Since I have been the most vocal and I am also the one that equated the self spotting with CQing. I am guessing that you are saying that I do not operate in or enter VHF contests? I operate as many a
I am sorry that I am not active enough for you to think my experience and views matter. The other VHF contests of the year are much harder for me to carve out a weekend for - between kids and other n
I do not own this server - I am one of the people that keeps it going and on the internet. After Gene W3ZZ passed away I took this list's small amount of admin duties. -- George Fremin III - K5TR geo
Thank you. I was not upset with you comments. I am glad that we can hold these disscusions about the contests and the rules. -- George Fremin III - K5TR geoiii@kkn.net http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr ______
Yes. Promoting the contests and activity are really the keys to getting folks on the radio. It really never ends. You have to tell people about the contests and remind them and encourage them to get
Maybe this will give ideas for people in other parts of the country. Here is what he did in the DFW area: -- Eric NM5M -- .....getting VHF and above folks on the air is not trivial. I worked on incre
Generally if you submit two logs for a contest with the same callsign the most recent log will be the one that is kept. So - yes if you sent in your checklog for the same callsign after you sent this
I don't think CQ or CQ-VHF have gone away. As I understand it starting in Feb 2014 ".... content from the magazine's three sister publications, Popular Communications, CQ VHF and WorldRadio Online, w
Most of the skimmers I have seen only cover the CW part of the band. That is good for beacons and such but as we all know the DX window gets alot of CW activity working DX and I use CW all over the b
I can tell you (as the person who checks the logs) please do not log rovers like this it is a mess in the logs. If your logging program will not let you log /r get one that does. Or fix them after th
I am sorry to hear this - Mike was always easy to work - even if we were very weak to eachother at 500+ miles. He was always willing to dig me out of the noise. I will miss hearing his call on the ba
Glad to hear you will be on. In the VHF contests here in Texas - I am in EM00 - I make most of my contacts on SSB/CW with horizontal antennas. If you do try SSB - even a simple dipole or quad loop ho
The W5DMB/R rover is planning on being on the road this weekend. We should have 50 - 100 watts horizontal omni 144 - 100 watts 9 element yagi 222 - 100 watts 10 element yagi 432 - 100 watts 15 elemen
I am looking for folks that have practical experience using dishes larger than the normal ~2ft / 60cm dishes for terrestrial work. Thanks George K5TR _______________________________________________ V
The ARRL is now making logs public for contests: https://contests.arrl.org/publiclogs.php?cn=sepvhf <https://contests.arrl.org/publiclogs.php?cn=sepvhf> I do not think there is a buik download of all
Hello fellow VHF contesters. I have only been loosely following this thread recently. I have not been reading many of the messages to this list for a few years now so I may not be fully up on what al
Yep seems clear to me - that it is allowed. PROH.3. Spotting your own station ("self-spotting") or asking to be spotted by another station. Sigh. The published rules seem to be at odds with themselve
The conflicing rules are all in the same PDF https://contests.arrl.org/ContestRules/JanJunSep-VHF-Rules.pdf <https://contests.arrl.org/ContestRules/JanJunSep-VHF-Rules.pdf> __________________________
This would just be a mess. I do not enjoy doing digial contests. The VHF contests have become digital contests. Indeed the VHF bands are turning into digial only bands for a lot of activity. I have g