Hi all, Some history of technologies we use: At the beginning there must have been comments when spark transmitters were replaced by oscillating devices. I believe there were strict comments in the 1
Jukka has this absolutley correct! Everyone is forgetting the reason why we do what we do, FUN! Do I miss the days of working on dupe sheet for hours, & hours after the contest? Nope. Actually, compu
With 49 years of contesting behind me now, and only 35 more years to go, I dread to think what Jukka's Pioneers of the 21st Century will concoct next. Jim, you may have not noticed that two youngster
Or maybe it was just better, uh radio, operating on their part? I sure as hope hell we're NOT, repeat NOT, evolving to "who is the best computer operator"! Do YOU think this is what radio contesting
I gave up on packet few years ago as I enjoy finding mults by myself... I also stoped my automated CW contesting research decade ago. There are some of us Silver Tigers enjoying this weekend WRTC fro
The new and fancy tools a contester has at his disposal are a lot of fun and some enhance contesting quite a bit. But if I were to have to give up some of them, I'd propbably do it in this order: 1)
My annual contribution to the CQ-Contest reflector.... Since I was one of those mentioned, I figured I should reply. Dan and I tried to make use of the newest computer technology, however the logging
and conduct the competition on-line. Oh boy, I can >hardly wait for that one. Hey Jim, great idea. Just think, no tvi, no bothering the neighbors. I could sell all my rigs and buy some more computers
Hey wait a minute, this contest already exists. I think it's run on or about the first day of April each year. And I think Slug No.1 always wins. And I think there's a big bonus for QRT class. 73, ke
You must be referring to the Poisson d'Avril Contest? I thought I won that last year by default ... on porpoise, even. 73, Zack W9SZ "One man's drink is another man's Poisson ... " - "Riders of the P
-- think Yeah, ain't that a pain. I know of 2 years in a row I won that contest and he kept throwing out my Q's till he had a bigger score than me. Course, what do you expect when he does all the log
Ask Doug about the year I sent him my log by UPS in a box with a dead mackerel. (We both lived in NH.) I was put up to it by Barry at HRO in Salem. Not only did I NOT win (in spite of a masterfully c