Most 2L director yagis have spacing much closer that you describe. You'll find there is a lot more gain in the 0.1 wavelength region. As you say, you're not looking for F/B, and at 50 MHz bandwidth i
Is anybody on this reflector enjoying this private conversation between W2EV and K2BM on this topic? Does anybody on this reflector care? How about taking this private, please? Dave/K8CC
It seems like we always look at the "captive" rover question from the standpoint of the "mother ship". It seems to me that each of these captive rovers are manned by one or more people. You would thi
Because there is no reason to. If they are just there for the DX, they got their QSO and maybe the QSL. Some people send in logs for every contest they operate. I think many people don't, unless they
I think the CQ VHF Contest's format of just two bands is great because it's different, and you only have to have two bands QRV. If there were 500 people available to work between two bands, it would
The wild diversions of this thread might be entertaining if it wasn't so ill informed. I have to agree with K2AXX - everybody take a deep breath and get a grip. I am on the ARRL Contest Advisory Comm
In my recent VHF experience (two man limited multi-ops with two rigs per op) the problem is not finding people to work, the problem is that there isn't enough people to work. I suppose this is obviou
I have been disappointed in the low number of INTERESTING posts. I have zero interest in reading about a guy who only put in a couple hours with a mediocre setup to make 50 QSOs who gripes about how
Amen! It would be a heck of a lot easier if people would take the time to make the Subject: field relevant rather than simply hitting the "reply" button. K8CC
Somewhere in all of this discussion about increasing VHF contest activity and rovers (captive, captivated, or otherwise) there is the seed of an idea. There are a very large number of hams who have b
This is an old wives tale that simply does not have any technical merit. I once got into a similar discussion about stacking tribanders and loaded 40M beams for HF contesting (i.e., which goes on top
I've had similar setups on one of my towers here at K8CC with good performance. The mast was 1-1/2" schedule 40 water pipe with about 10' sticking out of the tower. I had a 5L 10M beam (26' boom) at
I'm not sure that I'm smarter than Tree, but here are some reasonably well-informed observations. I've modeled a lot of quads using good modeling software (NEC/Wires by K6STI). Many of the published
This is one of the misconceptions about Cabrillo - there is no scoring info expected in the file. It is not a scored log - rather it is intended as raw QSO data. The log checkers re-calculate the sco
A lot of people think that just because we have electronic logs, the results can be almost instantaneous. Perhaps that can be true once people learn to send in Cabrillo logs that are not broken in so
I'd like to diplomatically point out that using non-amateur communication to request, or establish schedules during the contest period is against the ARRL contest rules. Dave/K8CC
Yeah, I remember the 1992 VHF QSO Party as well. It was my first shot with a decent station - 1000W out on 50, 600W out on 144 and 100W out on 432. 6M was terrific; I remember working west coast stat
At 03:22 PM 11/8/03 -0500, Lee Scott - AA1YN wrote: If someone worked the contest as a rover than I logged that person as call/R no mater what mode was used. This is a requirement of the ARRL VHF con
At 06:35 PM 2/5/04 -0800, Michael Urich wrote: I'm partial to the FT-100 but wouldn't take anything away from the 706 other than I understand that ICOM stands for I can only monitor. Yeah, but YAESU
I'm not going to bore the reflector with my opinions on the various aspects of the proposed rule changes, which I *did* send to the ARRL committee. However, Dave Olean's well-written note to Bill Sea