Hi Tree: Ed K3DNE said it all concerning the activity hours. They are still valuable but asking everyone you work what other bands they have and relentlessly moving them without fail is the way to go
Bob -- the conference is well publicized in the VHF world but essentially unknown in the general world. It is the BIG conference in the VHF world. I will be there as well arriving Thursday afternoon.
There are some administrative matters I would like to bring to the group. Quite a few of you are posting without joining the reflector. To keep out spam this reflector will not accept non-member post
This message is being sent to several reflectors in hopes that it will be widely disseminated. I apologize if you see it more than once. This year's CQ World Wide VHF Contest will be the THIRD weeken
This message is being sent to several reflectors in hopes that it will be widely disseminated. I apologize if you see it more than once. This year's CQ World Wide VHF Contest will be the THIRD weeken
I will be out of town on business essentially until mid week next week. So if you send your log to cqvhf@cqww.com you may not get a confirmation until I return. 73 Gene W3ZZ Director, CQWW VHF Contes
To help get more folks on the air, the K8GP group is making available to the VHF+ community, very high quality RF cables at a VERY low cost. These are commercial cables at prices less than you often
Dave is correct. I just would like it to be warm and be daylight savings time all year round. A good reason to check the official rules and never trust the columnists :-) 73 Gene W3ZZ World Above 50
Remember though that while digital modes are specifically not prohibited, all contacts must be made station to station. The use of repeaters INCLUDING digipeaters and satellites is prohibited in all
Ed Good score! Many rovers list in their itinerary the 2 meter frequency they go back to after they're finished running the bands with whoever. For instance Bill W3IY/R was supposed to be on 144.233
Dave Surprisingly the strategy on the right coast is not much different than on the left coast. The key to winning is still working all the rovers on every band they have. It is just more difficult t
Bill Olson is exactly correct here. Even operators who do not use c.w. realize that it is the only way to go under really marginal conditions or with unusual propagation like AU. The trick is to enco
PLEASE SAVE THIS MESSAGE. Apparently there is some confusion about unsubscribing from the VHF Contesting list. This list does not use majordomo but uses mailman as the robot. So the way in which you
This is a reminder that the CQ WW VHF Contest will be held NEXT weekend beginning Saturday July 20 at 1800Z ending Sunday July 21 at 2100Z. This is a 6 and 2 meter contest only. Rules and log submiss
Steve I seriously considered making the CQWW VHF contest an all band affair when I began to run it in the year 2000 I was pursuaded otherwise for a number of reasons, mainly burnout and the desire to
As I reported this morning, the cqww.com site where the CQVHF contest logs go was rejecting mail. The site appears to be functioning correctly now. You can now send your logs to cqvhf@cqww.com I will
A couple of folks have asked me what form the CQWW VHF contest logs should take. Here is an abbreviated example for those that do not have logging software. CQWW VHF CONTEST - 2002 Page 1 CALLSIGN: W
I will be at the Central States VHF Society conference the next 4 days so though the robot will process your logs, there will be no confirmations of logs sent to cqvhf@cqww.com until next Monday. The
Scott N3RA recently asked a very useful question on this reflector -- what radios do people use on VHF. I would like to go one further and ask which integrated radio - one that covers on 6 meters and