Bill, We've had two IC746Pros at the K8CC contest station for several years. One is mine, and the other belongs to my buddy K9TM. These have been used primarily on 50 MHz and 144 MHz as part of a lim
All: An interesting mix of radios under discussion. Since I have experience with all of them, let me add my $.02. My only experience with the FT-920 came on HF down at WP2Z where we endured a CQ WPX
Geez...this seems like a dumb idea. The first sizable branch you'll hit will likely rip the entire mast off the vehicle and destroy the antennas, feedlines, and maybe even take a little mobile rig li
One thing to keep in mind, that IC-37a is probably more than 20 years old. I have a IC-27h (the 2M high power model) and it was purchased new in 1984. Let's hope they go back that far... Dave/K8CC __
Shane, I've used one of those WX0B 6M Stackmatches since 2001 with no problems. In my setup, I have three dissimilar 6M antennas and I use the Stackmatch to switch between them or to drive more than
George, If I understand your observation correctly, I wonder if what you're seeing are the effects of scoring penalties resulting from log checking? Let me give an example. Let's say I make 100 QSOs,
All: While I acknowledge the point Robert is trying to make, there is a dark "other" side to this which I think gets ignored. Allowing a "limited multi" station with more than four bands to operate t
Steve, If you look in the Cushcraft catalog you'll find that they make a 50/144/432 antenna which is a A270-10 mounted on the boom of a 6L yagi. The 2M/70cm yagi is vertically polarized while the 6M
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Mike, I don't have any plans, but here are a couple of good homebrew examples built from boat trailers: http://home.comcast.net/~k8cc/Tower_Trailer.htm And this article shows these towers in action:
James, It would be helpful if you would identify the source of this information. I am the ARRL's log checker for the ARRL 160M and 10M contests, and I can tell you for certain that at least for those
One problem with this technique is that as the feedline becomes many half waves long, the bandwidth over which the match is good gets pretty narrow. One of my friends used this technique with about 3
Bob, It appears that the robot cannot decipher a Cabrillo 2.0 log. A year or so ago the Cabrillo specification was changed to 3.0, and all of the changes affected the "Category" which used to be all
A heads up for stations in SE Mich or NW Ohio about a couple of rover operations in their area this weekend. I plan to be active in the contest from my home station (K8CC) on Saturday. However, on Su
John, When I e-mailed Paul, W1GHZ about boards for his 222 transverter a week or two ago, he said the Toko helical filters and the 5W power module were the "unobtanium" parts. He said he was working
As I have been researching and trying to get my act together on 903 and 1296 MHz, I've seen references to radios which superimpose a positive voltage on the output coax during transmit. This voltage
Bill, I have a Yaesu G-450 (the low end of the line) which I've used a little on my 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee to turn rover antennas. I've powered it from the Jeep's built-in AC inverter and the rotat
All: Has anybody tried using the trick of applying a negative voltage to a FT-847's ALC input to reduce power to drive a transverter? This technique worked really well with my IC-756 with only -1.5V
My thanks to everyone who replied to my query about this. Apparently, the problem was that I wasn't aggressive enough. The FT-847 manual describes the control voltage range on the ALC input as 0 to -