Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:26:34 +0200
Jim, In my humble opinion, playing Judge, jury and executioner is not the way to go. The operators/stations that get a lot of NIL's will check there UBN reports and might want to return te favor in t
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:53:52 +0200
Mike, I don't think that's realy fair to CQ. I'm under the impression that if there is one sponsor that tries to do something about cheating, it's CQ magazine. However, I think it's a shame that chea
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 17:16:05 +0200
I agree with the previous posters and wish Randy all the best in his new position. 73, Maarten PD2R Op dinsdag 2 oktober 2012 schreef ANDREI STCHISLENOK (nc2n@inbox.com) het volgende: -- 73, Maarten
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 17:18:21 +0200
Congratulations Dick, great job! 73, Maarten PD2R Op dinsdag 2 oktober 2012 schreef BP Veal (bryonveal@msn.com) het volgende: -- 73, Maarten PD2R _______________________________________________ CQ-Co
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:56:06 +0200
Randy, Is the following still allowed? A: "CQ contest PI4DX" B: "W3X.." A: "W3X? 59 14" B: "W3X*YZ* 59 5" A: "YZ thanks, PI4DX" Or do I have to repeat the entire callsign? 73, Maarten PD2R PI4DX Cont
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:40:41 +0200
Gentlemen (and perhaps any YL's reading this), Doug KR2Q brought the following link to my attention: http://www.cqww.com/rules_2012changes.htm Rule XII.2 says it all: *Rule XII.2 - Log only the call
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:26:38 +0200
I.m.h.o. QSYing to another band and calling CQ but not actually making a QSO on that band, doesn't count as a band change. Only if you actually make a QSO on that band, the logcheckers can see that y
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:49:40 +0100
Always check the zone the log program suggests(!) before you hit the "enter" button, esspecially with stations from countries divided in several CQ zones such as the US, Canada en Russia. In other pa
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:35:17 +0100
I certainly can remember my first certificate! In my case it wasn't that long ago, it must have been the year 2008. I emidiately bought a frame to put it in so that I could put it on the wall in the
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:53:06 +0100
I agree with Steef 100%. I have been following the discusion on and off and in my opinion some of the reactions are out of line. Come on guys, we know better than that. Kudos to Randy. 73, Maarten PD
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:38:52 +0100
If a mult gets spotted and you work him only seconds after the mult gets spotted, than that's suspicious. If this happend multiple times it's beyond suspicious. That's one of the tell tale signs of a
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:24:29 +0100
Hi Geoffrey, I seriously doubt that. When I go to the local club and listen to the contesters, by far the most of them don't want to run on a frequency. They can't/won't handle the stress, it's as si
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 14:42:37 +0100
Hi Jim, That fact that NA station receive two points for intra-continent QSO's has to do with the simple fact that there aren't many countries in the continent of NA. Basically you only have The Unit
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:14:17 +0100
Hello Ron and Barry, If you didn't submit a log, then how are they supposed to know your email address? You honestly can't expect them to go through all the logs, and search for all the email address
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:21:50 +0100
*Brian C4Z / 5B4AIZ said * * Having said that I do not believe that there are many serious contest operators who do not read this list and those ops that do are the ones who matter, the ones who make
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 10:55:20 +0200
Best 24 out of 48 should work just fine. In a 48 hour period you always have slow hours. It doesn't make sense to keep operating in those low hours. And even if someone decided to operate 48 out the
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 16:05:27 +0200
What Rick NQ4I really states is that the WPX contest does not follow their objective and therefore the rules should be changed. I checked the WPX rules to see what their exact objective is and this i
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 18:35:43 +0200
When I tell people that my hobby is amateur radio, they usually ask me if I play music on air. I then try to explain what amateur radio is all about and tell them that one of the things we do is comm
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 11:17:34 +0200
They want reduce the penalties for NIL and busted call's so that the novice contester doesn't get deterred by a negative result after log checking. They, and so do most of us, try to get more partici
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:00:41 +0200
No, that is perfectly legit. Your not using external data such as QRZ or a DX cluster to verify callsigns, your just correcting a typo. Nothing wrong with that. As for the zone "problem" regarding U.