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PostHeaderIcon State QSO Party Focus Swings To Lone Star State

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
The number to remember is 254 - as in 254 counties in the state of Texas, as the 2009 Texas QSO Party hits the airwaves. Several dozen mobiles will make your job easier in this year's contest, as organizers say they have an outside chance of getting every Texas county on the air. It's now been 26 years since the late K4OJ made what's believed to be the only sweep in TXQP history.
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PostHeaderIcon CQ WW RTTY Looks For More Record Growth In 2009

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
After a 20 percent increase in logs from 2007 to 2008 provided a record number of RTTY contest entries, the sky is the limit for the 2009 CQ WW RTTY Contest, which kicks off this year's CQ WW contests. The defending champ is Ed Muns W0YK, who won in 2008 from Aruba as P49X. Again this year, very low solar activity means that the high bands could be weak again, making this a battle on 20 and 40 meters.
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PostHeaderIcon Washington State Salmon Run Next On State QSO Party Tour

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
This month has already seen QSO parties in Tennessee, Arkansas and Colorado - this weekend, the focus goes to the Pacific Northwest, where the Western Washington DX Club hosts the 2009 Salmon Run. It's all part of a state contest tour in coming weeks that will also go through Texas, California, Pennsylvania and Illinois, on the way to CQ WW SSB.
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PostHeaderIcon No Signals From CQ WW Contest Committee On "Private" DQ's

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
With fresh evidence in the CQ WW DX contests of possible "private" disqualifications being handed out by the CQ WW Contest Committee, contesters from around the world are urging a halt to that practice, calling for more public declarations of DQ decisions. "Naming and shaming is the only way to deal with premeditated and calculated cheaters," said one ham.
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PostHeaderIcon Top Multi-Single Score in 2008 "Disappears" From Results

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
The final numbers from the 2008 CQ WW CW contest do not include any mention of the top world claimed score in the Multi-Single category, as a radio-sport.net review of the latest results from CQ Magazine show that Team 4L0A's score simply "disappeared" from the final 2008 CQ WW CW results. Also missing, several top 40 meter scores that were evidently "privately" DQ'd.
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PostHeaderIcon Top Single Op Score in 2008 CQ WW CW Gets DQ

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
In a record setting year for public DQ's in the CQ WW DX Contests, a Russian contester who had the top CW single operator claimed score was disqualified, as the CQ WW Contest Committee continued its crackdown on cheating in the 2008 DX contests. Check out why CQ tossed out RD3AF's score from EF8M, but okayed YT1AD's winning effort from 3V8BB.
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PostHeaderIcon CQ WW Chief Fires Back On Contest Cheats

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
With the CQ WW Contest Committee under fire over its handling of possible cheaters in 2008, Contest Director Bob Cox K3EST fired back this past week, arguing the committee has done its best to ferret out those who are breaking the rules in CQ WW DX. Cox's PR offensive though left many questions still unanswered about who might get a CQ WW contest visit in 2009.
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PostHeaderIcon New CQ WW Rule Would Give Contest Cheats One Year CQ Ban

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
Grappling with how best to deal in the future with high profile disqualifications in the 2008 CQ WW DX Contests, the CQ WW Contest Committee has decided to toughen the punishments for all of those who are DQ'd, by broadening the penalties into other contests run by CQ Magazine.
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PostHeaderIcon CQ WW Rule On Contest Checks Drastically Expanded

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
With no public comment from the CQ WW Contest Committee, a controversial new rule dealing with third party contest visits for the 2009 CQ WW DX Contests was widely expanded in recent days, shifting the emphasis from specific stations suspected of cheating to all possible high contest scorers.
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Big Fall But Quick Return For W2GD/P40W
It was barely four months ago that John Crovelli W2GD fell during a tower accident in Maine, an accident that left him in the emergency room with a broken pelvis and other injuries. While Crovelli won't be at P40W for CQ WW SSB this year, he is clearly on the mend and ready for 48 hours of action.
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It's Official: N2IC Breaks WP3R SS CW Streak
Ending the winning streak of WP3R, Steve London is the official winner of the 2007 November Sweepstakes CW Contest. Go Inside The Numbers on SS CW with radio-sport.net to get a different look at the 2007 results and see how well you did when it came to log checks.
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Buckeye State Kicks Off State QSO Party Run
AKicking off two months of top flight state QSO party contests, the Ohio and Hawaii QSO Parties are the only tests on the schedule for the coming weekend. It's all part of eleven different state-based contests that run through Texas, California, Pennsylvania and more!
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State QSO Party Shootout Hits Peach State
Contesters and county hunters get the chance this weekend to participate in one of the fastest growing state QSO parties around, as hams in Georgia will entertain US and DX stations alike. Also find out which multi-state QSO Party is no longer on the contest schedule.
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Washington State Salmon Run Next On State QSO Party Tour
This month has already seen QSO parties in Tennessee, Arkansas and Colorado - this weekend, the focus goes to the Pacific Northwest, where the Western Washington DX Club hosts the 2009 Salmon Run. It's all part of a state contest tour in coming weeks that will also go through Texas, California, Pennsylvania and Illinois, on the way to CQ WW SSB.
read full article
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