In my limited experience, the Yaesu FT736R is really deaf. The Yaesu FT726R, despite being an older radio, has a much better receiver. It is, however, older, more likely to need attention, it lacks c
It's worth pointing out that N6TR is in a local environment where he is probably far less likely to find really strong nearby signals crunching his receiver than someone operating on a hilltop in W1.
You might want to check out SPLAT! (Surface Path Length And Terrain analysis application.) Plug in your latitude and longitude and run some analyses at different heights above ground to see if your l
Another thing to consider when it comes to tower height is feedline loss, especially on UHF and up. On top of a really good hill, it might make more sense to have a 35' tower with good feedline than
How is this relevant to VHF contesting? -- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R Department of the Computer
I have a 56K dialup line. In MNozilla/Flash on a Win98SE box, it took ~250 seconds to load the front page. The rest of the site is similarly slow. -- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" k
So, as a fixed station in a VHF contest, it seems to me that CU2QSO could be used in one of two ways: (a) I sit in front of a computer screen and wait for something to happen. Like watching TV but no
I completely agree with Tree, and I think his opinion is that of the majority of those who identify themselves as "contesters." Aside from your line item "score well," none of those activities is dep
Please do not send HTML-only email. -- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R Department of the Computer Scie
What radios are you using on each band? The interfacing capability of radios varies widely. If you have a separate station for each band, you really do not need the logging software to be able to rea
The ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes are January 12-13, 2002. -- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R Departmen
N5XU will be on in the contest. I'm sorry I don't have an exact itinerary of our operation or a lot of skeds or anything. Please work us anyway! -- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kha
But.... What's wrong with 3830@contesting.com? You don't even have to wait for someone to create a web page several days after the contest... To: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com> To: <vhfcontesting@con
What's up with www.downeastmicrowave.com? Did Down East go out of business? -- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsi
I'm surprised that I haven't seen any discussion of this here. In case any VHF contesters are still unaware, a proposal has been made and will be discussed at the next ARRL Board of Directors meeting
This was recently posted on the CQ-Contest reflector. I think it would be a great thing if the presidents (or even members) of VHF clubs sent similar comments of support for contesting in to the ARRL
It is very "legit." K1RO, QST Publisher, addressed the proposal at length on the CQ Contest reflector (http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/200201/) only _after_ it became an established rumor. An
Until 2000, it _was_ an all-band contest, and activity had sunk to an incredible low. In 2001, the format of the contest was changed to be 6M and 2M only, along with distance scoring, and activity ha