subsequent Recently, I have been doing a similar approach. Logging on a yellow pad, entering it to a text file on the computer, then processing it into Cabrillo with a program I wrote some years ago.
Received this message Sunday (a bit late). I was on the sprint for about 1/2 hour near 0130, and heard nothing. Called CQ a few times on SSB and CW, with no response. If there was anyone on around he
My garbage cans are made of plastic. Didn't hear about that, but my longest 2 meter contact was with a mag mount stuck to the side of my car. Just a bit over 2300 miles. SSB, running about 20 - 25 w
I did want to thank David for his tales of 222 activities. Always great reading, even if I can't participate on the air. Alan _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing lis
Wouldn't that checklog still have the same effect that Doug wanted to avoid - by being checked, the stations he contacted and mislogged would still be penalized because he reported them wrong. Specif
Paul Bourque "is quoted as writing: "All equipment SHOULD be capable of communications at a range of at least 5 km." What we're essentially trying to prevent is having stations work each other from a
Thanks for the reply. I was reading: STTN.6. All equipment should be capable of communications at a range of at least 5 km. Contacts made between non-fixed stations, for example portable and/or rover
What would the reaction be if someone came up with a software package that interfaced with the digital software and did the entire digital contest without human intervention once started. That way,
Well, that is why I don't do the 222 and up contest. I expect I would abandon others that went to distance scoring. I have no desire to get a ruler and map out to figure the distance for contacts (th
using a cloud hosted QSY server and a QSY request client window or panel in the software. It's silly to transmit all this stuff on a crowded 3 kHz segment and a waste of time slots that could be used
ran 902 up was fine.? No matter what I did inside N1MM or on the Yaesu with RTS or DTR I couldn't fix it.? Listened and called CQ on 902 and 1296 for a couple hrs, no Joy, not surprised. Was it not p
we To below: the the So, if you are operating analog, and the band doesn't open in the first 5 minutes of the hour, you won't expect to work these guys. Sounds like this is a computer to computer co
stations, whether they're Single Operator or >Multioperator have figured out a method how to maximize their scores, by having unmanned stations running on FT8 >simultaneously in order to stay competi
I did, during the contest, on Sunday afternoon. On 6 meters, 2 meters, and 70 cm. Nobody answered. Didn't hear any other activity. Alan _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting m
As Jonesy noted, it appears that 3830scores.com does not have a SSL/TLS certificate set up from a certificate signing authority. Thus, the connection uses HTTP instead of HTTPS, or ignores it and con
Most of them did (6 and microwave may have differed). Look at the time zones given for 2, 220, and 432 start and end. They start in the east coast and end in the pacific. It would have made more sen