Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:23:41 -0600
I have written a Perl program that can read in multiple Cabrillo logs for the ARRL January, June, and September VHF contests, and compute eight different scores - variations on the current scoring fo
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 09:59:11 -0500
http://dayton.akorn.net/pipermail/topband/2004-April/019316.html W4AN was the man responsible for eham.net and contesting.com (the system that supports this email reflector,) as well as an excellent
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 10:17:36 -0500
I do not find that at all unfortunate. Radio contests should not be about using the telephone or the internet to make contacts. They should be about using the radio to make contacts. The broader ques
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 16:42:14 -0500
Going through the section records for the ARRL June VHF QSO Party: http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/june-vhf-section-records.html, I notice that there have been no claimed scores _ever_ in the fo
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:51:49 -0500
I have generated maps of the locations of contest participants in the 2002 and 2003 ARRL June VHF QSO Parties. I start with the tab-delimited scores databsae for the contest, match up callsigns with
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:35:42 -0500
What you would need is another field in the online line scores database that listed the sent grid squares. It would be structured like the Ops field to include multiple grids for rovers. -- (Note: I
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:23:43 -0500
By popular demand, I've made maps for the January and September VHF contests as well: http://www.wm5r.org/maps/2002janvhf/ http://www.wm5r.org/maps/2003janvhf/ http://www.wm5r.org/maps/2002junvhf/ ht
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 08:56:27 -0500
The _National Contest Journal_ (NCJ) has some great VHF contesting articles in the Jul/Aug 2004 issue, including: "How I Built a Rover" by K1KC "The VHF QRP Portable Category" by W9GKA "More on the M
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:57:41 -0500
The QST review for the Icom IC-7800 is now online: http://www.arrl.org/members-only/prodrev/pdf/pr0408.pdf The review includes a section by K7BV on the IC-7800 on six meters during the ARRL June VHF
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:48:30 -0500
The ARRL Board of Directors is meetig this weekend. Will this be the weekend that some of the VHF contest rules changes proposals are to be decided upon? -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:11:30 -0500
Last I checked, neither W3ZZ nor N6TR are Directors, nor are they on the Membership Services Committee. W3ZZ has been an invited expert on the Membership Services Committee's VHF-UHF Contest and Awar
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:14:15 -0500
Ah yes, now we get the conspiracy theorists who think that the real reason for the proposed rules changes is to cause the demise of the contests by slowly killing it (in an effort to fool us all, hah
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:24:30 -0500
The ARRL is not the only game in town - CQ Magazine sponsors a VHF contest, the East Tennessee DX Association sponsors some, and does SMIRK and a few other obscure clubs. The ARRL has just been _by f
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:30:02 -0500
I think it does. How else will they know what the League membership wants? The Section Manager is not the right person to have talked with about that. You should have interacted with your Division Di
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:04:29 -0500
Yes, they can, and occasionally are, in fact. -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.com/ _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VH
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:13:03 -0500
The rule change proposals were developed by the VHF Contesting subcommittee of the Membership Services Committee, and were widely posted by K1KI on behalf of the committee. You can read them here: ht
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:30:16 -0500
The outcome of the meeting was posted on this very reflector, yesterday, by K1KI: http://lists.contesting.com/_vhfcontesting/2004-07/msg00080.html Perhaps you missed it? The ARRL Spring Sprints were
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:32:50 -0500
I received it just fine. All of the messages sent to the vhfcontesting reflector are archived online at: http://lists.contesting.com/_vhfcontesting/ W4RX has even commented on Tom's post. There may b
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:17:38 -0500
I don't think there are too many contests, especially on VHF+. If you do not have or do not want to be on the microwaves, there are really only three ARRL and one CQ contest all year long that attrac
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:38:30 -0500
This implies that the committee looking into potential VHF contest rules changes lacks the qualifications to do so. I think this is patently false. The members of the VHF Contest Rules Subcommittee a