This brings up again the age old question: do I want to DX or contest? A high gain, narrow band antenna does not send a CQ in a wide azimuth. But today's rules allow you to call someone on your cellp
I currently have no idea what my score it. Who says VHF contests are boring? The fun begins long before the contest and lasts well after. My station was last configured for December's 10M contest. Ev
Hi Chuck, I use a Comet CF-530 splitter's 1.3 -90 MHz port in front of my 6M transceiver with a small 50 ohm dummy load on the unused higher freq output. On 2M I was using a nice OCI bandpass filter.
GL, I heard the CAC is now kaput. Chet, N8RA --Original Message-- From: VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting-bounces+chetsubaccount=snet.net@contesting.com> On Behalf Of Jay RM Sent: Monday, January 18, 2021
N8RA ARRL Jan VHF FN31 CT SOABA low mixed Band QSOs Grids 50 FT8 98 18 50 USB 48 11 144 FT8 69 14 144 USB 22 8 222 USB 1 1 420 USB 1 1 Total 239 53 Score: 12,773 Yankee Clipper Contest Club Time on:
I must be doing something wrong. FT8 is supposed to be dull, the computer does all the work and shovels contacts into your log while you eat donuts with coffee. When I am using FT8, I have both 6M an
Yes, and my goal for the contest is to make as many Qs in as many grids, on as many bands as I can. For me most satisfaction is in the journey- do something myself to my station or operating to make
Yes Keith you will- that IS part of my contest strategy, until it no longer works best for my score. Sorry we missed the Q, I think I was trying to repair my 6M amplifier at the time. 73, Chet, N8RA
Thank you for your reasoned thoughts James. The ARRL VHF contest rules are already close to anything-goes allowing simultaneous CQing on different bands, self-spotting, APRS, arranging QSOs by teleph
Yes, aware of the SOIR and 2SQ or whatever that's called. My suggestion was to allow having 2 signals on a band at the same time, but using different modes. If we want to get wrapped up in more rule
To relive the old taste of 6M contesting, have you considered the December 10M contest? Still only CW and SSB - has both or either categories, a few random hours of E's here and there, plus tropo, sc
Well Mark, you mention using a band scope- if that is an SDR and feeding an SDR app on your computer then you have a spectrum display and a 2nd receiver to listen to the calling freq in between dig s
Gerry, I am with Alex: chatting on the internet or cellphone to create a contact removes the fun and satisfaction from your own learning, building, and operating. 73, Chet, N8RA --Original Message--
Band Mode QSOs Grd 144 FT8 25 16 222 FT8 1 1 Total Both 26 17 Score: 459 Low power A rambling report of the ARRL June VHF contest. First, the excuses: I was not ready. With the lifting of covid restr
Band Mode QSOs Grd 50 FT4 4 2 50 FT8 129 56 50 USB 95 48 144 FT8 42 22 144 USB 7 2 Total Both 277 130 Score: 42,380 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club The June ARRL VHF contest had been a bust here. I
My Elecraft K3 is going thru a midlife crisis. It has become unsure about when or how much power to produce when asked. I spent Saturday afternoon trying to teach it with limited success. Noticing th
If you please, what is our callsign and grid? 73, Chet, N8RA --Original Message-- From: VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting-bounces+chetsubaccount=snet.net@contesting.com> On Behalf Of Howard Reynolds Sent:
Hello fellow contesters, Some recent threads here and elsewhere about FT8 have prompted me to express my alternate view. I agree with the summary statement that FT8 has presented VHF contesters a com