"Will we as contesters be required to put a webcam in our shacks and expose ourselves to the world for 24 or 48 hours, to the whim of any voyeur who seems to find some reason to watch me operate a ra
No, the sensible response is, "OK" and then do it. That's what the contest rules require and have required for nearly 80 years. I am also forbidden to touch my golf club to the sand whilst getting o
Absolutely - whenever a competitive category is created, expect the competitors to enter it. Randy is spot on about consequences which are likely enough for a sponsor to avoid them. Proceed with cau
In contests with public logs, the entire data set is right there for the analyzing. There are parsers and analyzers (CBS.exe, for example) that find all sorts of metrics in a Cabrillo-formatted log
The contest runs from 0000Z April 14th to 0000Z April 15th and is now shown as "2nd weekend in April" so that should be a guideline for future contests. Note also that the log due date has been sign
Don't worry, the log checkers will find every bad guess and assumption :-) 73, Ward N0AX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://list
Jukka, there is another option that will surely become more popular: DX QSYs and starts another smaller pileup. Agreed that finding another frequency is not often easy but it may result in a higher
"Doctor, it hurts when I do this. So...don't do that!" So don't use normal computer generated CW! There are a number of things that prevent the Skimmer/RBN from spotting you - not sending "CQ", send
Good analogy to the 1500...I think of dithering your xmit frequency as drifting around in your "lane"...a full body elbow. Who said, "A clear frequency is where the needle comes off the right-hand pe
For folks who might be nervous about their string of Clean Sweeps :-) - - - - - - - - I have created a page on our web site to report CCO members planning to be active in SS. Also a reminder to every
Prasad VU2PTT reminded me that I'd left the VU International contest out of the 21 Nov issue of the Contest Update. It runs this weekend from 1200Z Dec 1 - 1200Z Dec 2 and the full rules can be found
An unfortunate cut-and-paste misfire resulted in omitting the RAC Winter Contest and Stew Perry TBDC contests from the lists of upcoming events - I've corrected the online version. The ARRL Letter sh
If you aren't doing anything in the afternoons this week, tune around the bands for school clubs getting on the air for a few contacts in the School Club Roundup - www.arrl.org/school-club-roundup <h
You were frequently spotted as TK5GO this weekend...I had no idea you were vacationing in Corsica, Stan :-) It's likely due to transmit leading-edge artifacts. The following "E" (as in K3LRE) is prob
The reciprocal operating treaty with Canada requires the /VE# to *follow* the call. Other country's rules may also specify that order, too. IMO the portable identification should preceed the call so
In my opinion, the biggest obstacle to maintaining the connected generation's interest in radiosport is how long it takes to figure out who actually won. The contests are fairly exciting and challeng
Internet access is becoming less of an issue every day. At normal QSO rates, even slow dial-up can handle the regular submission of an XML text packet describing a QSO. N6KT rates may require broadba
By publishing the number of hours worked with the score, using whatever time-on calculation the log-checkers feel is appropriate for that contest, it would be straightforward for an interested third-
By the way - this is not my original idea. Others have suggested this before, particularly Trey N5KO. Given the wider availability of data and tools, it may be an idea whose time has arrived. 73, War
If there is someone out there planning on being at the Dayton Contest SuperSuite *and* who has a video camera capable of recording an hour's worth of material *and* who wouldn't mind bringing it to t