Once upon at time... I was involved with a large military airframe, where everybody wanted to talk. They were adding 14 military UHF band trabsceivers to the beast. These units were freq hopping. An
Well, actually, I think that contest conditions are very similar to the NPR test. More particularly, the NPR test is a far more accurate representation of what's happening on the band during a contes
Hi Barry -- You raised an interesting question which will likely stimulate many messages. I disagree with your recommendation for the following reasons. I didn't operate the contest, so I didn't hear
Dave -- Thanks for bringing up the topic in such a graceful manner. As you pointed out, if every contest's sponsor sent out frequent promotional emails, the volume of traffic would be burdensome. My
TenTec is promoting the Orion as the best radio for contesting to date, based on the receiver measured performance parameters, and the flexibility in the "full dual receive" capabilities with the tra
The first time I did this was with W6OAT on Clipperton. I was the transmitting operator, and Rusty would mumble calls to me verbally to feed into the queue. We were surprised at how often we would pi
I would pay significantly more (but rather less than 2x) for a variant of the Orion with two identical receivers of "main" quality, where the only receiver that gets muted during transmit is the one
And, when the high-end SO2R operator buys two radios, the manufacturer probably earns a better return on the sales of 2 units vs the return on selling a "SO2R in a box" single unit. This is not a sla
QST 1998 May, page 44 ff. Does anyone remember the magazine, issue or year of the construction article on the bandpass filters? Thanks, Mike W9RE -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finlan
For those who are planning to comment in the FCC inquiry about BPL, you may find it useful to read the five articles in the 2003 May issue of "IEEE Communications Magazine". -- Eric K3NA
Get the W2VJN book on interstation interference. It will help you a lot in planning the protection for your receivers. George's book should be available via the INRAD website. I'm in the process of c
For those interested, I now have PDFs available of five articles that appeared in the 2003 May issue of "IEEE Communications Magazine" on broadband over power line. The articles are: 1. Guest editori
Folks -- 73, -- Eric K3NA This months issue (The 2003 Annual Reference Guide) of Compliance Engineering (http://www.ce-mag.com) has two excellent articles dealing with Power Line Communications. The
My experience with in-ear headphones is: on in the room (fan or blower noise from amplifier or computer, other operators in a multi-op), your brain is going to have to work harder to overcome both ro
I am using the W5XD Multi-keyer+ SO2R box (and WriteLog). I can't compare them to the other commercial boxes on the market since I've never tried them. The W5XD box worked perfectly right away and wa
I mentioned this earlier today to Bob W3YY, who has tipped off George Moore, the head of Engineering & Operations at VOA. Sounds like we have more than enough bases covered. -- Eric K3NA did some add
If we could be taught two words per day from now until WRTC, then we would have a working vocabulary of about 2,000 words. In comparison, the VOA's "Simple English" vocabulary is about 2500 words. I'
I wonder if researchers could get access to the LOTW, in addition to contest weekend logs, to get a full picture of what communications were possible during a particular time. Unfortunately, it's onl
I found "PWR?" worked as well as "PREC?" in getting fills during the SS CW contest. -- Eric K3NA [...snip...] 3. What on earth can we do to make "PREC?" easier for more people to understand? If I sho
Hi Tom -- -- Eric K3NA I'm "doing" a keyer for contesting and general ragchewing, and I have a contest related question. The keyer has a LCD display that displays what is being sent either through th