All three of these ARRL sections are MUCH larger than the cities associated with their names. LAX and SF sections both include a lot of area outside those cities -- SF extends all the way up the coas
Roughly five years ago, W6XU, who runs an audio accessories company, turned our club on to the excellent Yamaha CM500 headset. At the time, it was selling for about $45, and he did a group purchase a
Not necessarily. A technique i've used is to flip between two VFOs at opposite ends of the contest section of the band. I make a Q on one VFO, then flip to the other, then back to the first. Others d
Low power from W1 is like 3kW from W6. So try comparing your scores to ours on the left coast. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesti
http://k9yc.com/BandpassFilterSurvey.pdf This ran in NCJ a couple of years ago. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://l
Jeff, AC0C, has done us all a great service by upgrading his radio and documenting the very significant improvement in occupied TX bandwidth. While his measurement setup is not ideal, it's good enoug
Yes. I'm running a pair of K3/P3/SVGA/KAT500 with Titan 425 amps during contests, and one of the K3/P3/SVGA with a KPA500 during the week. SO2R is the YCCC SO2R box. All the 12V gear in my shack runs
How in the world do you come up with that? It's simply a multi-multi contest station, like hundreds of others around the world, but with the operators NOT in the same room. No different from K3LR, W3
The Yamaha CM500 fits that bill quite well. Very comfortable, even after a LONG contest weekend, sounds great on both TX and RX. About $60. 73, Jim K9YC _____________________________________________
http://www.modmic.com/collections/frontpage Looks nice, guys. One caution when you get around to using it. The data sheet says it's unidirectional, meaning that it's a cardioid, and it seems to be an
I'm using the excellent YCCC SO2R box. It includes WinKey emulation. It switches the keyer, mic, computer message playback, PTT, and headphones between radios on the basis of OTRSP or MKR2 commands v
You've got to be kidding! I have zero interest in posting my scores, or in watching the scores of others. If others do, they are certainly welcome to do so. I also don't participate in Russian contes
Thanks to neighbor N6TA, I've been able to measure the occupied bandwidth of the Yaesu FTDX5000 before and after implementation of Yaesu's September 2014 firmware upgrade. The results of the upgrade
That is NOT what he said. Here's what he said, and why I and others reacted so strongly. = = = = = = = = = ".I feel very strongly that if you USE the technology to have packet, or skimmer assistance,
Obviously, interesting to one operator is boring to others. BUT -- I find it VERY useful to know who is hearing what on various bands, and especially around my frequency. Example -- tonight, I was ru
Having just endured another weekend of truly awful audio with WPX SSB, I couldn't even get my ear/brain to decode many of them. I heard at least 50 stations with audio so badly distorted, muffled, or
As a retired audio pro, I strongly disagree with both statements, Randy. What's wrong is our USE of those cards -- we fail to understand how to set levels (gains), we fail to LISTEN to what we are pu
Obviously you want to ask another contester. :) Bill always has great competitive audio. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com
If I can't get at least a partial call, I try to wait them out, hoping that at least one of them will be smart enough to dump his call in again. :) JAs, bless them, are so well behaved that it never
When I hear someone splattering or clicking, I'll tell them so. If they fix it, I'll work them. When someone's audio is so bad I can't copy them, I tell them so when I'm running, and pass them by whe