Start an official observer program with trained people using good equipment properly to monitor, and deduct points for wide signals when more than three agree the signal is too wide. ________________
This has my curiousity.....does anyone know what stations doing this really do? When I have a splitter, power divides from the exciter. Each amp has fixed gain. If I have one 10 dB gain amp and a 100
It looks like this is a popular thing to do. I was considering it myself using the DX Engineering stacking system because one system could be adapted to do power ratio division between antennas prett
They would automatically crank back and up with an exciter into a splitter. Do a two-way, and each amp probably gets -3.5 dB drive. Do a 4 way, and it is -6.5 or so per amp. Do a 3-way, and it is ei
Bob, It's better to either match things closely and tune a marginal amp properly, or seriously over-couple the amp to reduce efficiency and use a much larger amp than required (then you have one pow
The real problems we now have, that no one seems to want to worry about, are skimmers and remote receivers. All my work with receiving antennas and finding a good low noise location, and all I really
There is NO rule you have to give the other fellow's callsign. That went away years ago, I think around the 1980's. The rule is you have to give YOUR OWN callsign either at least once every ten minu
I also do not remember the date of my first license, >> I remember the first date that gave me full privileges, but not my first license date. _______________________________________________ CQ-Conte
I like low bands because of my start. I had to drag radios and TV sets home from the dump and gut them for parts to build Ham gear, including receivers. My first transmitter was on aluminum foil lin
It isn't just the antenna. It is every radio aspect of the location, antenna, and equipment that determines the S/N ratio. Then, on top of that, there is propagation. Even if antennas were identical
Well I think I can guess at this. :-) Read the 269 Manual, unless someone removed it or modified it, it should be there. Someone did rewrite the manuals and mess things up, but they should be back ag
Years ago on 20 meters before packet and stuff, when I wanted to find out if the band was open, I'd pop my microphone PTT button and listen for the return click. ____________________________________
I use this system: http://www.w8ji.com/images/New%20Contest%20Room/Contest%20station%20CQWW2007/receiver-switch-matrix.jpg Except now I have PC boards laid out....the PC boards I have are cascadable,
Carol, Don't use a 4:1 balun. The impedance presented by the feedline to the balun is not likely to be close to 200 ohms j0, and a 1:1 current balun always does a better job with mismatched loads fo
Help!!! Is there any way to stop the stream of spots from skimmers? They just ruin watching the packet cluster for DX! All I see is a constat steady stream of spots from every skimmer in the world! D
Here is the answer I was looking for, thanks to Jim. I searched on line for the answer, and could not find it anywhere: _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Cont
I only use VE7CC as a rule, so it worked fine. It is a little strange that Internet searches, and search through the VE7CC pages, did not turn up such a simple answer!! It's back the way I like it n
Probably the MP. There is an unmodified 1000MP south of me, and I can't operate within 2 kHz of him even when he is barefoot. Some people are fine 300 Hz or 400 Hz away. Some people, even though bar
With the Winkeyer, you can use the PTT lines. MFJ makes a CW keyer, the 495, than can be manually keyed and has programmable keying delay. DX Engineering has a sequencer that passes through PTT lines
Thanks Jeff. We will all do that from now on. :-) _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-con