Hi guys, I would echo Bob's (N5NJ) statement. In all these ideal rig postings, I see no mention of dynamic range and phase noise considerations. I guess if you live in the booonies and use a small lo
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Geez, Bill, I sure wish I had the microwave activity you seem to have around the Old Dominion! I was on at 7 am and was amazed to hear just K1TEO weakly calling CQ on 1296. He disappeared before I co
Sprint! What sprint? I got on about 8:00 PM and was greeted by a wall of power line noise, which made receiving anything less than S5 impossible. The noise blanker helped abit, but conditions were ju
Hi Jake, My vote would be to use it. It was a pretty good antenna. It could be optimized for the low end, but really the differences are not too great. I remember seeing some computer models of the H
Hi contesters, What is going on with HSMS and WSJT in regards to ARRL contesting rules. I guess it is OK, but I remember when the league would not count a 1296 eme QSO with WB6IOM and a G station yea
Hi Dave, The genesis for my original post was the WSJT mode, which apparently, is a step up from the normal high speed meteor scatter. Essentially all of the detection is done by the computer. The op
Hi Joe, Gee, I hate to get on these reflectors with such questions, because things just seem to snowball and next thing you know, I have horns coming out of my head, and one big eye in the middle of
Hi Jon, I don't think the red squirrel would agree to help me out. I was pretty mean to him while chasing him out of the generator. I most likely hurt his feelings and ruined his self esteem. Good id
We were operating as a multi op unlimited and were on all the bands. The QTH was my home location in Maine a half mile behind my house. We did a bunch of work to the station in preparation for the w
Hi Zack, Good idea. We do that here since the coax bundle here looks like Napoli right after dinnertime. Use the resistor color code. Maybe Black for six meters, brown for 144 etc. etc. Then you can
Hi Folks, I had plenty of fun during the 144 Sprint on Monday night, I was QRV from about 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM. It sure was nice to hear lots of activity on the band. Contacts had been sparse since th
Hi Jeff, I sure would like to know how you work so many guys in a sprint. I got on at 2305 UT and did not hear anything anywhere for about 5 minutes. I finally broke the ice and worked someone in FN4
My 3 cents worth (with inflation): I agree with Ev about limiting bands or not limiting bands, but I also disagree about any other rules to limit groups of operators according to antenna gain, power
Hey this is getting fun! Too bad Hammarlund and Hallicrafters are not still around. I would love to see what they stand for! 73 Dave K1WHS _______________________________________________ VHFcontestin
Hi Bill, Great letter with some good comments. I have a few comments pertaining to your idea for eliminating (or reducing) captive roving with something like a 25% rule. First off, a rover should nev
Ed, I have to agree with Mr. Lass. I would not compare a scheduled 5 or 10 GHz rover contact with a random VHF contact unless my frequency accuracy was +/- 30 kHz on 144 depending on what time of day
Hello David, Please try a real preamp before swapping out the coax for more expensive stuff. 30 ft of low loss coax will not kill you at 432. (1.5 dB maybe?) If you are being heard at 5X5, and cannot
Those wireless weather styations use 433 MHz! They are BUMS! 73 Dave K1WHS -- Original Message -- From: "David Hinton" <ke4yyd@gtcom.net> To: <wsvhf@mailman.qth.net>; <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>;
Hi Steve, I worked all this weekend to get my ham station back together. I had a problem with the floor literally rotting out and sagging about 5-6 inches. (Not good!) I managed to get stuff fixed up