I believe it is a myth that a shorter call is "better" for working DX, or that you are better off using the "last two" technique... callsign (no matter what length) before replying to the "last 2" st
I have 2 extra tickets to the contest banquet that I will not need... Will AA4NC -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contesting.co
Being in the audio business (kinda), I already had audio mixers lying around when I first started using 2 radios. I have used an old Radio Shack 4 channel "disco mixer" for many years with good succe
Being in the audio business (kinda), I already had audio mixers lying around when I first started using 2 radios. I have used an old Radio Shack 4 channel "disco mixer" for many years with good succe
Doug has now exposed our W4 deep dark secret for generating pileups and pileup control. We rednecks have been doing this for years! When using this strategy, it helps to have current knowledge of NAS
200/hour for 24 and even 48 hours is possible and has been done... In the ARRL SSB 1990 from VP2E, we had 10,200 (unduped) QSOs (M/S) with a single TS440 / MLA2500, no second radio, paper logging, no
Aviation headsets have come a long way in the last few years. If you are going to go to an aviation type headset, I'd advise going for an electronic noise cancelling type. Most all of the major playe
Sept. CW Sprint W4MR (AA4NC operator): 248 x 46 I am trying to go over my performance (or lack thereof) in last night's Sprint to figure out just what I need to do to actually improve my score. In lo
Sept. CW Sprint W4MR (AA4NC operator): 248 x 46 I am trying to go over my performance (or lack thereof) in last night's Sprint to figure out just what I need to do to actually improve my score. In lo
Sept. CW Sprint W4MR (AA4NC operator): 248 x 46 I am trying to go over my performance (or lack thereof) in last night's Sprint to figure out just what I need to do to actually improve my score. In lo
The Battle Creek Special is not a commercially available antenna. There are 3 of these (I believe) in existence, and they are built by K8GG, W0CD, and W8UVZ. It is a trapped vertical that works 40,80
I am going to stack two 204BAs. One is currently mounted at 120'. Conventional wisdom has been to put the lower one at half the distance (i.e. 60'). Does this work out for those of you who have this
I'm getting ready for the VHF contest season, and need to get up a 6m yagi ( a Cushcraft 5 el. on a 12' boom). My dilemna is where to put it. The choices are: At 125' (halfway between a 402CD @130, a
I think AA4LR stated it very well: Why don't we do it this way in the ARRL DX Test? This will allow smaller multiops to be competitive, as well as allowing a "suitcase" expedition to be competitive i
With Fran bearing down on us, where is the best direction to aim antennas into prevailing possible gale force winds? I seem to recall that aiming yagis at 45 degrees into the wind was the best bet. A
Any aeronautical chart shows the magnetic variation, and is probably more frequently updated than any other government type chart (every 56 days). I wouldn't worry about the changes too much, since t
I'm looking for antenna software primarily for modeling stacked yagis, and their performance at various heights. I've seen some neat plots from EZNEC, and heard good things about NEC-WIN. What should
I hope that they didn't take out the best feature of the IC736 - a built-in power supply. That would make this a step backwards for those of us who bought 736s for their compact size / everything in
<< From: Fred Hopengarten, K1VR Six Willarch Road * Lincoln, MA 01773-5105 * 617/259-0088 e-mail: k1vr@juno.com Big antennas, high in the sky, are better than small ones, low. On Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:0