Les, the Central States VHF Society has an awesome reverse VUCC award for rovers, or VUCC/R. Yes, its not the ARRL, but some may say that is better (grin). I am an active participant, especially on 2
<snip> Perhaps it would help to get an idea what other rovers are doing as far as contacts with other rovers. In June, I made 251 QSOs. Of those, 13 were with other rovers. This was as a Limited Rove
Hi John. Regarding "captive rovers" the rules are structured to discourage this practice. General VHF Rule 2.3.5 says "All Rovers are encouraged to adopt operating practices that allow as many statio
Hello Zack. W0ZQ/R will be in southeast MN, what we call the St. Charles grid corner - EN33/34/43/44, on Saturday. The Hepburn tropo map is looking promising so look up this way ! I have worked down
Here is my planned routes & times for this weekends contest: Saturday: EN44ab 1:00pm to 3:00pm EN43aw 3:20pm to 5:20pm EN33ww 5:35pm to 7:35pm EN34oi 8:35pm to 10:30pm Sunday: EN35ad 6:30am to 7:50am
I looking for more power on 5760. I am currently running 2 watts from a DEMI transverter, but would like to get into the 8 watts or more class running off of 13.8 vdc for roving use. Any designs or s
We use 902.100 up here in the frozen tundra of MN but 95% of us are crystaled so that 145.1 = 903.100 and when the band is open to the east,sometimes this is very handy. 902 is an awesome band - my e
Hi Zack. Most of us in the Twin Cities run a cavity filter ahead of any 902 receiver or preamp .... its mandatory as the 900 spectrum is VERY RF intensive. Without the cavity my RF front end is satur
Don't forget to get your ARRL August UHF contest logs into the League by Tuesday, September 6th. Remember that paper logs are OK .... see the directions below. Here are the submission rules from the
The following note is from the Microwave Update 2008 chairman. This years MUD is being held in Bloomington, Minnesota, home of the Mall Of America, on October 17 & 18. See the referenced website belo
Hello Marshall and all. Good to see an open discussion on rules .... in this case rover rules. Yes, this discussion can be tiring, but if we keep it civil and offer suggestions with pro's & cons it i
Hello John & all. I did a "five minute analysis" on what bands the Limited Rovers used for the January (n= 24 logs) and June (n=26 logs) contests. I combined these into one pool ... perhaps not the b
"Should I be punished or excluded or treated like a leper because I figured out a way to Make Big Scores?" Hi Gerry. I don't think anyone is going to "punish or exclude". No way. The discussion point
There is nothing wrong with Unlimited Rovers. Just like there is nothing wrong with multi-op stations and SOHP stations. Each has its place and competes against similar stations. The discussion h
Hi Chet. I like "WinGrid" by W4SM. Do a Google. The distance box can be toggled between miles and km by left clicking on the word "Distance" just above the display box. Its very simple, stand-alone,
Hi Bill, I'll take a swing at this. General Contest rule 3.10 states - "The use of non-Amateur Radio means of communication (for example, Internet or telephone) to solicit a contact (or contacts) dur
Just two comments. First, I have often wondered why the big three VHF contests (June/Sept/Jan) have the same format. If you include the UHF contest, that makes four. Wouldn't it be fun to have some o
snip > At any given time out on the road, we have 1-5 other rovers in range. Nothing is more fun that working a VE rover across Lake Ontario in one grid and then again the next day in two other grids
snip > I would suggest the 10 GHz contest rules are a good place to start with formulating distance based scoring. Look on the ARRL web page for them. As to 6M, that is a different beast. I think we
Hello fellow VHF contesters. As you may know, I am the Dakota Division VUAC representative. A full list of who is your ARRL Division VUAC representative can be found at http://www.arrl.org/contests/v