Hi Zack and the rest of the list.....I am currently building up 4 x 6el Cheap Yagis on 2M for portable / rover use. With a 400W TE brick, it should be easy to work EME, especially with the larger sta
Hello to everyone in the VHF / UHF community. The concept presented below has been "rattling around in my mind" for a very long time now. I have been watching the various reflectors for some time, no
Hello to VHF Contesters.....Below is a proposal that I have forwarded to my VUAC representative for consideration. Please read the proposal and if you agree, send your comments to that effect to your
Hello again to the VHF contesters on the list.... A month or so ago when I posted my first thoughts on this, I made a point of following a careful definition of what constitutes a valid VHF contact.
Hi Kenneth....If you enjoy that kind of operating, I am wholeheartedly in favor of you continuing to operate in that way. I don't want to take anything away from the guys that like to operate in that
Hello to all on the VHFContesting list......I felt compelled to comment on these two posting.....they seem to be saying the same thing but with different reasons. 1)Distilling Les' post......WSJT is
Hello Ron and all on the list....BRAVO!!! BRAVO!!! Ron, you have hit the nail with your head..... For years, the ARRL has been all about HFers and whatever the HFers wanted. It is high time that they
Hello all....for our White Rover, Army, AE5P, made a board that exactly fit the window opening. I think he used 1/2" x 6" stock. He is a great woodworker, so this(impossible for me) task was fairly e
Hello to all the VHF/UHF community.....below is our operations schedule of times and frequencies. If you hear us, please work us in the contest.....We will be on the look out for all our friends duri
Hello Chet and everyone else on the list....I would add another tried and true method....a matching stub. You can place a T connector in the feedline. The matching stub goes to one side of the T, the
In what can only be described as a "coup at midnight" a few Anti-Assistance folks on the VUAC have removed the Assisted classes from the ARRL EME contest. This was done essentially in secret, out of
Hello again to all....I have not been able to get the Contest Branch to give me a straight answer as to whether or not a Protest Log(a log with NO contacts) would be counted as a "Log Received". Henc
Hello to everyone on the list....Robert's point is well taken. As much as I am disgusted by what has happened, my disgust does not fall to the level of participating and then turning in a NO Contacts
Hello everyone....It is possible that in the remote past when WSJT first got started, there were some people that passed contact information over the Internet and then claimed that they had made a co
Hello everyone....I hate to get involved in these "mine is bigger than yours" contests. But, here goes.....My personal best is 1604 miles from EM31 to KY1K in FN54. This happened during an intense Es
Hello to all our friends in the VHF / WSJT world from the K5QE contest team.... K5QE will be operating in the ARRL Sept VHF Contest and would really appreciate any contacts that we can make via FSK44
BRAVO Frank....a little disjointed(aren't we all), but well said. The grid circling and pack roving is a problem and no fix is in sight. As everyone should know by now, I have been protesting the hij
Hello everyone....in my last post, I gave an address for Sean, KX9X, the ARRL Contest Branch Manager. Apparently, that email is not now valid. Sean's correct email is kx9x@arrl.org -- so when you wri
Hello Steve and all....I have corresponded with Jimmy off the reflector. I think he is a decent guy who strongly believes that his way is the only way. He is certainly entitled to his opinion. Howeve
Hi Ron....WELL SAID....I posted something similar recently to my VUAC rep. I encourage you to send your post to your rep as well. Here is what I sent privately to another op on this question: Unfortu