Your argument (#1) assumes that people want to change the rules to get a better shot at winning. That is not the case. I just want SOMETHING for working a K2. I dont care if you and Bob beat me by a
And put on the fax that you would like to volunteer to do the work of getting everyone else's certificate out too. Common guys... N8BJQ does this as volunteer work. You have NO IDEA how hard it is t
OH NO!!! Let's see... If you and 10 other W6 guys dont go out of the country.... That means I work 680 mults instead of 690. Dxpeditions in the ARRL and CQ DX contests are really appreciated. A mult
This idea was thrown out by Tom (N4KG) only as a "How would you like it" scenario. I don't believe this discussion is a "Lets make everyone equal" type of discussion. That will never happen, why try
Thanks to Tom Hammond, N0SS, we have a few snipets of previous years pile up contest tapes. You can download them via the web at http://www.contesting.com. Look for the link from there. 73 Bill, W4AN
I've developed an automated collection mechanism for rate sheets on www.contesting.com. If you are using Netscape Navigator you just point on the rate sheet you want to upload and tell us what contes
Thanks to Mike (KC7V) I have some pictures and editorial on the www.contesting.com of his antennas. It's a very impressive station in the Arizona desert near Phoenix. I stopped by Mike's place over C
I came in to contesting about the time Yuri's magazine was starting. I remember subscribing and I guess losing money. I was all of 19 years old. As I recall, I was pretty much moneyless all of the ti
Thanks to Dave (KM3T) we now have last year's pileup tape on www.contesting.com available through a Real Audio feed. I copied the tape through the feed and it sounded great. 73 Bill, W4AN Bill Fisher
Wouldn't it be nice if the contest program gave an effective rate for contests where the QSO point distribution is different for the low bands? Switchable of course to regular old rate. Last 10 QSO's
VAA21285 Sender: owner-cq-contest@contesting.com Precedence: bulk X-Sponsor: W4AN, KM3T, N5KO & AD1C W4AN WPX CW 1997 I always thought that keeping in shape helped my contesting. Something about the
I always thought it would be a neat feature for multi's to be able to set up a ring of multiops that you exchange bandmap information with during the contest. The bandmap info could be updated with t
If you are maintaining a WWW site of contest records could you please pass me the URL ??? I would like to add a section to the web site which will point people to these records. Is anyone compiling t
VAA21285 Sender: owner-cq-contest@contesting.com Precedence: bulk X-Sponsor: W4AN, KM3T, N5KO & AD1C W4AN WPX CW 1997 I always thought that keeping in shape helped my contesting. Something about the
VAA21285 Sender: owner-cq-contest@contesting.com Precedence: bulk X-Sponsor: W4AN, KM3T, N5KO & AD1C W4AN WPX CW 1997 I always thought that keeping in shape helped my contesting. Something about the
In CQ Magazine this month the rules of the IARU read as follows: Categories: Single Operator, CW only, phone only, and mixed modes. Multi-Operator, single transmitter, mixed mode only. Stations must
Ken, K4ZW (Ex KE9A/4) was nice enough to send me his 80M single band log from WPX CW. I was interested in seeing what he was working. The one thing that stands out to me is the lack of USA guys that
I don't wait. If he doesn't sign his callsign in what I believe is a reasonable amount of time... he gets my call dumped at him. When it becomes more of a problem to not sign than it does to sign, t
Please <<<<PLEASE>>>> do not send messages like this to a reflector. 99% of the people on the reflector do not even know you, not to mention that they dont care about your email address changing. The
I dont know anyone that is serious about contesting in the northeast that is optimizing antennas with no concern for F/B. Everyone I know is trying to maximize it. If I lived there, I'de be trying t