Im resending this to a wider readership. Having been the author of the June VHF contest results for QST for several years (prior to FT8) I had all of the entrants scores. In a nutshell, 90% of those
Rick, Those are all great ideas and I would favor any and all of them. Digital bringing new activity is great and I am all for that even if I don't enjoy digital operation myself. But it also drives
Author: Jarred Jackson <Jarred.Jackson@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:41:26 +0000
In WNY, I observed casual contesters who stayed on the air much longer than they would have otherwise. Knowing where to go to find activity seemed to be exactly what they needed to stay engaged. Then
You won't find me on FT(#).ever. It's the exact opposite of why I like to contest on VHF, and generally just get on VHF. I like to say Hi to Paul(N1BUG), the crew @ W2SZ/1, Dave/K1WHS in FN43 etc etc
Conversely, I haven't had this much fun contesting ever! (26 years in the hobby) The WSJT suite has made contesting a reality for me. (I live in an area where the closest active vhf+ op is 150miles a
I must agree FT8 and MSK144 are great for making distant contacts especially. My main frustration with the way it's affected contests is even though it made the contact for you, you can't use it to c
I drive up mountains in rare grids across the Pacific NW and, like James, really appreciate the WSJT capabilities to make more contacts with more people at greater distances. It sure boosts my contes
No flames from me Dave. I think its great that your world has opened up, but I got into ham radio in the 1970s to use CW and to a lesser degree, voice (primarily SSB). I find that BECAUSE of WSJT, FS
Rick, Interesting thoughts. Maybe this is committee work, but if run as a separate digital contest there is no need for a points differential. I asked a good friend who is an accomplished HF operator
Some of the guys have also been tossing around the idea of whether the ARRL should just create seperate categories for those who want to compete with or without digital. There could be analog-only, d
Hi John, If you would want to assign different QSO points based on mode, then you would have to weigh grid multipliers by mode as well. Working a distant grid on CW is a lot easier than on SSB, for i
Rick, I agree and that is a road I don't think we want to go down. I did work the WW DX Digital contest and the distance scoring they used was kind of fun. How has it worked out in 222 and Above co
Ron, Very quickly - if one uses CW Skimmer or another decoder plus a contesting logging program and never touches the paddles but uses computer generated CW, is that an analog or a digital contact? J
DO WHAT?? That last sentence does not make any sense to me. AGAIN, AGAIN... 73 Marshall K5QE On 9/20/2019 11:24 AM, Ron Klimas WZ1V wrote: Some of the guys have also been tossing around the idea of