Author: kb1grs-vhfcontesting@vms.gratuitous.org (Joel N. Weber II)
Date: Thu Jun 19 16:44:12 2003
The club I'm involved in (w1xm) is looking into adding filters to our IC-746, which has never had any of the optional filters installed. It has been the rig we use for 6m in the VHF contests, and we
Author: kb1grs-vhfcontesting@vms.gratuitous.org (Joel N. Weber II)
Date: Thu Jun 19 16:44:07 2003
My point is that VHF contests ARE different than HF contests for the many reasons that others have already stated. 6 meters is a lot like 10 in operating practice but as Bill K1DY notes, even 2 meter
Author: kb1grs-vhfcontesting@vms.gratuitous.org (Joel N. Weber II)
Date: Thu Jun 19 16:44:28 2003
My experience at a multiop station has been that on bands above 6m, it seems like you need a cavity filter before your preamp if you want to be able to hear while another band is transmitting. Ideall
Author: kb1grs-vhfcontesting@vms.gratuitous.org (Joel N. Weber II)
Date: Thu Jun 19 16:44:29 2003
Being able to getting something off the web is a specific skill. Realizing why you should enter a contest is a very different sort of thing, and I know that if my only impression of VHF contesting h
Author: kb1grs-vhfcontesting@vms.gratuitous.org (Joel N. Weber II)
Date: Thu Jun 19 16:44:39 2003
1. The perception that VHF contesting has become "defacto" microwave contests. I really don't believe this is so, at least here in the upper Midwest, do having the microwave bands make a big differen
Author: kb1grs-vhfcontesting@vms.gratuitous.org (Joel N. Weber II)
Date: Thu Jun 19 16:44:40 2003
I seem to recall discussion of this a while ago, quite possibly on this list. One of the problems is that those who don't happen to own a GPS suddenly have another incentive to not participate.
Author: kb1grs-vhfcontesting@vms.gratuitous.org (Joel N. Weber II)
Date: Thu Jun 19 16:44:41 2003
A couple of things: 1) I didn't join this reflector because I wanted to spend infinite amounts of time deleting discussion of percieved decline in activity. I joined because I was interested in learn
Author: kb1grs-vhfcontesting@vms.gratuitous.org (Joel N. Weber II)
Date: Thu Jun 19 16:44:47 2003
I think it's best if we accept that the contest means different things to different people. There are those who enjoy building equipment, and there is an extent to which building equipment for rovers