Require anyone with a potential top 5 category placement to submit a recording of all 48 hours of the contest effort along with their log. Clicking packet spots unassisted? Easy to spot. More than on
This qualifies as the runner-up entry for "LVIPCQCRTY" Award. (Least Viable Idea Posted on CQ-Contest Reflector This Year") The winner of the "LVIPCQCRTY" Award is "Let's make everyones log public".
Really? It was such a bad, non-viable idea that the WRTC-2006 in Brazil implemented it as a rule requirement. If you're serious about trying to win, set up a recording device on your computer and rec
Great idea Scott! Sometimes the simplest solution is the best. This is one of the best ideas I've heard, and would love to see it. Of course, it would be fought every step of the way. There are lots
WRTC is a small handful of stations in a strictly controlled ("level playing field") environment. Those conditions and restrictions aren't remotely representative of "contesting in the wild". 73, de
This qualifies as the runner-up entry for "LVIPCQCRTY" Award. (Least Viable Idea Posted on CQ-Contest Reflector This Year") The winner of the "LVIPCQCRTY" Award is "Let's make everyones log public".
Mid June sometimes I turn on 6m and find a contest going on, so I pass out a few points. Then it starts to rain and I stay on and play some on 2m and 70cm. I send a log in and get a certificate. I di
So what? WRTC is a limited event with a limited number of competing stations. To require everyone who HOPES he might have a chance to win to record all 48 hours or to DENY anyone who might be lucky
So now I have to record an entire contest somehow and if by chance my hard drive crashes on the way back to the USA my score does not count.... Why not require all logs to be submitted electronically
This is 21st century.... What tape you are talking about. Get yourself cheap MP3 player with line input and 1-2Gig of memory and you can easily record 48 hours 2 radio and get file transferred to you
Sorry Scott. No. Absolutely not. I have limited enough resources to devote to my station (and quite a few antenna updates & redesigns to implement at the new QTH). Forcing me to spend any of my limit
You're talking a whole different ball of wax there. I usually participate as a QRP-portable in the VHF contests. There is no such thing as a QRP-portable entry in most HF contests. I manage to cram e
W4PA: There are already a number of high scoring ops that are habitually recording themselves operating contests already. Unforunately there are number of high scoring ops who do not even claim score