The error message is a bit in exact in that it should be telling you that your date and time is out of the range of the contest date. July 20th was Monday after the contest. Begins: 1800 UTC Saturday
First I will say for the most part I have not been following this issue. I have however been wondering one thing. Is there something about JT65 that requires that you have assistance to make contacts
I host multiops for the June VHF contest and I don't make skeds. We have won this contest. Maybe we would win more or by more if we did make skeds. I personally do not find it fun to make skeds befor
Yep. I did a sort of subject and did not pay attention to date. The arrl contest results are on the web here: http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/ ie: The June 2008 results are here: http://www.arrl
I would really like that sort of information. I think it would be cool. Several efforts have been made in the past for some contests to compile this sort of data. CQ magazine produced an amateur radi
The power connector on the AM-6155 takes an Nema ML3-C connector - I got one from MacMaster-Carr. Or maybe ML3-15 Their web pages are kinda hard to give direct links. http://www.mcmaster.com/#nema-pl
to make 2000+ contacts on 6 meters. -- George Fremin III - K5TR geoiii@kkn.net http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contes
They did not. The ARRL and CQ DX contests have both assisted and non-assisted categories for single ops in their contests with the exception of the CQ WPX RTTY contest and the CQ VHF contest. I think
Yep - sounds like a great plan for the VHF contests. This is very much like categories based on power. Maybe - but you know we have power boat races and sailboat races they do not need to all be powe
Looks cool. For rovers that want antennas installed on the vehicle thus needing no setup I have two ideas. A QUAD - a Four element quad would fit on your truck and could even have other bands in the
Yes it is. And you can do well in contests doing them that way. I do not use callsign or exchange databases when I operate. -- George Fremin III - K5TR geoiii@kkn.net http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr _______
I have been a rover with only fm on 222 and I have worked rovers that had only fm on 222 as well. But the real trick seems to be even to find anyone with any gear on 222 fm or ssb. -- George Fremin I
I am not sure I agree with this statement. I do VHF contests. I do HF contests. While HF contests do tend to have more signals on the bands than doing a VHF contest here in Central Texas those signal
It seems to me that the above issue is not something that will not likely be solved by allowing any number of outside assistance. If you want to get people on the radio (or in the chat room etc) for
Yep - and I think this is a good thing. One thing that I have noticed over the last few years is what appears to be a disappearance of a number of the 2 Meter regulars here in Texas. These were folks
I do not live in the NE and I would like to maintain a category that is assistance free. Yes - this is a big problem when talking about this be it on HF or VHF. It has been clear to me for years that
I do not have a basement nor any candles but I generally operate radio contests without assistance. I think using terms like that is an attempt to denigrate those that choose to operate without using
I think you are confusing "hard to do" with inhenet diffrences in propagation and normal working distance between HF and VHF. If you lived in a place (or I did) where there are many people to work wi
Yes, working California to Oklahoma is thrilling on 2 meters. But not because it is hard to do but because it does not happen everyday - it is a relatively rare event. But it can be done with not ver
Really? I never claimed an announcement will make or be the contact. Just as calling CQ on the radio is not a contact. What is a CQ? CQ is a solicitation for a contact. What are you going to post on