It would be hard to believe that an insurance company would consider that picture anything but a total loss given the simple construction and cost of repair. Going from that check to Ed's dream would
I am glad for those who love it. Really. But this "big brother" "app" mentality that goes along with FT (X) would be a non-starter for me. Don't try and disable my modes bro.... Ed N1UR FT4 will be d
Dave, A well constructed statement although since the human ear cannot be constrained to 6hz bandwidth, to my knowledge, the fact that a system can detect it in such conditions, doesn't make it "audi
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Joe, I use one going into the RCV antenna port of my FT1000MPs. I often use beverages with dual radio same band (160 - 40) and this type of product insures no blown receiver front end. 73 Ed N1UR A u
Joe, The Passband filters are really for close in overload rejection of radios on different bands. They don't protect in the technical sense. If the spacing of the stations is at least 150 ft and you
Congratulations to WWROF and the Slovenia Contest Club for sponsoring this contest. It not only captures the FT8/4 interest but has the distance based and everybody works everybody format that so man
That sounds like a pandora's box of software management and enforcement to me. Why a 3 QSO limit, just let it rip, its digital and all is good right? Ed N1UR Hi, Just looking to understand the follow
Actually, no sarcasm intended. I guess I am thinking that F/H mode is up to 5 streams so why limit that to 3. Surely, some nice DX will be on and want to utilize that to its full extent. I am very ha
I'm not sure how providing breakdowns changes the outcome. CW is quickly going to die in VHF contests since its either high rate SSB or not. And if not, FT4/8 wins the day. The same thing is happenin
Dan, I am happy to help you. If you are running Low Power, then all is very doable. First of all you need to separate "harmonics" from adjacent broader band interference that is raising the noise flo
"70% of ham traffic is now FT8." I am curious where this datapoint is coming from? Ed N1UR _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lis
I thought that was likely the source. Its a very common misconception that Clublog logs pick up all of the traffic on the air. I tested this theory a month or so ago. I called CQ on SSB for an hour a
Chris, As I mentioned privately to Ria. Clublog states to not draw any conclusions about overall activity vs their uploaded logs. My personal tests have shown that FT8 is very much over-represented b
Actually, the propagation is the same on the West Coast as it is on the East Coast. The issue is the lack of DX participation in Japan, China, India, Australia, Indonesia, etc that rivals Europe. If
I will agree that E-Skip is regional. Sometime you get favored, sometimes you don't. However the 15M prop on IARU was not E-Skip that I could tell. You can't measure prop by "whose on?". If there is
I no longer do this at my current station but used to have an 80M delta loop (single) and did exactly what Tony suggests. I used open wire - 450 Ohm line as the stub and I just had a shorting clip to
Dave - is this actually REALLY quickly synchronized separate transmissions to 3 different stations? Or are there 3 simultaneous transmissions occurring at exactly the same time? If its the former, it
Sounds to me like multiple streams is the nature of the beast in digi contesting. Those interested in it should embrace it. Ed N1UR You dont need multiple rigs...or multiple copies of the software to
Am I the only one that is thinking "wow what a mess this is going to be" after reading this post? Sounds accurate. Sounds completely caotic. I thought the mess on ARRL DX SSB on 40M was a mess. Thats