I hate to be a kurmudgeon, Jim, but if the League has to chose between spending money on Washington lobbyist or printing our scores in QST versus the web, I would rather have them concentrate on what
I don't know Hans, but the last issue of CQ that I picked up at the newstand had the top score results of the CQ 160 contest listed with the usual writeup and soapbox, but I couldn't for the life of
Hmmm, must have been the pages stuck together or ripped out. I could have sworn that they weren't there. I'll have to head back to the newstand and buy a copy after all - :):). 73 Mike, W4EF ("E"gg o
I don't think you guys are being fair to the SSB crowd. I played around a little bit in NAQP phone this weekend. A prime example of the problem occurred when I worked Merri, AB0MV on 160 meters. Now
Or listening/operating on two emergency nets at once - SO2R? What great training for linking between a local VHF net and a national HF net, or two difference HF nets. On September 11th I was listenin
Hi Barry, You might try hanging some 1/4 or 1/8 radials to the RF ground of your shack. I also use my 80 meter dipole on 160 by disconnecting the shield of the coax from ground just outside the shack
This is right in the middle of the "meat" where the bulk of CW sprint QSOs typically take place. I am not familiar with the RTTY bandplan. How come it is so low in the band. I thought RTTY was typica
Does anyone know when the Feb CW Sprint was moved from the 1st weekend in February to the second? My computer logs going back to Feb 1996 show that the contest has been held on the second weekend. I
Marco, I believe this scheme is known as the "Asynchronous Transformer" - asynchronous because it can be inserted at any point along the 75 ohm transmission line. I just did some modeling of this sch
Marco, I modeled the scheme described in the link the Bill provided. When you add the additional 50/75 ohm transformers on the antenna side, the match gets much better (VSWR_ant = VSWR_ shack). I sus
Check with the RF Connection http://www.therfc.com/dinconn.htm He has the special Kenwood DIN plugs that are used for the transverter, external receiver antenna, remote VFO, etc. As has been mentione
Mark, Somebody at work had a whole bunch of little APC UPSs set up in a battery replacement triage a few months ago. Apparently they got them for free because all of the batteries were dead. They jus
As I recall the postcard can take a few weeks. Once you get your first certificate activated (via the postcard), however, all additional certificate requests/renewals can be done online with very qui
How about a less extreme example, Yuri. You comeback to very weak W4 who is calling you on CW. You ask for several repeats and you think it is W4EU, but your are still not sure even after the repeats
Yuri, Have you looked at how you penalty-rate compares with other stations? As hard as it may be to swallow, Yuri, this penalty-rate may be "par for the course" or perhaps even above average, especia
1.2:1. the bandwidth. High Q doesn't necessarily mean lower loss, Dave. I think you may be confusing loaded and unloaded Q. Unloaded Q is the instrinsic quality of the component. You want this to be
Hi Dale, The sprint can be extremely frustrating your first time out, even if you running full legal limit to big antennas. If your QRP it's 20dB more challenging. Your best bet for QRP is probably t
How about a mixed mode Sprint. You can work people twice on each band (once on phone and once on CW). Everything else the same (0000-0400Z, QSY rule, etc). Wouldn't that be a hoot. Mike, W4EF........
The thing I noticed about 40 meters last weekend was that the pileups seemed much more fierce than on 20 and 80. Since everyone was packed so tightly, it seemed that when I found a new station to wor