On VHF there is not all that much to be gained from watching cluster spots. A spot from someone two hundred miles east of me, spotting someone 400 miles east of me, is likely to be useless. A spot fr
I think we all agree that getting the IC-706 or K3 kind of HF guy into VHF is critical. And while we can all beg and plead to our friends to get on, we are stuck with an old rule in the ARRL contests
Duffy - I haven't done a lot of research, but then again nobody has ever provided and authoritative answer. I think the multi-entry rule has been around longer than rovers. My own guess is that way,
It's not just the antenna, it's also the feedline and the space at (or near) the top of one's tower. How many 2 meter ringos are still up there collecting oxidation from the days of packet and when p
I also send my sympathies to Duffey. I was almost there and done that... in the Michigan QSO Party last April we nailed a deer in Mecosta county, Michigan, about 250 miles away from home. Luckily in
After plugging the Sprint on a couple of local reflectors, I forgot all about it until an email report arrived at 10:15 pm local. So I went downstairs and made 14 qsos in 11 grids. Conditions seemed
I've finally gotten around to the good cold winter day project of getting onto Logbook of the World. In trying to sign the log for last year's CQ VHF contest I get the error message: Error: A:\CQVHF1
Changing CQ-WW-VHF to CQ-VHF was the secret. Thanks! I also noticed the problem with the Russian DX Contest logs. I used the Cabrillo spec'd RDXC and tQSL still does not like that. But that remains a
For years I have noticed some sort of slow speed telemetry signal on 50.189 coming from the south when the band is open that way. Maybe coming from the Gulf of Mexico or down that way? Anyone else no
I know it's been mentioned here before, but that ideal EME site in California is still on the market, and now featured in the NY Times. _http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/us/jamesburg-earth-station-c
And something else has changed since the days of Glow FETs. Back then FM radios had solid state devices called "crystals". Often there were two of these for each FM channel, and they cost real money.
I worked guys on six via Es as close as FN13 and EN75, so there was a good cloud up there somewhere that could have supported 2M Es. I suspect this qso was real. 73 - Jim K8MR EN91gk In a message dat
Not precisely a contesting question, other than it concerns my VHF contesting station. But rather than subscribe to some other reflector for advice on one question, I'll pose it here. I recently repl
For those of you concerned about conflicts with the NFC and AFC Championship games, you might consider moving to northeast Ohio. No playoff worries here, and the nearby markets of Detroit and Buffalo
Also, VHF and even more so UHF, is very unforgiving about local geography. If you are not up high, you are starting at a big disadvantage. Many years ago, in a former location at 800 AS,L I would lis