Frank and Bob have answered a question that's been puzzling me ever since I got back into the game 3-4 years ago after a several decade absence. I'm an HF contester. When I got back in I couldn't fig
DN09 DN09 VE7FO VE7FO TEST So, after all the encouragement, did he actually make it up the mountain without forgetting anything and hand out some DN09 Q's? My elmer, VE7IN, (I used to be his) keeps s
Hi all, I have the opportunity to be at the top of Mt. Kobau, DN09EB, 6100 ft ASL for the last 4-5 hours of the CQWW VHF contest. Well, maybe the mountain top isn't EB, that's the turn-off point on t
Wow. Thanks for all the great responses. The reason for choosing the 6100 ft QTH 250 miles away vs my home is that I am going to be an hour's drive from there on Sat/Sun anyway and this is a golden o
Hi all, OK. Due to all the encouragement I received I'm going for it. VHF total newbie, VE7FO, is going to set up for CQWW VHF on Mt. Kobau, DN09, at 6100 ft with Icom 706 MkII and ancient DB62 beam
I belong to a club (VECTOR) here in Vancouver, B.C. which consists mostly of FM repeater guys and 2 died in the wool HF contesters. I like to encourage the club members to get involved in a wider ran
http://dayton.akorn.net/pipermail/3830/2004-July/subject.html#start http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/ 73 de Jim Smith VE7FO Curtis C. Roseman wrote: Does anybody know of a place where CQ WW VHF sc
Eric, Have a look at http://www.n6rk.com/falling_derrick_gme/falling_derrick_gme.html I put up a 40 ft tower (not a crank up) with small tribander plus vertical mounted above all by myself one Field
Dave Google "Falling derrick" Might give you some ideas as to how to put up something higher. A couple of Field Days ago I demonstrated the method. We had a 40 ft Delhi tower with an AlfaSPID rotator
Alex, Some time ago I tried to set up an FM Simplex mini-contest for our club members, most of whom know very little about ham radio outside the world of repeaters and Field Day. It piggy-backed on t