Sounds like some of us want the inverse of the 703, a "709". No HF, but would have 6m, 2m, 432... maybe it would be a "cheap" radio then? Would that make room for 220 or 1296 or maybe 900? Oops, that
Okay, I have to admit... y'all can let the air out of my tires, clobber my front ends, and bend my yagis into pretzels. That was ME on Watchusett, I think? I told the guy a few minutes, as I had a sc
In a related question: What RF level are people driving the Avantek PA's with to get the rated output? Thank you, Greg - K2LDT PS - I disabled the onboard power supply, and run it with a -12 V and +1
This is a response to the following: "I don't see the technical challenge being greater than random VHF or UHF contacts however." contained in the email below. It's not an attack on anybody, just som
Well... you can't base anything on 6 data points. In fact, it could be the same guy replying 6 times! (fake email happens... happened here, oh man it was great the flurry that caused!!) I should also
Hello all, The K2LDT rover team* schedule (in UTC time) is: Saturday, near Watertown, NY: FN23 - 1800 to 1930 FN24 - 2000 to 2200 Sunday, near Cobourne, Ontario: FN03 - 1000 to 1200 FN04 - 1230 to 14
Good evening, The K2LDT roving team will be visiting a few grids on the East and South side of Lake Ontario this contest. We are also looking forward to temperatures 50°F warmer than last year. Y
Hello all, As anybody here ever modified a Mirage C211G 100W/220 MHz Amplifier for a heavier bias? It seems like it is not linear enough for SSB operation. It makes spec on gain and power out, and le
Hello all, My rover runs usually entail hitting the shore grids around Lake Ontario, and sometimes EN93/94 and/or FN25. We start either in the EN's, or in FN04 north of the lake, running up to 12 ban
Ahh... unless you pulled both blanks with your Z! Or as I do... hold the Z the whole game for the perfect word, and then subtract 10 off your final score. ____________________________________________
Alright, I guess it is officially contest season now! Greg - K2LDT _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/
What he could have added was that the upper band multipliers call really pump up your score. Of course, during a big opening, nobody is on the higher bands anyway. Who wants to talk to somebody in On
Hello all, The K2LDT rover will again be circumnavigating Lake Ontario. The approximate schedule is: FN03tw 2 to 3:30 PM EST Saturday FN04xa 4:30 to 6:30 PM EST Saturday FN15tb 9:30 to 11:30 PM EST S
I think there would be some kind of detector on the RF input line, like a diode connected to a transistor. If that is how they did it, it would be between the input relay (from the TX point of view)
Hello all, The K2LDT rover will be out for the contest. This time we will be running from Ottawa to Buffalo along the southern edge of Lake Ontario. We have up through 10 GHz, with good antennas on a
Hello everybody, The K2LDT rover schedule will approximately be: All EST: Saturday FN25na 2 to 4:30 PM FN24dl 7:30 to 9:30 PM SundayFN14xc 8 AM to 9:30 AM FN13wg 11 AM to 12:30 PMFN03wa 4 PM to 5:30
Well here is a collection of thoughts, which turned into a rover list. Once you build two, it gets complicated. A good sequencer, or at least a sequence of dekeying steps that protects the receiver.T