I will be writing up the 2020 January VHF contest for QST and the ARRL Web site. I would like to get any pictures you take of contest activities, antennas covered in snow, rovers in sunny climes, mid
Alan - Sorry I cant help with your FT991 issues, but if you dont mind me hijacking the thread a bit, I would like to say a few things about weak signal contesting using FM. Below the capture threshol
The expanded results writeup for the ARRL January 2020 VHF contest Is available here: < https://contests.arrl.org/ContestResults/2020/Jan-VHF-2020-FinalFullResults.pdf Thanks to all who operated the
Keith - While I understand and respect your position, I am concerned about the proliferation of categories in the VHF/UHF Contests without some well thought out rationale. The introduction of the Lim
OK, my table got garbled. Sorry. Here is another attempt. Monospaced font: Power Band Station Operators (Pick 1) (Pick 1 or 2) (Pick 1) (Pick 1) High Low (6M to 432) Fixed Single Low High (902 to lig
The deadline for submitting logs in the 2021 running of the ARRL January VHF Contest has passed with 1179 logs received. There may be a few more as paper logs are received and entered electronically.
Chet - Thanks for your comments. There was a lot of discussion on here and other platforms before, during, and after the rules for assistance were changed. I wont rehash that discussion here, only to
Marshall - You wrote "However, the total scores of everyone in the contest has gone DOWN due to the fact that FT8 takes so long to make a contact. I suppose you used everyone for effect, but the fact
I must apologize to Marshall and the list for the e-mail I sent. I was still working on it and it got sent inadvertently. I usually attach my call to the end of the message and I had not reached that
I proposed checking for SSB/CW on the hour and half hour. What do others think about that??? If you find a bit of SSB/CW, then you will surely make more contacts and more mults as long as the Es last
Keith - I am sorry I didnt make my point clearer. Let me clarify and absolve you from ever having made that claim and explain where it came from. In an earlier post, Marshall had lamented that a good
Kim - Your point on conditions is pertinent. I think the discussion of the impact that conditions have on contest scores is implicitly included in the discussion of digital modes. FT8 and FT4 in part
I am not sure what point you are trying to make, but there are no new categories. And, again, I am not sure how you are trying to categorize the current contestants, but casual is probably a better c
Keith - I agree with you, with the possible exception of when a mult is available on the digital modes that is not available on an analog mode. This is not an unusual situation these days as lots of
Pete - W7QQ and I looked at about a half dozen of the Transverters Store (Ukrainian) 222MHz transverters a few years back. One thing that we noticed was that the drift we measured, while similar to t
Pete - I am not sure my replies are getting through to the reflector, but Keith is right, the biggest problem will be the drift when the transverter is transmitting. Here is an article which quantifi
Pete - I am curious, recently the Transverters Store has gone to a 1ppM TCXO for the LO, which should be better than the old DIP oscillator. Did Steve check the old DIP one or the new TCXO one? - Duf
Chet - I hope you took the survey about the use of FT8 and expressed those sentiments in it. To the more general audience and contest participants this weekend, I urge participants that use WSJT-X to
I dont know the answer to your question, but the VHF rules have kind of grown in a patchwork fashion over the years, so there are a some rules that dont make sense now when taken in the whole. I dont