N6TJ axioms of life: NO 546 Many appear to have the need to prove they're the best operator. NO. 547 Under present contesting rules and formats, the playing field cannot and will not ever be level. N
N6TJ wrote: Call CQ. Make a QSO. Then QSY at least 5KHz before CQing again. Tetris was much more sophisticated game but it was "Made in Russia"! Autokey and Writelog with CW decoder enabled are enoug
Only if you consider packet spotting not a part of operating. By now we are all aware that packet spotting exists, it has existed for many years, and it will continue to be a part of contest operati
It may be what many contesters use, but it is not a part of amateur radio contesting, any more than cell phones or digital cameras are a part of contesting. It is the internet, a separate wired profe
Using packet spots is a "point and click" substitute for the Radiomans skill of tuning his radio. 73, de Hans, K0HB -- "Just a boy and his radio" -- Proud Member of: A1 Operators - http://www.arrl.or
I will comment about your last paragraph David, since obviously you've never ran a contest pile-up from the DX end, when often hundreds are all calling on the same frequency. But then your statement:
N6TJ wrote: It's late, and now every time I read the word DUPE, it's increasingly looking like I wrote DOPE. Leave "DUPE"! It makes us Slavs laugh as it means "ASS" in our languages "DOPE" could be b
Howdy Jim! I really understand your position. Not only because it comes from the person that means to me what KH6IJ meant to you, but also because of your personal experience from the DX end of the p
My goal is not to operate 48 hours in a contest, its to keep 6 stations running for 48 hours in a contest! You can visit my web site and determine for yourself how serious I am about contesting... ri
Jim... Your comments about actual on the air experience reminded me of my own frustrations a while back. I had been using the Morse Runner application extensively for a long time (nightly for several
Jim, What you are missing is the fact that Cluster spots have increased your QSO rate very significantly, compared with the pre-Cluster days. Increased dupes, unfortunately, come along for the ride.
I live in a propagation craphole....the opportunities to run are short and limited. I might get spotted 5 or 6 times in a whole DX contest and at least 2 or 3 of those spots are going to be wrong. No
I was aware of that from the beginning and still don´t like it 73 Peter We kept our heads in sand about DX Cluster for 25 years and now comes surprise about some bad side effects. ___________________
I remember one busted spot on me where I tried IDing more often, QRS to 20 WPM, kept sending my call, but the same BIG USA multi-op stations kept calling, completely ignoring what I was sending. The
<snip> That is nonsense. There is no tradition of WRTC teams using spots. It does not happen, and I can say with confidence that it will not happen. 73, Paul EI5DI ___________________________________
<snip> My hobby is amateur radio contesting. Your's is something else - I suggest internet contesting. Just as there is a difference between the internet and amateur radio, there is a difference betw
It is easy for non-DX stations to assume that being spotted increases your rate. It does, but only until the number of calling stations becomes so large that you're left with a solid wall of CW tone
So we come back to the devious suggestions of jamming the cluster network with false spots for the entire major contest weekend to make it useless.... We have guys with the technology to analyse the
Suspect it's happened to many of us at one time or another. You know you've been spotted with a busted call, you are very deliberate sending your call, trying to tell those calling I'm really XX0XXX
I have to echo Kenny's lament. As an example, I can remember being incredibly frustrated in the middle of the night at P49Y in an ARRL DX CW contest when an erroneous packet spot caused a sudden flur