Join us for the Kansas City DX Club's big CW Pileup Competition again this year at Dayton. The 35th consecutive running of this Dayton tradition will take place on Saturday evening from 8:00 p.m. unt
In class A, the 3rd harmonic content is somewhat less, and the higher order products are way down. Without that feature enabled (the usual AB), the 3rd is stronger and all of the usual higher order p
The amount of work a guy may want to put into checking out the setup for isolation is in direct proportion to the cost of getting a potentially expensive RX repaired. My view is that until you have T
Is there a description of this Octopus implementation on the web or in QST/73/HR somewhere? That was a bit before I got into radio and I'm curious to understand what you slightly more seasoned fine i
I have been using SH5 to do log analysis. But for field day with mostly domestic locations, the results are not good. Is there a program available that would show what the beam heading distribution i
Yan, Thanks for the suggestions. But I found that ViewProp from ZL2HAM can do it based on physical QTH locations (it does a QRZ.COM lookup for each entry). It's a very slick application. 73/jeff/ac0c
Don't take it that personally. If getting the max S&P rate is the objective, waiting a few more seconds would probably be worth it. After all, what's the time required to move to the next frequency,
That's a great way to start. Especially as the solar cycle fades and 10/15 are not open. Then in the day, you run 40/20, and in the night you run 80/40. 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-c
I think you have it right. What's allowed and legal does nothing to diminish my enjoyment here and it seems to me that's the best outlook. You can't brunt the march of technology's existence, but you
Or code reader. 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-charlie Paper Log? I got pretty good in the old days sending with the paddles with the right hand and logging with the pencil with the lef
Welcome to RTTY contesting Tim! 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-charlie HI Folks: Had a great time in the WPX RTTY this weekend, I ran single operator, low power, unassisted, tribander a
That event was a real nice thing to have done in his memory. While I did not know the gentlemen personally, I'm pretty sure he was looking down on it with a big smile. Good job guys (and gal). 73/jef
Elimination of this category is also putting a bookend on tradition and history. And we already have way too much tossing out of ham radio traditions. 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-cha
SO outperforms SOA? There is no way these scores are comparing apples to apples. Why? All things being equal, spotting assistance must result in higher scores simply because the risk of missing a mul
I have a skimmer system here. When I'm running unassisted, the N1MM telnet window is closed and I receive no spots. I really cannot see how a telnet feed off a cluster, etc would be any different. Th
http://www.kkn.net/dayton2008/when_giants_walked_the_bands.pdf 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-charlie I don't seem to be able to find it on the WWROF site, but there was a webniar of "W
All of these topics are covered in W2VJN's excellent book "Managing Interstation Interference." Anyone wanting to get into So2r (or M/2-M/M) should start here. The gentlemen may have this book alread
The only amplifier that does not generate harmonic content is the theoretically ideal types - nothing in the real world is perfect meaning they all generate their own levels of harmonic content. Now
I would guess most guys don't go to this much effort. New stuff and optimized placement? Wow, that would be cool! I built the stubs up on an as-needed basis with whatever I had laying about; there's