On the contrary, the problem will be in getting participants to accept the idea - I am amazed at how many IOTA contest participants expect certificates (or even plaques) for "winning" their country o
Not all contest adjudicators rely 100% on automation. For CQWW it is understandable that they have gone this way, because the task is huge. With the IOTA contest, which I manage, we use automated che
Which may be true but won't be a win-win for ever, because the contest will eventually disppaear up its own orifices! There's a side to this which hasn't been explored. The fact is that contests do c
What I should also have added to my previous post is that there is an inherent fallacy in the argument that one should necessarily subscribe to CQ Magazine to feel justified in entering its contests.
I recall Gary VE3XN (VE3GCU at the time?) operating G3/... from my QTH on the Saturday of WPX and being back in Canada in time to operate the last few hours of the contest from his home QTH! Don G3XT
Still wrong Ev. It all depends on which contest and which robot. There isn't some magic "robot in the sky". Every contest organiser has a different system. For the IOTA contest, for example, we certa
There are many portable rigs that would be more than adequate for single-op contesting in a DX environment. But there are far fewer rigs that would work if there were two or more of you trying to ope
I've been enjoying following this thread. I think I get it now. If you don't like a particular contest because the scoring system or the method of adjudication (or the time taken with certificates, o
A lot of the discussion here is missing the point. It's actually pretty easy these days, as a contest adjudicator, to see if anyone is using packet. Here's an example (and I'm currently completing ad
Surely in almost every sport the participants know how the competition is doing. We don't erect screens between the tracks on an athletic field, for example! Why would contesters want to be different
A final reminder that the IOTA contest is this coming weekend (29/30 July) 12z Saturday to 12z Sunday. Everyone can play island stations send RS(T) + serial + IOTA ref. Others send RS(T) + serial. Fu
There's only one way to truly level the playing field and that's to sit all the ops at a computer and get them contesting with Morse Runner or whatever. No variability in antennas, take-off angle, te
Just a few days more until the log submission deadline. Please submit your logs to iota.logs@rsgbhfcc.org We still appear to be missing logs from the following participants who each made a substantia
Those of you who submitted by e-mail should have received an e-mail telling you where to find the Provisional Results and also a personal URL taking you to your UBN (UBNs have been available for the
Take care John. A friend told me a similar tale recently. He took his good lady at her word and bought a MkV or something similar. When he told her the price she nearly filed for a divorce on the spo
This thread is getting exceedingly boring. How would it help if US stations got points for working each other? Yes, they would all end up with more points, but the leading US entrants would probably
This is to announce that the IOTA contest results appearing on the website (see below for URL) are now Final. There have been very few changes from the provisional results, but there were a couple of
Certainly couldn't have been this year Yuri - no Internet access from several of the WRTC operating sites. Don G3XTT (referee at one such site - no Internet and a "very" dodgy cellular signal - somet
Try doing this with single-band scores in CQWW and see if you get the same answer Jamie. Mults become relatively much more important when you are constrained by choice of category to a much smaller p
The question Pete is surely "universally accepted" for what? Why do people want QSL cards? 1. To decorate the shack wall and show to friends and family. 2. To apply for one of the thousands of awards