"For those of us who have been around amateur contesting a while (1966 here), you probably called the assistant who listens to the QSO and records the QSO details a "logger." A single-op station coul
On 10/11/2023 7:51 AM, Art Boyars wrote: "For those of us who have been around amateur contesting a while (1966 here), you probably called the assistant who listens to the QSO and records the QSO det
He may have been thinking about Field Day, where clubs not all that into They're still out there...I'll go to a club FD every once in a while, and they'll say something like "we'll try to find you a
Re: [CQ-Contest] "Back in the day" -- Single- or Multi-op? Hey Art, (good 4 u for moving this to the correct forum) I won't "out" the guy that made that statement over on the N1MM forum, but OBVIOUSL
Author: JIM STAHL via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:46:29 -0400
Today we all have loggers. They are called computers . Especially useful for filling out the Op Aid 6. 73 - Jim K8MR Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mai
Many years ago I was involved with a couple of operations using human loggers. Complete disaster as the operator and the logger did not always have the same info. In my case we were both usually SO c
I agree with Art. 73, John, K4BAI. Contesting since 1955. "For those of us who have been around amateur contesting a while (1966 here), you probably called the assistant who listens to the QSO and r
John started out about 18 months ahead of me. I was able to use 1x3 dupe sheets in my first contests, which were FD, SS, and CD parties. 2x3 calls came along a year or two later. Several years ago, c
I agree with you Art that doing such does make you a Multi. I don't think any of us disagree. That thread was talking about N1MM's Partner Mode which is a feature used in Multi category entries. It d
This is now. That was then. Rules can be changed. Back then, the key word was Multi-OP. If the person was not actually OPERATING, he was not considered an operator. So a Single-OP could have someone
Yes. Contesting has changed drastically over the years. When many of us started, we logged on paper and kept paper dupe sheets. There were no memory keyers. And then there was one that kept track of
Our club used loggers during Field Day as a way to get newbies partially involved with the QSO. Newbies would have trouble making the contact and working the computer at the same time. Half an hour t
Tools are tools, Jim - thank goodness that progress continues. 73, Pete N4ZR Yes. Contesting has changed drastically over the years. When many of us started, we logged on paper and kept paper dupe sh
Author: "Dave G. ve3kg@myrac.ca" <goodwindave.73@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:02:05 -0400
Art K3KU asked an interesting question. A person acting as a "logger" is an impediment. Anyone who has ever witnessed a Field Day effort by hapless, well-meaning non-contesters will know that the cor
I remember back in the late 60's when you had to keep dupe sheets for Field Day. Everything was on paper. We had huge sheets of paper that had each callsign area (0 through 9) divided into columns wi
But Field Day is not a contest. I know some people treat it as a contest, but it isn't. Even the rules specify that you only need to send in "An attached list of stations worked by band/mode during t
Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 22:39:22 +0000
Back in the 70s and into mid 80s, you needed a person to maintain the dupe sheet and to scream out DUUUUUPE as they found it. It definitely slowed down one operator back then to do both. FD allowed t
I remember in the days where high tech for CW was a pair of paddles and a Hallicrafters TO-Keyer. I was able to teach myself to write left handed while the paddles were still right handed. Never got
Back in the 70s and into mid 80s, you needed a person to maintain the dupe sheet and to scream out DUUUUUPE as they found it." Surely the writer has mis-spoken. Each Single Op maintained her/his own
That's the big lie I've never bought into. Indeed, it was my first contest, my "gateway drug," and I'd bet also for a large fraction of contesters, at least those of my generation. 73, Jim K9YC _____