ZL6QH...WTF!?!?!
Seen on the Wellingtonista sidebar news feed:
ZL6QH LEADS OCEANIA IN 2006 CQ WPX CW CONTEST
Now I’m no "1337 H4x0R" yet neither am I "teh n00b" but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what the heck this story is about.
Any of you readers know?
Well, there is certainly nothing l33t or new about this, the joys of ham radio.
CW - being continuous wave ( as apposed to CQ, which is ) is morse code. CQ is a all stations call, however in this case it is referring to a ham radio magazine heh.
The score card is here:
http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/World-Wide%20WPX%20Contest902.pdf
QSO = A conversation between two radio operators, i.e. contacts.
And you have a number of prefixes per country/region. As you can see in the winner, he has a ZL6 prefix, I know a couple of ZL4's as well. ( ZL being NZ, the number being a region within NZ )
So a score of ~12,000,000 means he contacted a CRAPLOAD of various prefixes, on different bands. And all by morse code.
that site is a gold-mine of geeky tech talk. I love it...
"The 15M band was not much better with DX QSOs being limited to the South Pacific area, a few VE stations, VU2UR, and ZC4VJ (1st QSO in the log at the start of the contest). I could not find any trace of G signals."
Pesky G signals.
dam newbies wit lack of da mad skilliz. lol. lylywldl
http://www.cqwpx.com/rules.htm
From that link above I got this example:
Exchange: RS(T) report plus a progressive contact three-digit serial number starting with 001 for the first contact. (Continue to four digits if past 999 and five if past 9999.) Multi-operator, multi-transmitter stations use separate serial numbers for each band. Your log MUST show the correct serial number sent and received for each contact
It's all English words I know but I don't know what that sentence means.



Radio hams.
ZL6QH is someone's official NZ call sign. CQ is signalling morse code. The other abbreviations are also ham/morse related but I lost interest in that stuff 20 years ago. I presume someone's won a morse code speed challenge.