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181. Re: [CQ-Contest] DXC Entry Reclassified to High Power (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 20:18:49 +0200

Am 06.10.2016 um 18:10 schrieb Drew Vonada-Smith: Tossing out every contact that is a nuisance to verify is no solution. Tossing out uniques that are causal contacts is also baloney. These contacts a

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182. Re: [CQ-Contest] RDXC Entry Reclassified to High Power (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:08:08 +0200

Pete, could you please specify the intended consequences for those contests and national radio leagues and clubs not obeying to this world contest governing body? ARRL should present a planned DQ to

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183. Re: [CQ-Contest] RDXC Entry Reclassified to High Power (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 17:20:06 +0200

Ron, you misunderstood me. My point is whether it should be meant that any contest organizer like ARRL or VERON really should obey to any informal "group of the wise guys" before that organizer is al

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184. [CQ-Contest] Reminder: WAG this weekend (score: 1)

Author: DL8MBS <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 19:18:01 +0200 (MEST)

Dear contesters, just want to remind you of Worked All Germany (WAG) Contest this weekend starting Saturday 1500 UTC. We expect comparatively good condx and up to 2000 German stations on the air. All

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185. [CQ-Contest] Reminder: WAG logs are due (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:57:17 +0200

Hi Contester, before you dive completely into WWDX please check your PC for a possibly still unsent log from Worked All Germany Contest. The two dozen ops with four digit QSO numbers may know that by

/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2016-10/msg00339.html (7,319 bytes)

186. [CQ-Contest] Raw scores WAG 2016 (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 11:52:14 +0100

Hello contesters, the raw scores of WAG 2016 before logcheck are published at http://www.darc.de/der-club/referate/dx/contest/wag/ergebnisse-aktuell/ Please check for correct category and a score in

/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2016-11/msg00006.html (7,351 bytes)

187. Re: [CQ-Contest] When it's over, it's over (again) (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 17:55:58 +0100

Am 11.11.2016 um 15:25 schrieb W0MU Mike Fatchett: We are working contests with the same archaic rules and systems for lots and lots of years. People give me pretty strange looks when I say yeah I ta

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188. Re: [CQ-Contest] Thing that drive me nuts (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 19:38:43 +0100

Am 03.12.2016 um 15:13 Kevan Nason quoted IARU paper: "Why is the word *contest* the last word in your contest CQ? Because by doing so, someone who happens to tune across your frequency at the end of

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189. Re: [CQ-Contest] Don't EU stations use the RBN feeds? (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:13:10 +0100

About cluster/RBN/skimmer usage, figures from the 2015 WAG survey: 426 German participants: Q: Do you use: Clusterspots 61% RBN-Spots 25% Own Skimmer 3% Nothing of the above 37% 85 English speaking r

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190. Re: [CQ-Contest] Don't EU stations use the RBN feeds? (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 23:37:12 +0100

Hi Pete, it is Q31 from the files with the full Q&A set plus freetext comments at the bottom of the linked page http://www.darc.de/der-club/referate/dx/contest/wag/en/newsarchives/survey-2015/ Its wo

/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2016-12/msg00192.html (13,624 bytes)

191. Re: [CQ-Contest] NAQP Revised Rules (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:53:47 +0100

Am 16.12.2016 um 16:39 schrieb .. VE5ZX: Now I will crawl back into my hole before the guns start blazing Well immunized against any comment with differing opinion... Thinking about marathon runners

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192. [CQ-Contest] Final results of WAG 2016 (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 12:19:20 +0100

Hi contesters, the final results of WAG 2016 are published on our website: http://www.darc.de/der-club/referate/dx/contest/wag/en/ Below the webreport are some additional spots of experience about th

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193. Re: [CQ-Contest] Allowing self-spotting (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 14:14:36 +0100

What a huge potential in the proposals for selfspotting: Allowing them in unlimited number will force competitors to use this tool to the max thus evolving sophisticated software schemes to optimize

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194. Re: [CQ-Contest] Rule Enforcement - why not power cheating? (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 06:06:51 +0100

Am 26.02.2017 um 22:46 schrieb Pete Smith N4ZR: Vince, if someone showed up at your door, identified himself, and showed you a letter from the contest committee asking him to visit you during the con

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195. [CQ-Contest] Fieldstrength values from SDR recordings (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:06:33 +0100

Hi, an update of software HDSDR now allows to extract fieldstrength values from SDR recordings (several per second). I played a bit with CW and SSB signals from our TopTen stations in 2016 http://www

/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2017-03/msg00515.html (8,492 bytes)

196. Re: [CQ-Contest] My need re contests to self spot (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:13:26 +0200

If this is the reality of seemingly too many ops being unable to find a station without someone putting a spot on the net, then we will have more and more cries to allow selfspotting (for the sake of

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197. Re: [CQ-Contest] Self spotting should be legal (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 22:44:48 +0200

Am 17.04.2017 um 21:41 schrieb Dennis McAlpine: Certainly, the Committee doesn't know if I am doing it on purpose or not You would try to monitor him that closely for hours on six bands so that you c

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198. Re: [CQ-Contest] Self-spotting explanation from CQWW blog (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:40:12 +0200

Allowing selfspots means CQing on the internet including twitter and Facebook postings with an attracting picture, announcement "Now on 21250 beaming XYZ", written in languages of the target area. It

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199. [CQ-Contest] From the OT-awards section ;-) (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 16:52:25 +0200

Couldn't resist to share this link about a regular contributor and his chores distracting him from the only relevant contesting activities ;-) https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/autos/news/articles/ke

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200. Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW SSB 2017 Effective DQ (score: 1)

Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>

Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:19:32 +0100

IMHO it cant't work in any competition to apply different rulings amongst the participants of the same category. You can have a separate category or league where all the selected have to play by diff

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