Not everyone has the time, money, room, or XYL support to build his own station. I know that I certainly didn't have enough of those to build a decent setup when I was still working. If he's an exp
Not necessarily true. He already stated that his concern is the limited power handling capability of the portable antenna he is planning to use. The same could be said if he was using a small antenn
I'm not a fan of FT8 for various reasons (mostly its constricted interface), but you realize that FT8 has encouraged more activity on the bands than just about anything else, right? Many CWers moved
You know that your rig is a full fledged computer running all sorts of DSP signal enhancement software for all modes, including CW and SSB, right? The incoming (and outgoing) signals are digitally s
Everything I wrote was accurate. It's not a false equivalence. The gripes you (and I) have with FT8 are due to the WSJT-X interface that takes the operator out of the picture ... not the digital pro
Every modern rig has computer processing in it that digitizes both the incoming and outgoing signals for filtering, waveshaping, AGC, and other functions. That doesn't have anything to do with WSJT-
I dabbled in the contest both nights (20m and 40m) and was amazed at how many relatively strong DX stations made call after call without any answers. Several of the big gun stateside stations seemed
Not yours, although you may have to fight it. The U.S. requires that electronic goods be sufficiently immune to properly transmitted RF. Several years back Eaton ended up redesigning some of their
I wholeheartedly agree. There is a reason that video games are so very popular ... they use great visuals and involve tiered strategies of one sort or another. I have argued for years that ham radi
I'm having a difficult time understanding why it is necessary at all to "combat" contest burnout. After all, this is merely a hobby and when it becomes too tedious or uninteresting we can just let i
FTx is a remarkable weak signal mode for making casual contacts, which is why it is so popular. It's a really poor implementation of weak signal techniques for contesting, though, which is why it is
The most likely reason for a difference in readability is a difference in local signal strength, but it is also possible that one end of the potential contact has greater QRM ... either from propagat
VP6WR was only the second DX station I had ever worked after getting my license in 1967 as WA0TAC. Nov 30, 1967 15m SSB. I wonder if it was you I actually worked. 73, Dave AB7E I was saddened to
I don't claim to be an expert, but I own an HF-CIA, a nanoVNA, and a FA-VA5. I have used all three extensively over the years. The HF-CIA woks fine but is large and a bit clunky. The nanoVNA is am
"Processed" covers a pretty wide range of possibilities, but if you knew what kind of processing (logarithmic, etc) you wanted you could create the waveforms yourself graphically. There are several
Instead of a magnetic system, I bought one of these release mechanisms for my DJI Mavic Air 2 and it works very well. A servo motor pulls a pin that releases a ring with whatever you want to drop at
Yet people share compiled "Call History" files that are unique to a particular contest and provide all of the exchange information for that contest. They aren't 100% reliable since people change nam
A call history file comprised of the combination of the prior logs of many other contesters (which is readily available and used by many) is exactly that, though. Lots of folks excuse it by saying t
Hi, Mike. Here is something I wrote up several years ago. It works, but it thrashes the hell of out the K3 relays and I've never used it in a contest. There may be a smarter way to do it. http://ww
From the DXlog website: "Contrary to e.g., N1MM Logger+, DXLog's default setting is to use a single window, a "desktop". There are many benefits with this, for instance the fact that you can rapidly