DX Ham Radio Amateur Radio Articles Page 23

I didn’t stand it, and I decided to write a note to this subject.

I was surprised Americans decided to consider SOSB scores for WRTC 2014 selection.

Sea Water HF VHF Antenna Designers claiming 2-400 Mhz Difficult to believe :-)

Unfortunately, Roli was removed from contesting completely. He was removed by double DQ in CQ WW DX SSB and CW 2009.

As I noted in my previous interviews and articles, WRTC selection criteria are a bit far from perfection. In my opinion, corrections I’m going to tell you about might make the criteria more perfect.

I’m doing contesting long enough. My first ham radio Teacher and contesting Mentor is Gennady Shkumat, UA9AB (ex UA9AAP).

In other words, if one John will participate in SO category, but without two radios, he violates nothing, and his log will be accepted for refereeing, and he even might be able to get one of the high places between other Johns, and between more advanced and ambitious Joses, who use TWO sets of equipment instead of one, but nevertheless, participating in the same category as Johns.

Why did they not shout out “champions”, but “cheaters”? - First of all, they are jealous, - the dragon said reasonably, - Second, these people have no bloody idea of preparations for an official competition!..

The challenge of catching cheaters barehanded and their punishment has always been the most important element of HF and VHF sports communications. As far as our sports are basically extramural even in case of on- and off-site competition, a temptation to break the rules, cheat and not being caught in the same time is extremely great.

CQ WW DX SSB 2009 Contest Results are available

World Radio Team Championship - 2010 Final Results

I wrote Part One of the article in Russian for Russians but it turned out to be of significance for lots of other people besides russians.

I was seriously contemplating not dipping my paddle into this pond of abject silliness, but these words from K1TTT: "knowing when and how to use current technology always makes you a BETTER operator............." finally shoved me out of the boat.

Turning back to the CQ WW DX CW 2009 Observations. The last months W3ZZ has posted few messages but the questions about the time the inspectors spent on the observed stations have been ignored.

I have received a number of questions about my experience with the CQ WW observer program last November. I have also seen some online commentary about the performance of the observers.