Another two cents by a small pistol (the group that won´t discuss about plaques, but builds the numbers in the competition between contests). First BIG THANKS to 5B4AGN and W6WRT, who reminded
Hello, just to get it straight: what would happen to my entry when I logged the KH6 with zone 22, K1xxx with zone 14 and all other qsos with a "wrong" zone, too? Would it even be possible to win a wa
Perhaps are busted Calls in spots a good way to get some facts. A comparison with the logs may give a hint how many trust and log directly only from the spots - at least with a relevant number of bus
de dl8mbs/mostly qrp Hello Hans et al, from my experience qrq isn´t generally better. In the qsb-case qrq is favourable as well as on a not too crowded 80 or 20m-band with a good signal strengt
Hi, with the goal to get as many participants and as happy as possible why not compare to running events: surely they have the marathon as most important category. But nearly all organizers add half-
Hello Kirk et al, I feel a misunderstanding about "competitor friendly contesting". It should not be about more wallpapers or watering down. My point is the better adaptation of contesting to the rea
Hello Doug et al., about your posting with exchange emails or, as in the olde days, do on the air! >You can contact those with whom you want to compete in a same somehow limited category. That sounds
Hello, interesting offer by BARTG in their 48-hours RTTY-spring contest: SOAB6 Single Operator All Band 6 hour. Entrants in this class must enter a log for the first 6 hours of their contest operatio
Hello, I´m not too familiar with the US buro service. But I wonder about the possible problem in answering foreign (not domestic) QSL cards via the buro. I can´t imagine it as a money pro
Hello, after the thread "Competitor friendly contesting", started in November 05 by Steve (ZC4LI), I looked for infos about operating time of contesters and found that RDXC calculates the operation t
Hello, a small idea about the "national competition" in IARU-contest with its intention to stimulate as much activity as possible which means at least medium-guns, too: Why not building the "national
Hello, for those interested in the activity time of contesters here another count through the times given by Russian DX Contest based on the claimed scores list for the 2006 event. There were 936 non
Just for the record I have to disagree with opinions like "Penalties for inaccuracy only punish the inaccurate, which is the way it should be" or "If you are not in the other guy´s log, then yo
Some opposition against statistic methods argues that they may not deliver 110 percent proof. IMHO it could be eased if we had different penalties like every real sport. Soccer or football games were
And how about the operation time also mentioned? About two thirds of the logsending participants operate less than halftime, about three quarters less than two thirds of the possible time. They/we ar
May be not true in all cases. During this years`s WPX CW I operated qrp and had quite a few stations terminating the efforts to establish an exchange by simply starting another CQ (after my last tran
But they do it in a public competition. If it were only for personal goals they could take any 42km and run against the clock. But they want to be competetive in a broader sense - they want the compa
Hello Derrick, as one from this strange writing profession may I ask, please don´t try overload and overkill attacking him with specialities (as seen from non-ham readers) like SO2R. Try to fin
Every organizer is free to make the "gentlemen´s agreement" part of the rules as some already do. Every organizer is also free to enforce this by penalties of his choice published in the rules,
So please go ahead and do it everytime on any day and discuss it with the ones to come to talk to you about it - even during weekdays the "holes" in the CW portion will be better than in the SSB part