SFA        K1MK,K1SFA,K1TTT
K3MJW        AB3ER,K3RMB,K3RWN,KB3EYY,KB3HGJ,KB3LVH,KB3OMB,
             KG3F,WA3FKS,WC3O
K6WC         AE6RF,N6CK
K7BTW        K7EDX,N9ADG
K8MAD        K8CC,K8MR,K9TM,KW8N,W3AG
K9NR         AK9F,K9NR
KD0S         K0IE,KC0OCH,KD0S,WD0T
KF0UR        KF0UR,W0RAA
KJ4UNA       KE4UNA,KJ4UNA/
KK7PR        AD7XZ,K7NAA,K7ZS,KI7Y
KN5O         K1DW,KN5O
N0NI         N0AC,N0NI,N0XR
N1MGO        KT1I,N1MGO
N3XLS        KA3QLF,KB3TJW,N3KAE,N3XLS
N7LR         KE7TEK,N7LR,W9CF
ND2T         KZ2V,N6DE,ND2T,W6NEV
NK7U         K7ZO,NK7U
NR5M         K5GA,K5NZ,K5WW,KZ5KG,NR5M,W0MM
RK3MWI       UA3MRS,UA3MSA
W0SD         N0QJM,W0OE,W0SD,W7XU,WA0JH
W1MAT        KV1J,W1MAT
W4RM         K4RG,K4UVA,NH7C,W4RM,W7IY
W6NF         K7MKL,W6NF
W6YX         K6TT,N6CCH,N7MH,W6LD
W7CT         NG7M,W7CT
WW4LL        K1ZZI,K4ZJ,K9MUG,WW4LL



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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:00:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: k3bu at optimum.net
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Why do we like our favorite contesting mode?
To: K6VVA - Rick <cqtest97 at k6vva.com>
Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
Message-ID: <f82b8aca2d18e.4b435411 at optonline.net>
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I think Rick hit the nail on the head.
SSB mode contests are cacophony of QRM, splatter, wide signals.
While CW contests with available options of filtering, narrow band, weak signal detection, no need to yell and argue with QRU nets, offer more sane environment.
Add to it "improvement" in old age hearing, acquired CW proficiency  with age and more gentlemanly behaviour with less lids and space cadetts - no brainer why we old farts love CW over SSB mess.

My New Year's wish?
Classify local, in your shack skimmer as another gadget (not in assisted category) and ban ANY remote assistance from remote receivers, skimmers by OTHERs. 

73 and Happy New 2010 to all!

Yuri K3BU.us
www.MVmanor.com

> 
> 
> The older I get (66 next month), the more I find loud SSB 
> splatter and
> over-compressed signals with ugly background fan noise to be a most
> unpleasant listening experience I can do without ;-(
> 
> 
> 
> 73 & Happy SAFE New Year to all,
> 
> 
> 
> Rick/K6VVA * The Locust
> 
> 
> 
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:53:04 +0200
From: LY8O <ly8o at ot.lt>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Why do we like our favorite contesting mode?
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Message-ID: <fb5cfa3c1fba.4b437c80 at post.omnitel.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hi,

I agree with all words from all answers before. But let it be said again: the main problem with SSB (for me) is many low quality signals (not a voice, but a signal as a total one) and growing splatters...
On the other hand I had started my Ham Radio life with Morse Code knowledge at about 25 - 30 WPM so there is no surprise I still love it, especially with a manual key if there is no any rush.

73, Remi LY8O


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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:10:53 -0500
From: David Levine <david at levinecentral.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Log checking - conflicting bands in submitted
    logs
To: CQ Contesting Reflector <CQ-Contest at contesting.com>
Message-ID:
    <e326c1211001050810s6f2a2432t26d5519412151b2c at mail.gmail..com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

I have a general question related to something specific that occurred in the
RTTY Round-Up contest this past weekend. My log has already been submitted
and nothing will be changed. This is a just a question in hopes of better
understanding how things get validated. Here's the set up info:

I noticed on eQSL that I didn't have a match for a contact from this
weekends contest. I looked it up and the call/date/time match but the band
is different - 40 vs 80. So I rejected the contact on the eQSL site and
indicated that the band was wrong and they should check their log. The
person very quickly replied back that it couldn't be wrong because it was in
the middle of a 100+ Q run.

So I check things on my end further and for the call immediately preceding
and immediately after this one in question, they are both on 80m on my end
and both already confirmed on LoTW. So I'm 99% sure I'm correct that the
call in question is accurate on my end and was made on 80m and something
happened with the op on the other end as I wasn't switching bands back and
forth and was on 80m for 90 mins or so at that time.

So my question is, assuming the contest log checking program cares about the
band at all, which I imagine it might, what happens if 2 conflicting log
entries exist when it tries to match them up? Do both people get a NIL? Does
it try and figure out which band is correct and how could it do that
accurately?

Thanks for any help in understanding the process.
K2DSL - David


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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:13:37 EST
From: cqtestk4xs at aol.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Dayton Hamvention
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Message-ID: <8847.62e878a5.38751391 at aol.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"

Since I will be at my daughter's wedding in Florida the weekend of  May 8, 
I've decided to stick around on the mainland the following weekend for  the 
Dayton Hamfvention....my first since hitting KH6 in 2006

Does anyone know of a room available or a room to share at  Crowne?  I'm a 
non-smoker.

Any help?  Please reply off the reflector.   Thanks.

Bill KH7XS/KH7B/K4XS 




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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:20:22 -0800
From: Ken Keeler <kenkeeler at jazznut.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Friday night NAQP practice
To: nccc at contesting.com, nccc-blue at kkn.net, cq-contest at contesting.com
Message-ID: <201001060120.o061KPZm017715 at mail385c25.carrierzone.com>
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NCCC will sponsor a practice session for the CW North American QSO 
Party, on Friday night in NA, 0230-03Z, Jan. 9.  (630 PM PST, 
etc)  Observe the real NAQP rules:  six bands, 100w, mults count per 
band, etc.  The rules and strategies are notably different from the 
usual Thursday NS events, so use this opportunity to warm up for the 
real thing on Saturday.

NS Ladder resumes on Thursday nite, 0230-03Z, Jan. 8.  Before that, 
0200-0220Z, Slow NS will be held.



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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:39:49 -0800
From: "Jim Neiger" <n6tj at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Why do we like our favorite contesting mode?
To: "Randy Thompson K5ZD" <k5zd at charter.net>,
    <cq-contest at contesting.com>
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I am old.

I have been contesting for 55 years.

I love CW contesting.

I love SSB contesting.

I am equally bad, in both modes.

End of my story.

Vy 73,

Jim Neiger  N6TJ

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From: "Randy Thompson K5ZD" <k5zd at charter.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 12:45 PM
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Why do we like our favorite contesting mode?

> I always thought people were either Phone ops or CW ops.  I.e., they 
> favored
> one or the other based on their interests or skills and that was that. 
> But,
> is that really true?  Could there be other factors that influence our
> preferred operating mode?
>
> The WPX CW/SSB Contest participant survey conducted in Aug-Sep 2009 
> provided
> over 5000 responses from contesters all over the world. The survey asked 
> for
> their years of contesting experience.  It also asked them to indicate 
> their
> favorite contesting mode.
>
> Doug, KR2Q, did some data mining and the results are suprising!  Would you
> believe your preferences might be determined by how many years of 
> contesting
> experience you have?
>
> See the results at http://www.cqwpx.com/blog/?p=52
>
>
> Randy, K5ZD
>
>
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 22:05:22 -0800
From: Bill Haddon <haddon.bill at gmail.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] NS Ladder Resumes Thursday
To: Cq Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>,    NCCC
    <nccc at contesting.com>
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This Thursday night: Wk 3 out of 10 for the Winter NS Ladder, resuming
after the Holiday break.

Time: 0230-0300Z Friday, January 7, Thursday night in NA.

Four  bands CW; 160 (near 1815) ,80, 40, 20m

NCCC SPRINT RULES:  http://www.ncccsprint.com/
    -- NO DUPES on same band,
    -- 100 WATTS max,
    -- MULTS COUNT ON EACH BAND, as in NAQP.

Preceeded by the Slow NS, SNS, organized by W9RE at 0200Z.

Report scores at: www.hornucopia.com/3830score/

Additional NS Ladder info:
Schedule at www.ncccsprint.com/next_ns.html
Ends last week in February.

Count the high 6 scores toward awards.
Wine awards by drawing this time, but weighted toward level of participation.

73 Bill n6zfo
NS Ladder Contest Director


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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 05:45:29 -0500
From: "James  Cain" <jamesdavidcain at gmail.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Why do we like our favorite contesting mode?
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
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Anybody else notice that not a single phone operator has posted on this topic?

Like most folks I'm in total denial about the Aging Process but I have noticed that less and less I like trying to sort one voice out of a group of people yakking -- and I mean in person but a radio group probably is little different.

I am more comfortable listening to CW at a slightly higher pitch than I used to (maybe 420 Hz instead of 380). In the 1980s I was very interested in high-end audio and used to dread the predicted hearing loss of 1000 Hz at the top end for every decade I aged. 

Modern radios allow us to do all sorts of CW signal audio tailoring; but what options do phone operators have? When you have a hearing test, they don't feed you voices, they feed you pure dc tones. 

Others have observed that we radio operators have spent thousands of hours bombarding our ears through headphones. For our generation, add rock concerts to the damage and we are probably lucky to have any hearing left at all. 

But Dad was right -- aging beats the alternative. Better deaf than dead.

Jim Cain
At The K1TN Superstation



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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:32:42 -0500
From: Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr at contesting.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] 6-band Skimmer available by Telnet
To: CQ Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
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Thanks to the addition of a QS1R receiver, my Telnet skimmer node is now 
listening simultaneously on 6 bands.  If you want to telnet in, you're 
welcome: http://n4zr.dyndns.org port 7300

-- 
73, Pete N4ZR
Visit the Contesting Compendium at http://wiki.contesting.com
The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststations.com
The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net



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