Mike wrote <doing his best Artie Johnson> INTERESTING ... verrry verrry Interesting. I'm sure scanning the simplex portions of the bands would / should produce many contacts. I'm not sure what you me
And in some states its illegal to have a laptop where the driver can see the screen while the vehicle is in motion. -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com Character = How you treat people who can do
EV, out here in the heathen lands west of the Mississippi some of these ideas like HamIM are going to catch little traction for rovers & portable operators to even consider let alone embrace. I'm all
Would someone explain to me how this would encourage the casual on seldom contester to get on the air? I would contend that this does more to discourage than encourage participation in the contests.
I circulate this on a regular basis to remind people you don't have to spend half the national debt to have some fun. http://www.ka5cvh.com/vhf/contest.htm http://www.ka5cvh.com/vhf/index.htm -- Mike
This is what I posted on contesting.com I'm still wanting to put together a trip to DL-79 for a contest. That is a one day drive out there, no power, no phone <cell is even tough> and definately no i
OK, I'm willing to take this on as a new thread instead of a format survey unless someone wants to do it for me. How important is it you to have individuals or groups make an investment in a VHF DX-p
Another good rig but no longer in production is the FT-726 / FT-736. The 736 is a 4 band with 144 / 430 as the core and you can add two of either 50 / 222 / 1290 -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH Actually I vote
Mike asks So would it be safe to recommend that say only 50% of a rovers q's / points can come from other rovers? -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH We do not have a drug dependenacy problem, We do not have an al
Check out photos here too! http://ka5cvh.com/photos/ -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://www.moveamericaforward.org/?Page=AdCampaign _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing lis
I've been slowly gathering pictures for my web-site in the photo gallery http://www.ka5cvh.com/photos/ look in "Rover Pictures" Also check out my vision for something maybe next year http://www.ka5cv
Texas Towers had some last summer. http://www.texastowers.com/ -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com Character is how you treat people who can offer you nothing in return _________________________
This is what we're trying to do in the Houston area to increase VHF activity. http://www.ka5cvh.com/vhf/contest.htm -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com Character is how you treat people who can o
50 watts to 150 watts is only about 4 dB, not hardly even an S-unit at the recieve end. Some people will use a piece of feedline between the two with enough loss to "limit" the power that goes to the
The Clear Lake Amateur Radio Club will be running SSB/CW/FM on 50MHz (A) and on 144/222/440 (B/C/D) FM only. We have tried running SSB/CW on (B/C/D) but the number of Q's is not worth the effort that
I think we're talking apples and oranges and getting several different scoring systems blurred. As far as FD goes a 2 transmitter station is not competing against a 7 transmitter station so no foul t
<big grin> NO NO NO you have to take the multiplier effect into consideration. That's 3 radios times 3 tranverters times 6 bands equals class 54A <ducking for cover> -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5c
For the next seven days my son, Chase, KC5MPK, and I are involved in an orienteering sports camp at the Sid Richardson Scout Ranch near Bridgeport TX Grid EM13bf Lat-Lon 33.2412°N, 97.8696°W
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Mike asks I "assume" you mean N3FJP :-) I run Scott's program as well and like it. -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com Lest we forget why http://ka5cvh.com/downloads/911.swf _____________________