<<<I am not surprise you have a lot of YBs in your log. The path between you both should be easier. I have received private e-mail from several people confirming condx were tricky and other stations
<<<Yes I agree with you that condx can vary greatly with only hundred of miles, especially when condx are tricky. That's why I needed several opinions because it only has a statistical value. I was n
I have two (temporary) conclusions from this : - On the morning perhaps the path is not fully SP or LP and usually NA stations are bearing to JA, not me, making things harder to understand. - Around
The way he spells, uses plurals, or uses the incorrect spelling of words that sounds the same(homophones) is enough for me. I can't get past that stupidity. :-) ______________________________________
Also keep in mind what they told me. I was told, if comments are identical copies of multiple others, they sometimes count it as one comment. _______________________________________________ CQ-Contes
He was a character. I very distinctly remember dealing with him from Ameritron when it was in Ohio. No matter what advice I gave, he did what he wanted. Despite warnings, because he could get big me
For contests I care less. It obviously is a combination of operator and station, and the fact there is Internet between the two doesn't matter. For DXCC and other things, I think the rules are messe
Several times over the past 30 years Hams have been hurt, or killed, poking around inside tube-type amps with power on. QST, with total disregard for common sense, even published an article suggestin
Hi Bob, General tech info for contestors, I just hope it doesn't destroy the remote station and potential cheating complaining that is so interesting and exciting. :-) Years ago, when we did broadcas
A single op unassisted wants to use a remote receiver to assist his operating, by learning what is on his frequency. I can't imagine that is OK, for several reasons. First, the operator would see cal
I think this highlights the real problem that no one wants to mention: Every field day I can recall, other than one club back when I was a teenager, breaks rules. For example, a radio club in a town
Thank goodness, a non-volatile post. :-) I have a distribution system in my rooms. I use the speaker outputs of radios into a backwards connected 1-2 watt transistor output transformer, like one of t
Multiple loads requires a system that distributes audio, like a typical 70-volt line output system used for multiple speakers. If he wants multiple load channels from a single source, it has to be a
Supposedly, Herb did not actually operate. By definition, I can have an OPERATOR sit in my room and not be an actual OPERATOR . The only function of a control operator is to prevent or assume respon
There probably is the potential to drive 20 headsets with a single car stereo IC chip power amplifier. If you use a fairly high power (compared to the power headsets need) audio source with low sour
It varies million of times a second. :-) A horizontally polarized dipole, or Yagi, is only perfectly horizontal straight off the broadside of the element. I made that mistake installing a 160 dipole
A traditional bandpass filter does nothing for same-band overload or interference, because by definition it passes the entire band. The exception would be crystal or other very high Q narrow bandwid
Nearly all modern radios have excellent harmonic suppression, while external power amplifiers do not. If we have a second harmonic issue, a critically located stub or stubs, or a trap, is far more e
40 milliwatts or so is a correct worse case for any amp, in or reasonably out-of-tune, unless someone homebrewed something terrible. Very few radios are damaged by 200 milliwatts, or 23 dBm. The dam
Fundamental power. That's no surprise if the antennas are real close in terms of wavelength. If you look at 160 meters, two dipoles 1/4 wave apart can have well over 20% of applied power into the RX