Dave No doubt a VHF tribander would be a great boon to VHF activity. As far as I know only one was ever marketed. Ariane, the company that took over C3I when Owen Wormser retired, had one on their bo
Useful information Tom. K8CC and I have been talking about an in-line tribander with 2 meters in front of 6 meters and 432 in front of 2 meters. No intercalation. I *think* you can intercalate the el
Not so Jay. At least for the June contest, the east coast is at a serious DISADVANTAGE. Es is much better from the midwest and the southwest. In fact were the ARRL VHF contests not all microwave cont
My results are as follows W3ZZ Spring Sprint 144 MHz -- 4 hours operating 73 Qs 19622 points If we submit Cabrillo files I assume that the sponsors have obtained or written software that will calcula
I am in need of a grid map of the Caribbean that includes the state of Florida and maybe the Texas coast as well. The only things I can find are copyright and I cannot contact the owners in time to m
Next Wednesday May 25 I will be presenting a Potomac Valley Radio Club Webinar entitled: VHF Contesting: What to do and How to Win at 0100Z (Tuesday night our time). I know some of you have already s
The date is Wednesday May 26 at 0100Z. That's May 25 Tuesday in the evening for those of us in the US. Sorry --W3ZZ Next Wednesday May 25 I will be presenting a Potomac Valley Radio Club Webinar enti
I am interested in data on TWO meter Es during the June contest. I know there was some during the 00-02Z period on June 13 between the northeast and midatlantic and the southwest particularly Texas.
Jim - there were tons of DX stations operating in our beacon band from 50.060 to 50.080 because the 20 KHz higher was so crowded. For stations in the south and Midwest the east coast beacons must hav
In spite of getting close to 100 Email reports of 2 meter E skip in June, no one has reported ANY 222 MHz Es although many tried. For the next World Above 50 MHz column in September, has anyone heard
Hi Dave This data is presented by class rather than by Division on a website that Andy K1RA has created www.vhfscores.info. This website has much of Curt Roseman's (K9AKS) data and a bunch of Grid Ma
It's probably not so difficult to work OA now that we have Jack with QRO and a big antenna. But Scandinavia won't be back any time soon unless cycle 24 is a whole lot better than anyone thinks. --Ori
I would like to bring the community more up to date about the status of VHF+ information on the new ARRL Web. As most of you know the transition to the new Web site which occurred this spring has bee