Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:03:31 -0800
Slightly off-topic, but... There's now a transverter article on Wikipedia. It could certainly use a photo (I'm imagining one with the cover off, showing the main PCB) and maybe some additional text.
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:57:26 -0800
W5ZN enters lots of VHF+ contests and has been a member of the ARRL's Ad Hoc VHF/UHF Contest/Awards Study Subcommittee that is being converted into a standaing VHF/UHF Advisory Committee. -- Kenneth
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:55:47 -0800
The example Cabrillo file format for ARRL VHF+ contest logs shows "902" as the correct designation for that band. See: http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/ http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/qso-templat
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:14:30 -0800
There is still, to this day, no requirement that you use a computer to log or submit an entry to an ARRL sponsored VHF contest. You can log on paper and submit that log through the mail: http://www.a
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:25:14 -0800
The ARRL log submission robot is not the only "customer" of Cabrillo format data. As someone who has written software that reads in Cabrillo logs myself, I can tell you it's madness to have to antici
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 05:24:30 -0700
This is unfortunately incorrect. I have operated a lot of contests from a four-band station with individual monoband yagis at ~90' and brick amplifiers or better located in the center of a relatively
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 17:54:37 -0700
ETDXA 50 Mhz Sprint Summary Contest Dates : 13-May-06, 14-May-06 Callsign Used : K5TR Station : K5TR Operator : WM5R Category : SOHP Country : United States BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults ____
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 07:00:24 -0700
For general information, m_anstrom appears to be KC9FJE, probably an actual subscriber to the reflector (which is why these are getting through). Maybe the admin should disable postings from that acc
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:33:12 -0700
The Contest Advisory Committee (CAC), the ARRL's HF analogue to the VUAC, does not get to assign itself any tasks - everything it does is at the specific request of the Membership Services Committee
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 05:31:37 -0700
As I recall, each elected Division Director appoints a members from their Division to the CAC and VUAC. Actually, that would be useful. The ARRLWeb, where something like that should be easy to find,
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 05:49:30 -0700
This is a bizarre attitude. Before the formation of the VUAC, ARRL VHF contest rules were established and modified by either the Membership Service Committee or Program and Services Committee, both o
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:09:27 -0700
I don't think that is true. Most VHF/UHF contesters get on SSB/CW because that is were the majority of the contest activity takes place. Adding FM capability increases the cost and complexity of the
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 05:38:32 -0700
One thing to consider with the TS-690 is that if you want amp keying, the DIN connector with that pin comes out the side of the rig, not the back like every other radio on the planet. This may limit
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:56:05 -0700
W9XT's VK-64 is essentially an external version of the Contest Card plus a CW memory keyer built into one box. The DVK would interface with contest logging software through an LPT port. It's not an e
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 08:03:06 -0800
Of all the solutions to VHF contesting's problems I've seen, this is the first time I've seen someone suggest socializing contest logging software. Why don't we just make the contest sponsors supply
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:16:43 -0800
The ARRL Contest Branch only administers the contests, they do not create the rules. Contest rules are created by a subset of the ARRL Board of Directors (those on the Membership Services Committee).
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 08:50:55 -0800
Yes - you cannot combine the grid totals worked from your home QTH and the grid totals worked from the hilltop QTH if the two are more than 200 km / 300 meters (depending on the band) apart from one
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:36:37 -0800
I think people are making this too complicated. Draw a circle of 200 kilometers in _diameter_ (100 kilometers radius), centered on your home QTH or somewhere else, and that's the footprint inside of
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 09:41:50 -0800
The Contest Scores Database (http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/scoredb/) now has 365,311 line scores from over 40 different amateur radio competitions. In a few cases, we have every line score ever in a conte