Anyone wanting to play with an active receiver and proximate transmitter would be VERY well served by picking up VJN's book as the FIRST step. Even if it's not a perfect match with this scenario, th
I have about 10 Lutron dimmers in my house including a wireless Caseta-series Lutron that runs the shack lighting (incandescent) without any QRN. 73/jeff/ac0c alpha-charlie-zero-charlie www.ac0c.com
I need to retire my ancient office chair and get something that is more supportive of long BIC durations. I have tried a number of economical big box and office supply alternatives and those tend to
Simple. Assisted is using any source of a callsign other than from your head (CW/SSB) - or from your single signal decoder (CW/RTTY) on the operating QRG of the moment. 28 words (a few added to enh
I don't know about call history and SCP. Those provide a list, not a single call. And I believe that those are universally accepted. The issue seems to be for guys who want to use the cluster in co
Guys who favor assisted operation often take this position. I operate most contests unassisted and like to think (???) that the guys I'm competing against are also under the same constraints of havin
The 2BSIQ thing is more about improving rate by running 2 bands at once - the benefit is easier to realize in RTTY than on other bands. Contrast that to what I see as the value of "assisted" meaning
Once spotted, a mult is going to be likely worked by the bigger (meaning stronger signal) stations than the weaker station. Assisted or unassisted - that holds. The fact that the big station is assis
Check out antenna master Cebik (W4RNL, now SK)'s recommendations available here: http://www.n5dux.com/ham/files/pdf/W4RNL%20-%20Top%20Five%20Backyard%20Multi-Band%20Wire%20HF%20Antennas.pdf Cebik was
I am guessing he's asking about the "D" vs. "MP" models - and that the "DZ" is a typo. 73/jeff/ac0c alpha-charlie-zero-charlie www.ac0c.com Anyone know what the difference is between those two radios
I've tested the Dunestar, AS and 5B4AGN filters before. The AS has the best ajacent band attenuation response of the trio. I use the 5B4AGN here and they are reliable. 73/jeff/ac0c alpha-charlie-ze
Agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm near Kansas City and the plot of the storm on radar showed the surrounded by serious thunderstorms on Friday night. The rain from the storms had passed by Saturday but the
Maybe it was not So2r at all. Maybe it was the STUNNING AMAZING FANTASTIC thunderstorm activity that swamped most of the midwest. Sending the call twice amid that mess was a good way to cut down on
You are right Sean. In the CQ DX CW contest I and a couple of other guys worked 130 countries in a part-time effort. Not that significant other than to say it was run from the midwest (KS), often ca
Tim, I would like to personally encourage all of the top-10 scorers in the RTTY RU to make the move to FT8. Immediately! We here in the midwest need all the help we can get and thinning out the fiel
I read an article in Radcom, QST or QEX lately that talked about using diodes to control spikes on lines. I think it was talking about controlling overshoot. But I can't remember which magazine/issu
Exactly right. The FT8/4 modes need to have contests specifically built around the capabilities and limitations of the mode. Mixing FTx into the RTTY contests falls squarely into a category of things
The fundamental reason for FTx needing it's own contest format is that it's a fixed rate which is set by software. The exchanges are essentially synchronous and slaved to a common clock. So if ops
I have a friend looking for a band data decoder for an Icom rig. He needs a super cheap & simple solution - something like the unified microsystems BCD decoder board - but instead something that work
Now is the time to take another look at the FTx scoring system for contesting. After all, if FT4 is a contesting mode, then why not use an accompanying scoring system that lets the best features of