I'm going to start early in organizing an all Southeast Sprint team. If you live in W4 or the Caribbean and will operate the Sprint seriously... then drop me a line. The goal will be to activate all
I call that short term thinking. If they were thinking long term they would be thinking about the next solar minimum. I hate to be pessimistic, but if you are making unanswered CQ's on Sunday now, w
Well let me remind you that we still have a category in this contest that doesn't include a packet network. It's kind of like operating back in the old days when you actually had to go find multipli
Looking for a couple more full time SOAB types for CQWW CW to be on a team or 3. 73 Bill - W4AN - K4AAA -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contes
I have to disagree with my buddy Lee on this one. There are very few instances of situations where the wrong guy gets penalized. I have found some of them in my reports/log too. I just figure everyo
Every morning for the past month or more I have been spending my time on 40 meters listening to and working the LP. Every morning that the LP is in good shape, the VVVV's being sent on 7002Khz are ve
C Moscow 7039.1 F Vladivostok 7038.4 P Kaliningrad 7038.8 S Archangel 7039 and our old favorite V Tashkent 7002.0 Bill Fisher, W4AN (EX KM9P) http://www.contesting.com -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://ww
I'm looking for a couple of guys to round out a 3rd team. If you are going to operate 40+ hours, please drop me a note. 73 Bill Bill Fisher, W4AN (EX KM9P) http://www.contesting.com -- CQ-Contest on
Personally I believe eliminating country to country QSO's is a good thing. Yes a SMALL percentage of people will miss 40 zones or 100 countries, but I dont think the impact of a rule change on 2% of
Just a brief overview from my perspective... I had a hard time sleeping Friday afternoon before the contest. Not sure I really got to sleep to be honest, but at least my eyes were closed and I was ho
Hi Leslie. An excellent place to start is the CQ-Contest mail list. I'm CCing this message to the list in hopes that a few of our readers will help in answering your questions. The CQ-Contest mail li
In spite of the fact that it is a terrible precedent, and a big step backwards for contesting. 73 Bill Bill Fisher, W4AN (EX KM9P) http://www.contesting.com -- End of Forwarded Message -- CQ-Contest
Sounds good on the surface Dan. BUT... 1) There are darned few weekends per year where these few novices (who dont like contesting) are burdened by the contest. Even fewer considering 10 meters close
I have added a feedback feature to the www.contesting.com web site. The first question asked was in the last contest you operated, did you at all times operate within your maximum power allowed? (301
I'm going to break two of my rules for posting to the reflectors on this box, just this once, to acknowledge and thank the guys behind making this stuff work so well. Thanks to Trey, N5KO, for pitchi
Just a brief overview from my perspective... I had a hard time sleeping Friday afternoon before the contest. Not sure I really got to sleep to be honest, but at least my eyes were closed and I was ho
Just a brief overview from my perspective... I had a hard time sleeping Friday afternoon before the contest. Not sure I really got to sleep to be honest, but at least my eyes were closed and I was ho
Rob, With all due respect... The contest isn't broken from your perspective. You are in one of the places where the WPX is surely a great contest. I'll bet KQ2M thought it was lots of fun also. Its p
I say let's not let emails like this one distract from the current discussion. There is nothing wrong with wanting to make a change for the better. 73 Bill - W4AN (ex WD9FNB, KM9P, N4VJ) -- CQ-Contes
Lots of things updated over the past couple of weeks. -Contest Stories. K5ZD has updated the post contest stories for this spring's contests. -Contest Scrumming. A must read. -WPX contest survey resu