I guess I would put myself into the category of not really caring about assisted stations. As a rover, I suppose it would be nice to use APRS and have all stations be able to find and use the informa
I'm looking over the scores from September and I noticed something odd. VE3OIL/R and VE3SMA/R both have 7 QSOs on 24 ghz and 8 mults. How can you have 8 mults on 7 QSOs? Steve K4GUN/R _______________
I'm getting the same thing. I did find a group with 3 members called "VHF" and another called "VHF Crew" with 12 members. That second one has a common interest of "food and drink". Steve ____________
I've kept quite on all of this debate because I really can't figure out how I feel about it. I'm fairly ambiguous about "assisted" contesting. For me, the only assistance that I would like is to be a
The no repeater rule makes perfect sense to me. Its amateur gear, but not your amateur gear. In effect, you're using another operator in a contest. I guess it could be used for Unlimited Rovers to ma
With all the recent discussions about rules, I thought I'd post a topic that gets back to actual operating. I'm trying to decide where to rove in June this year. Last year, I made a few mistakes with
I got mine yesterday as well. Third place overall Limited Rover!!! Yup... drive a Toyota as well. I'm hoping to talk them into doing it again this year. We'll see Steve K4GUN/R ______________________
What the heck? What happened to the VUAC recommendation about limiting the number of rover to rover contacts? If the ARRL is not going to address grid circling in the Limited Rover category, I don't
"Take it easy"? I used the word "heck" instead of a variety of other words that sprung to mind so I would say that I am taking it fairly easy. If you fail to see why grid circling is not a problem, t
Wrong. Wrong wrong wrong wrong. Try it sometime and you'll see just how wrong that answer is. Steve K4GUN/R _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@co
You chose a bad time to ask this question. We're in the middle of a very heated debate and a lot of guys are deleting a lot of messages from this reflector. Your question however, is a good one. With
I've been reading through all of the hoopla and have a few comments. 1. I am glad the ARRL did at least address the higher band issue with regard to LR. The lunchbox portable microwave stations reall
I missed where you mentioned the possibility of roving. I wrote an article about getting started in roving that was published in the October 2008 QST magazine. Since writting it, I have learned a lot
I'd like to hear an answer to this simple question from anybody who doesn't understand why the classic and limited rovers are upset about this latest flap over some obviously misguided rules. Tell me
Thanks you for that reply. I would like to hear from the pack-rover apologists to see if they concur with your assessment of why it was created. Steve K4GUN/R ________________________________________
That brings up another good idea. Find one of the local contest clubs and volunteer to operate. The big guns are usually quite happy to have another interested operator show up and relieve them for a
Glenn, First of all, you say that you enjoy roving more than portable and that you won your category three times. Did you actually win them or did the guy that assembled the station, paid for the gea
On my first rove, I didn't have 222 SSB. I built a small, hand-held yagi for 223.5 and ran it to my Yaesu VX6R. I think I made 6 contacts and 3 mults in January. Considering that it was my first rove
Due to some unfortunate circumstances, I can't afford the time nor expense of a major roving expedition. This contest will be similar to my January 2009 route which wasn't too bad. Because I have to
Ugh... this is going to be a tough contest. I have more bugs this time than in any previous year. I'll spare the details on the lack of a 432 amp and get right to the worst problem. My Demi Transvert