I'll call CQ up the band a ways, say 432.135 but be tuning all over. bill, K1DY OK everybody, K1DY will be on tonight for the Sprint from FN54JQ, central Maine, SSB and CW. I'll be on at the beginnin
Well, I thought conditions were quite poor, though activity seemed OK. Worked 10 Q's in 7 grids. best DX K3TUF in FN10 at 757km and WB2RVX in FM29 at 720km, both very weak and a LOT of work on CW.. B
Has to do with NFL football schedule I believe The date for the January VHF contest is shown as "will generally be the third or fourth weekend in January" http://www.arrl.org/january-vhf January VHF<
I echo Ron's comments (re-echo I guess), Though I do admit the ON4KST chat made it a LOT easier to get stations to point their antennas this way!! Weird that I was logging on paper and using computer
Hi all, Create claims the gain of the 50-1300MHz LPDA is 10-12dBi (~8-10dBd). I don't see how those numbers could possibly be accurate given the element taper and the boom length etc.. Reports of per
Good idea! Sort of hard to believe that hasn't been done before.. anyone have any data?? bill, K1DY Maybe someone can bring one to a Central States conference or another conference where antenna test
Mark, Good point if you have to set up each antenna on a separate mast at each location. On my 10 band rover, 2M-3456 were already roof mounted and ready to go, 6M was a separate mast that took about
Hi all, Very interesting last night! Got on at the start and my first contact was with N2NT in FN20 on SSB S-9!! we both said "wow"! Conditions were definitely up with pretty severe QSB. Worked 5 FN2
Zack, The "smartphone event" is cancelled NOT the actual contest.. yeah I was confused by that too!! I'll be on from FN54.. hope we work!! bill, k1DY ________________________________ From: VHFcontest
Yikes.. OK, well might as well make this official.. K1DY will be on tomorrow night from FN54JQ in Maine. CQ'ing, monitoring, monitoring chat and cahtting on ON4KST, etc etc.. SSB and the only "digita
Hi All, I thought activity was pretty good last night. I managed to hang in there until about 9:15. Conditions were fair with stations in and out with QSB. Managed 15 QSO's in 11 grids. Best DX WB2RV
Hi all, I know this is a long shot since I'm way up here and most of you are way down there, BUT, I have a perfectly good K1FO FO-25 for sale 25 elements on a 17 foot boom. It's refurbed and tested a
Hi all, What a difference a day makes I guess.. I wasn't around the night the "band was open" sorry to say BUT the band was really poor last night. I was on at the beginning and ran 'til about 9. Wor
Hi gang, Well plans change. A few years back I was thinking I was going to build up a killer 10 band rover station, but lately after I've started putting the home station back on the air, I think I'm
Hi everyone, I thought I had the gear sold, but that seems to have fallen through. So here we go again... Here's my original posting: Well plans change. A few years back I was thinking I was going to
2304 is SOLD 3456 still available.. bill _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/vhfcontes
Hi all, I'm still cleaning up in the shack. Here's some odds and ends for sale: 150 watt 903MHZ linear power amp. This was put together by N2CEI and belonged to W0RSJ. It's based on the Motorola pall
all SOLD except the beam (surprise surprise).. bill Hi all, I'm still cleaning up in the shack. Here's some odds and ends for sale: 150 watt 903MHZ linear power amp. This was put together by N2CEI an
all the past stuff is sold, including the beam, but I keep finding more.. Tohtsu CX-600M coax relay.. in *like new* condition (that means it was in the rover station switching a few watts only a coup
CX531N coax relay 12v, common port type N. N.O. and N.C. ports hard wired for RG58 or RG142 size coax.. will handle a couple 100 watts up to 432. heck,.. here's a data sheet: https://www.thedxshop.co