During the contest, especially at the beginning, some guys were sending serial number (or zone.) By the end of the contest, they corrected their ways. For example, I worked a guy at 0200Z Sat who gav
Barry.. I had exactly the same question several times during the contest. I must have made at least half a doz QSOs that seemed to be numbers rather than powers. I would hope that this "mistake" happ
During ARRL DX, On 160m, I got a 5991n6n, 3 times repeated, I think the guy sent his licence year ! About 50 VE/W had answered to my CQ's . I think ARRL should communicate more on the basic rules of
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:02:18 -0000
Maybe he WAS running 1969W :) I don't think it matters how much information is disseminated, you'll always have casual passers-by who neither know nor want to know about the rules. They just want to
particular Gilles, it has nothing to do with ARRL communicating with its members... Some folks just get on and have some fun. They don't read rules. They don't care about rules. It happens every yea
In the past the arrl log checkers have explained that they have ways to detect 'unstable' exchanges and discount them from the log checking process so the recipients don't get penalized. David Robbin
I'm assuming if a serial number or zone were being sent instead of power, it would show up in his log. Hopefully those stations send in their logs. I had a couple odd ones. One station sent "105" to
AHA! I wondered what that was. One of the other ops in our multi-op group logged it like that. 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contest
And it's a sure thing that if you delete them from your log, 90% will be sending you QSL cards and wanting one in return. ;-) Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mail
Good question. I worked a lot of different exchanges this weekend--ATT, NN, K, KW, T5T, TNN, TT5. Are we supposed to put in what we get, or what it is supposed to be? I guess TNN is shorter than 1TT
I believe the contest exchange is a simple thing for us, the Good Old Boys of the Contest Reflector: 1. Log what you hear. 2. In case you did not hear properly, humbly beg for a repeat. Then - if you