Stirring the pot a bit - why is the "beads on a string" metaphor of tuning through a one-dimensional RF spectrum necessary? Certainly, this has been the way we have envisioned radio since the invent
Just to stimulate discussion, here's an idea for the "Alice and Bob (ALBO) QSO Party" :-) For the exchange, each station sends a fixed-length hexadecimal character group (characters 0-9 and A-F) that
There are some data processing issues holding things up but Contest Branch Manager W1MSW is working away at them. Line Scores and LCRs are at the top of the list and they will be generated as quickly
I hate to bust the collective bubble of self-importance but the ARRL staff is not sitting around painting their toenails while keeping an eye on cq-contest to see what people are complaining about.
Hello contesters - as the log checkers and writeup authors do their work, it would be terrific if the IARU HF Championship results were brought up to date. The records were previously maintained by t
It should be held on Sept 19th the official Talk like a pirate day! It is:Friday evening on the 19th in North America; 1830-2030 PDT Avast! 73, Captain Silver, NĜAX __________________________________
Maarten, No one is suggesting that political, social, and, indeed, human consequences of conflict be overlooked, just that amateur radio has always been considered an inappropriate forum for those co
In the most straightforward scenario, what you are proposing is a rule change to Sweepstakes and the 160 Meter Contest to change the traditional multiplier structure from "RAC Sections" to the hybrid
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I don't the issue is as much about spectrum efficiency or channel characteristics as it is of the session-level protocol for RTTY and PSK31, for which there really isn't one. Both are "connection-les
The SCR starts on Monday - if you know of anyone or a club needing logging software for the contest,Lew N2RQ relayed that Scott N3FJP has just posted a new Windows-based logging program for the Schoo
is going to do that. Who among us has ever actually watched someone operating a radio contest? /sarcasm_on CW or RTTY contest: [15 minutes of silence and keyboard clicking] Dammit! [more silence and
QRI ? = How is the tone of my transmission? QRI The tone of your transmission is... 1. good. 2. variable. 3. bad. 73 Ole - oz4o I recommend QDQ. 73, Ward N0AX _______________________________________
In any contest on bands for which there is a skip zone, distance-based scoring will not work. Imagine how hard it is to work a station on 10 meters 200 miles away by backscatter compared to, say, 250
The ZLs suffer even more than you. I once made a giant spreadsheet about twenty years ago which calculated average distance between all of the DXCC entities and the ZLs were about one hop worse than
the Contest profound Amen. It makes my brain hurt just to think of the hours expended on this. It's too easy to hit Send without considering all this is volunteer-based and largely uncompensated wor
because I think mostly they don't want to talk about it because it would be a huge amount of work :-) Back in 1995 (May 1995 NCJ), I published with K3NA a system for operator rating based on regiona
See my ARRL DX Phone writeups between 2003 (or something) and 2013 - we had an excellent team of authors providing regional analysis from each ARRL Division and for the non-NA continentals. The final
worldwide I made a proposal some years ago for a "coverage" contest that could be run as an overlay to any existing contest. Extra points would be awarded based on the number of clock hours (0000-00
Only for QRP categories. 73, Ward N0AX 73, de Hans, K0HB -- _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listi