[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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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 06:47:41 -0800 (PST)
From: n7wa at arrl.net
Subject: [CQ-Contest] 2010 RTTY Roundup - All 3830 Claimed Scores
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
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>
Message-ID: <D2780B40DC50479394787C1968F207CB at OwnerPC>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
reply-type=original
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>
Message-ID:
<210adf0e1001052205r7ee24abam48a87b87e24ba204 at mail.gmail..com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
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>
Message-ID: <2B0B3E7B5D9245F8A6903B2856EEF5ED at DBT00Q61>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
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>
Message-ID: <4B44AD1A.4010901 at contesting.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
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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