Dave, Assuming your 2way power divider is 50 ohms in and out, the two phasing line lengths just need to be the SAME length. If you cut them from the same roll of 50 ohm cable, you can easily get away
If they were legitimate qso's, i.e. call and grid were exchanged and acknowledged both ways, I do not see this violates any rule so I wouldn't care if there were a thousand such qso's. I've said thi
Tim, Pat, Dave, W3KM's km-rover software works neat. Check the PackRats webpage for more info. bill, K1DY fn54jq Maine To: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com> _____________________________________________
Hoo boy, this certainly has been interesting! As I remember, Dave, K1WHS, only opened this subject by asking whether or not the League considered the mode to be *legal* for contests based on previous
Hi everyone, I will send this message out one more time. I know some of us don't even start *thinking* about the contest 'til the week before. We are very interested in tropo or scatter skeds on the
DEMI is definitely still in business. I noticed that on the website too. I will inform Steve at DEMI and it'll get fixed.. bill, K1DY _________________________________________________________________
Hey gang! The big gun serious contesters will do whatever they need to to get a higher score. If it means operate primarily on CW because CW qso's are worth more points that's what will happen. So th
Hi Bill, I'll say this again, I guess.. What good does it do to give EVERYBODY in the contest a boost in QSO totals?? ("Thanks for the SSB qso, OM, now please go to CW") Besides it wouldn't be every
Hi Warren, Ooops, what I *meant* was the "non-cw only" portion of the band. As far as being more VHF operators... I guess i meant weak-signal types that would be interested in contests.. I always tho
Hi Garie, Well that's a good point about the rules. BUT some responses to this thread (W3IY I believe) were talking about making CW a separate band or like field day where you get to operate both for
I have always found W2SZ's rovers to be willing to work other stations. bill, K1DY _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print y
At the K1WHS multiop contest station in Maine, we are using the K2 as an IF rig with excellent results. Right now we are double converting up to 903 MHz and i think Dave has plans to use his second K
Gee Ken, I've been making skeds before the contest for some forty years now, and never entered a contact in the log that I didn't think was legitimate. What about during the contest, moving a statio
Hi all, Well, this is TRUE! But the same holds for moving stations up the band - a common practice on VHF that NEVER occurs on HF - , and the signals often get WEAKER as one QSY's up, and often the
I stand corrected. I have never operated HF DX contests and incorrectly assumed that propagation would prohibit doing ...say, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, whereas we often go 6M, 2M, 222,432,1296,2304 ad inf
Yay!! Look for K1WHS in FN43mj 50MHz-24gHz. 73 and good luck everyone! bill, K1DY _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http:
Hi Terry, Long time, how are tyou doing?? I agree with you that the whole contest scoring thing needs to be reviewed. As you say, VHF contesting does not seem to be an ARRL priority! Not much (contes
Hi Clarke and all, Yikes, this subject is sure bringing folks out of the woodwork. That is good i think. Here are some things to mull over. 1. Is the reason there is a decline in contest activity bec
Hi Jim! Oooh I said I'd be quiet, but... urk... But... a single op station is NOT IN competition with the multiop! Plus a REAL LOT of stations work the multiop for a new grid or state!! Plus you mig
Here's an interesting point of data: Jan 1962 VHF SS Summary from June 1962 QST "1506 Valid logs, a drop of 5% from 1961" Two entry categories: Single Op, Multiop. Hmmmm.... bill, K1DY ______________