Baseball and radiosport are not alike in many, many ways. It is a problem in any radio contest that intends to be a _competition_ as opposed to an "operating event" like Field Day or the Elecraft QSO
I think this is a pretty silly generalization to make based upon a single individual. Take me as a counter example. I've recently turned 30, but I've been a contester for almost 9 years. I've never d
Well, it's at least as likely a generalization as saying that because this one young Croatian contester likes packet, all young radio contesters are eagerly embracing packet as a part of contesting.
CQ-Contest is _the_ national forum for discussing and debating issues related to radio contesting, including contest rules. This is the appropriate forum for persuasive debate on these topics. It sou
http://www.qrz.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST&f=3&t=38400 An excerpt: "...One of the two hams who submitted the petition told the FCC they are motivated by interference problems caused by two group
There were over 3,000 logs submitted in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest, 2002. If everyone worked everyone else, that would be 9,000,000 log entries. That didn't happen, but then again, not everyone sends
The most important thing, in my opinion, is that the log checking be consistent and relevant to a particular contest. There are log checking issues relevant to the Sweepstakes that are not relevant t
In the July/August 2003 NCJ, Robert N6TV reports on the Contest Forum at the Visalia International DX Convention 2003 (I was not in attendance.) Something I read surprised me. N6TV writes "The fourth
Maybe someone can offer me advice on this. In my ideal solution, I would have a printer into which I could drop a stack of 3"x5" card stock glossy photo QSL cards, and out the other end would come th
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:48:48 -0500
Bill describes a moment on Sunday morning when a packet spot was sent out with his run frequency, but spotting the call A35RK, resulting in having to send "five or six" QSO B4 messages before the pil
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 09:45:22 -0500
If you are submitting your North American CW Sprint Log via the online manual entry form, double-check the date that the form automatically generates for your log. After you type everything in, the f
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:23:50 -0500
This past weekend, I operated in the phone sprint for the second time. I love the pace of the contest, and I think I improved my results from February. Being a nearly-complete neophyte to this contes
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:54:40 -0500
-- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R Department of the Computer Sciences Central Texas DX & Contest Club
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 19:18:15 -0500
It's been _two weeks_ since the system went online. -- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R Department of t
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:04:03 -0500
So, I received the following spam from AH2R. It was unsolicited email - although I have worked them in contests, I doubt that my own callsign has ever even shown up in their logs, and I certainly nev
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:53:19 -0500
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:33:14AM -0400: Yeah - So who cares if a station makes one or two well-disguised self-spots? That's pretty harmless, right? Who cares if they spend a few days before the con
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:12:06 -0500
The latter is the case. You can use either callsign, as your and the station owner's preferences dictate. In years past, the FCC would issue to Radio Amateurs both "station licenses" (to which a call
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:18:03 -0500
I'm not sure I buy this. Part 97.109 talks about control operators, and it's clear that in a station being locally controlled (as it would most likely be during a contest - it's not being remotely or
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:28:12 -0600
LogConv http://www.qsl.net/ka5wss/logconv/ -- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R Department of the Comput
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:18:22 -0600
I would recommend subscribing to the National Contesting Journal (NCJ.) See: http://www.ncjweb.com/ -- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu University of Texas at Au