Hi Stu, As I wrote in TXNoise.pdf, "FCC Rules 97.307 (a) No amateur station transmission shall occupy more bandwidth than necessary for the information rate and emission type being transmitted, in ac
Good operators RUN, and they Search and Pounce. When a dirty station wipes out 10 kHz of a band (as KE1B regularly does with a 7600 and legal limit amp 8 miles from me), he deprives me of the station
The LAST thing we would want to do is involve the FCC in this. Far better to police this ourselves. As to checking your own rig -- someone who knows what they are doing can use a P3 connected to the
On 10/29/2014 1:09 PM, Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA wrote: A group of us contesters here in the "MAR" section feel the time has come to announce the end of the MAR section in not only ARRL contests but
Thanks for the correction, Ken. I'm 800 miles from my shack, but I don't recall working you with a DC exchange. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ
Very nice presentation of the data, Tim. Thanks. FYI -- W6RRR, freshman at UC Santa Cruz, has been licensed for about a year (Extra Class). San is a protege of Bob, K6XX, and has operated from his st
Study my survey of the measured performance of the major brands of bandpass filters. It ran in NCJ a year or two ago. http://k9yc.com/BandpassFilterSurvey.pdf Since my measurements were published, 5B
I just studied the data myself. The W3NQN-designed 15M filters sold by Array Solutions are about 12dB better than the 15M Dunestar filters, ASSUMING that the Dunestar filter is properly aligned, and/
VHF/UHF is quite different from HF. Perhaps you don't spend much time there. It has long been common (and good) practice for meteor scatter, moonbounce, and other small signal mode contacts to be sch
VHF+ contesting is not anything like HF contesting. I completely agree with Zack. Indeed, I posted something quite similar to his on 11/15/14 at 8:58 am. It got ignored in the brohaha about cheating.
On Fri,11/21/2014 10:00 AM, FritzOAQ wrote: I'm new to N1MM software but it appears to me that one can only communicate with it via USB "COM ports". If there's no way to use the FIF-232C box, then I
Here's my applications note and advice on the topic. Several guys have taken the advice and emailed that they are happy campers. Don't rule out used stuff in these families on EBay. http://k9yc.com/U
Etymotic Research (near Chicago) makes a nice variety of earbuds that have excellent isolation and good sensitivity. I originally bought the ER4S for mixing live music in loud jazz clubs. When I reti
Yes and no. Let's say you're running with no cluster, you're in W6, with the path to EU over the pole and lots of auroral flutter. That's the way it is for at least half of the time on 20M. Under the
On Wed,12/3/2014 9:26 AM, K4XS via CQ-Contest wrote: These little pistols are the life blood of contesting. NR5M, W9RE, myself and other big guns would soon run out of guys to work if it wasn't for t
That would be limited to those with very good stations who are ideally located to work the most populated parts of Russia. Russia is a VERY big country, but most contesters are in the eastern parts.
Agreed. Excellent support there. I've got NL+ on four laptops, all XP Pro, no problems I can't blame on cockpit error. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
On Sun,12/14/2014 7:56 AM, Mike Ritz, W7VO wrote: I noticed the same thing yesterday. I had to listen twice or even three times to a few guys to figure out what they were doing! Trying to copy a 4 di
It's not only a few EUs -- it's also US guys with big egos and the little pistol JAs. Funny -- they call you when you're running with this silly crap. But the big JA stations who are running all send