Just received from Dan Henderson, N1ND at HQ. 73, Ward N0AX At its July 16 meeting, the Programs and Services Committee unanimously accepted and approved a recommendation from its VHF and Above Revit
Distance-based scoring really won't work for bands on which there is a skip zone. This is pretty well understood and precludes using it for bands from 40 through 6 meters. And you have to account for
Easy to say, hard to specify. I would certainly like to see a scoring system that works across a useful fraction of the world's countries and contest populations. And that does not require complex c
the competition between clubs and teams. almost anywhere to be competitive in SS, NAQP and Sprint. Hear, hear! Club and team competition is just terrific and really gets the juices flowing. The Paci
much aerodynamics You mean, "a plane that crashes a lot"? :-) Just kidding... We have to be careful not to turn the current game of skill into a game of chance. Any successful game of skill has to h
Paul is correct. Read the rules of the category. The word "assisted" leads to a multi-annual festival of confusion about whether assistance makes you Assisted. It does not. The problem is in the choi
I understand but I did not use the word "just" - meaning that is the only distinction. The primary distinction is what crosses the boundary but the sponsors can add any other criteria they want, such
arrl.org/rookie-roundup 1800 to 2359 today! Look for rookies calling CQ RR on the "50s" - 50 kHz above the band edge. If a non-rookie calls CQ, call CQ R. Exchange is name, check (like in Sweepstakes
There is a lot of activity on the digital modes just about all the time. You can tune upwards from 14.070 and hear a lot of signals, for example. PSK31 is very popular because it's easy, free (as far
Well, I know some contesters are known to keep a rather large specimen jug handy throughout the event. 73, Ward N0AX Perhaps the time has come where any serious contester (those who compete for an aw
might be one tale to tell I will think about this from the perspective of how a person might do an experiment to demonstrate the concept. I've already added material on stub placement to both the An
Yet observe an not Asia And there we have most of a very workable solution - compete regionally, report regionally, recognize regionally. Thanks, Prasad. Trying to come up with some kind of a comple
I kinda like the idea of a Flea Barn, myself... 73, Ward N0AX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/li
Another thing for the smaller station to consider is when it is practical to start a run. You might not be loud enough, the band might not be open enough, there might be too much QRM, etc. Start by d
See my Feb 2014 QST Hands-On Radio column about the Extended Double Zepp. It will work as an EDZ on 20 and 15 for sure and can be loaded up on 80-10 with a tuner, maybe 160 as well. To broaden the pa
First, I do agree with N9NB that there needs to be a bandwidth limit in the amateur bands - this has been confirmed by the FCC in numerous communications and opinions about overly-wide phone signals
By any objective measure, I am probably a certified geezer, too :-) I see CW as a viable, useful mode - regardless of whether it's fun or not - for a variety of things. It's simple to build CW rigs,
And if you have not had a CW QSO ruined by a RTTY station opening up on your channel, you have not spent much time running CW. As I said in 2005, most problems have behavior as their root, not bandwi
arrl - increase the bottom line dollars in the coffers!! It is a persistent canard that the ARRL is somehow "all about the dollars." (Note - I am not ARRL staff, just a Life Member who happens to wr
There are a lot of things in ham radio that don't particularly float my boat but I am willing to consider the use of our allocations by licensed amateurs to be "ham radio." I don't want to start off