Not much, Henry. Same if you find he is not in your log and you add the QSO before submission. Not easy to do in SS with QSO numbers, but in CQWW, all you need to do is remove the nearest duplicate Q
Milt: I was about to comment on NOT using the word "check" before the check in the message when you suggested it is a good thing. In my opinion, "check" sounds too much like "six" in QRM. I couldn't
I don't see that giving recognition in contest results to DX stations in the ARRL 160 meter contest would change the character of the contest at all. Leigh's comments seem to presume that some rule c
If some of the existing contests would permit credit for SSB and CW QSOs in the same contest or give extra credit for CW QSOs, it would encourage more CW activity on 6M. That is what is done for most
Dink and all: I recommend publishing QTH information where it affect awards. In other words, if there is an award for high state or ARRL Section, the report will be far less meaningful if the section
I thought it was pretty well agreed in theory that, if you vacate a frequency for any reason (certainly including attempting to work anyone else on another frequency) and you come back and someone el
The requesting to spot on cluster by contesters is very common. I must have had that requested to me at least a dozen times this weekend in CQ WPX SSB. It must be that these guys don't realize it is
All the activity possible won't make contacts possible under certain conditions. Remember WAE CW last August? I worked and worked to make about 135 contacts in 48 hours from GA to EU. There was a lot
Hi Derek: My XYL and I were married on CQWW weekend in 1974. She knew it. She picked the date because neither Georgia, Georgia Tech, nor Auburn had home football games that Saturday. I only got to op
Actually, there is another dimension to having the contests on a holiday weekend. Surely this is not worse than having CQWW CW on the weekend after Thanksgiving (most years). But a Monday holiday aft
Author: k4bai@worldnet.att.net (John T. Laney, III)
Date: Tue May 8 22:18:51 2001
Some of you may remember Chris as WL7KY. He has been operating the college club station W7UQ lately. 73, John, K4BAI. -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative req
Jeff: This list must include only guys operating from their own home stations? K4BAI operating W4AN finished in the top 10 in ARRL CW SS in 1998, 1999, and 2000 (results are already out). N6TR operat
No doubt my selection as a wildcard team captain for WRTC 2000 was based primarily on my scores from 8P9Z in CQWW CW, rather than my scores from my tribander single element station at home as K4BAI.
Actually there is plenty of disincentive to operate WAE on the low bands and that comes from the 15 minute rule that applies to single ops. It is hard to switch to another band for a non-mult QSO and
Hey, Tom: Wait a minute. I am always QRV in the WAE CW contest. I don't like the (apparently just changed from 15 minute) 10 minute QSY rule because it is a disincentive to operate marginal bands bec
Author: K4BAI@worldnet.att.net (John T. Laney, III)
Date: Wed Feb 9 10:43:38 2000
Hello all: The SECC team (now consisting of K4BAI, K9AY, W4OC, AA4GA, K4NO and K4TW) needs four more contesters to fill out a 10-member team entry for NA Sprint this Saturday night (Sunday UTC). If i
Author: k4bai@worldnet.att.net (John T. Laney, III)
Date: Wed Feb 16 20:50:24 2000
Hello all: I am very pleased to announce that my partner for WRTC 2000 will be Dave, K6LL of the 1996 bronze medal team. We hope to see many of you in Slovenia in July and to work the rest of you on
Just a reminder that the TS-930 (and probably the 940) utilizes an isolated ground for the mic connection. I think that it is isolated inside the radio with an inductor to ground. What I had to do wh
Author: K4BAI@worldnet.att.net (John T. Laney, III)
Date: Fri Mar 17 09:47:20 2000
Hello Steve (CAC member, K4RF) and all: I have always loved the ARRL SS even in the days when it was two weekends and Phone and CW were run at the same time. I have entered CW full time almost every
Author: K4BAI@worldnet.att.net (John T. Laney, III)
Date: Mon Apr 10 12:34:28 2000
I will be in Portland, Oregon for a seminar Tuesday, April 11 through the following Sunday AM. If there are any contesters there who would like to meet or any ham radio events happening in that area,