Last night, my Dad, AD9P, was on 75 SSB checking out his new Pro3 on phone, and got into a ragchew with a, umm, pigfarmer ( yeah, not a "real" pigfarmer..), and when he was about to sign with him, he
But I am encouraging my 2nd harmonic to get into ham radio, and become a contester too... I thought we wanted new young blood in the hobby...*G* I know.. outta context, and all that... but I couldn't
The 2nd harmonic thing is very real. In years past I have personally heard some of the big guys on 160M as loud as S8 on the meter exactly double their TX frequency on 160M. You go down to 160M and f
During CQ WW CW, I was operating (well, just pushing F1 and scanning the band) 10M at K1TTT after catching up on sleep from being on 80M most of the night. I heard K1KI running Europe on 10M. I could
There were at least a few key clicks, although not as many as in the past... Still a couple ummm, for a lack of a better description, "spark" operations going on. Hope they found the problem, if they
It's time we took the fight back. What basis do 25 amateurs have for claiming ownership of 3655 or any other frequency for that matter. Amateur radio is not and should not be chanelised (other than b
No, I am laughing. Who's site is this? It obviously is an anti-contester, with a very small mind, judging by the little man pissing. I know at LEAST two of the call on the "wall of shame". They are l
"Back in USSR" it was pretty common to hear second harmonic on 80. Many hams were building radios with tube finals trying to get 120W out of 50W tube resulting in harmonics etc... You could even mis-
I also recognize and know many of the calls. However I was on 160 and on 1827.5 a number of times.. but MY call isn't there... should I feel slighted? That is only one piece of the multi faceted situ
another thought, this problem never was noticed in all the years that 3.700 and below was designated sole use for cw. Now, I'm pretty sure that there are enough OOs and FCC monitoring stations to pic
i live down the street fron the local OO and it is surprising how loud my second harmonic can be and still be legal, especially when your first harmonic is REALLY loud makes one really believe in the
Let's apply a little use of Occam's Razor to this. If all of the stations listed on the 3655 group's web site had 2nd harmonic problems while on 160, wouldn't there be a little bit more heard about i
Yes, it is amazong, when one actually runs the numbers. It the specs of a radio are to suppress the 2nd harmonic by 48 db, read the manual or specs of the tx to find your own, but by 48 db, but the o
I think part of the problem is some folks use what must be considered SWL type gear on the ham bands. While this may be fine on a day-to-day basis, it certainly does not stand up to congested band (i
the prior two post are very good reminders that "those pig farmers" live to complain about anyone outside of their circle and rarely do they consider anything they (the pig farmers) do as fault or co
A fine point regarding Part 97: The 2nd harmonic spec. may well be 48db down (at 1.8 MHz or whatever), but that is the limit on spurious radiation whether or not anyone is interfered with. Harmful in
Well there you have it... so that means I can get my competitor one block to the south of my QTH, running 1 KW on 40m while I'm chasing Q's on 20m, sited for harmful interference. I can't wait to mak
Ron, If someone in the midwest will put their SDR with Skimmer on 3650, covering plus/minus about 48 Khz from that frequency during the CQ 160M Contest, everyone will be able to see the results - a n