Just drove 990 miles from Canadian border to arrive home in time for weekend. It appears that 6/2/222/432/and 1296 are still working as they did 2 weeks ago. I may add another microwave band if I c
Will operate from Windmill Hill, SC (home QTH) EM85wb on 6M, 2M, 222, 432, 1296, and 2304. I will probably operate the low side of the calling frequencies except 6M, hi hi. I'm available for a limite
My best DX and most memorable contact last year was working K1WHS on 1296.1 with 10 watts. And I make plenty of contacts. I just uploaded over 45,000 HF contest Qs (10 years worth) to LoTW in Decembe
http://www.mountainzone.com/mountains/detail.asp?fid=2564756 SSB and CW until after midnight local and from 6 AM until end of contest. Have fun everyone! Look our way please. Doug K4LY _____________
K4LY EM85wb, Windmill Hill, South Carolina, will operate SOLP on 6, 2, 222, 432, 902/3, 1296, and 2304 durring the contest. Antennas and take-off from hill good for 300-500+ miles under normal condit
Plans to operate VHF contest are tentative due to line noise which has been in the S6- 59+20 range these past few weeks and quite bad for over a year. The Duke Power RFI man and I identified 8 poles
I will be operating LP again from Windmill Hill home QTH with 200 watts out on 6M and 2M, 80W on 222, 100W on 432, and 10W or less on 902, 1296, and 2304. Have a new 2M Directive Systems LVA, 8 x 5 e
Kevin, Thanks for your study and proposals, Kevin. I'll be sending you my log. I have argued for a distance metric for over 15 years because it would be more exciting, encourage the "weak signal" in
Almost no activity during 6M sprint. I listened off and on for a couple of hours and worked the only six stations I heard. Today operated my 52nd consecutive Perseids meteor shower on 2M. Operated as
I was a very unhappy member of the Contest Advisory Committee almost twenty years ago when the ARRL changed the original rover rules which promoted the activation of less populated grids and rewarded
The distance metric scoring is long overdue and the absolute, best possible change. The early May date, just before much 6 meter E-skip kicks in, seems appropriate for a UHF contest. I don't think tr
Sean, found this http://stores.ebay.com/hfvhfparts/Transverters-/_i.html?_fsub=9263173014 Doug K4LY _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting
I'll be on .190 CW, SSB, and ..140 JT65 this evening. K4LY EM85wb SC _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.co
In time for 2nd 10 gHz weekend and Sept VHF contest . I have a DEM 10386- 144LP older model back from DEM in unopened box inspected and working perfectly. I will be at flea market space 43 at Shelby
Dave, sorry to hear of your strange antenna loss. I had a weird, but much less costly, antenna loss last year and haven't mentioned it to anyone because it's so strange. For the past 7 years, I have
After getting my 2304 loop yagi at 74' agl on the tower lat week and my dual band 5.7/10 dish on the tower at 72' agl this week, I worked W4DEX at 99 miles on both 2304 and 5760 CW today and copied W
For many decades starting in the 1950s I submitted my VHF (and HF) contest results to the ARRL. I also reported my results on 3830 kHz back in the days, and on the 3830 web site since then. For some
Hi Dave, Thanks for your observations, oldtimer! It's tough being old, hi hi. The 10GHz-Up@groups.io discussion got me thinking about the scoring again, and how a busted call or miscopied report pena