There are three ways you can do this: K1EA DVP card (requires one ISA slot) W9XT Contest Card (requires one ISA slot) SoundBlaster compatible sound card If all you have is PCI slots, yor only real ch
Just so people don't forget to work me in the contest, I thought I'd let everyone know I'm going to be on in the ARRL June VHF QSO Party with a multi-op group using a callsign. We'll be at that place
So, I'm just dying to know - did W2SZ/1 really get all twelve of their captive rovers on the air? To: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com> To: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com> -- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Cl
It is not a unique problem. Maybe having everyone within five miles of one another is more extreme than most situations, but the problem of dealing with your VHF neighbors is something with which I a
This is simply not true in Oklahoma, Texas, or just about anywhere outside of the northeast U.S. I once, as an experiment, spent an entire ARRL September VHF QSO Party calling CQ on 144.205 or higher
I received a certificate for placing fourth in the rover category of the "January 2002 S.W.O.T. 144 MHz Contest." I did not enter any such contest. Did anyone else get something from S.W.O.T.? -- --
Am I the only person annoyed that this list has become a discussion forum for Microsoft Windows software problems, and not a discussion about VHF/UHF radio contesting? This thread is way outside the
http://www.etdxa.org/2002%20Spring%20Sprint%20Rules.htm -- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R Department
I found this comment on the Elecraft reflector by G4HLX interesting: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/elecraft/2002-May/016839.html Is anyone else using the K2 for a transverter IF? -- -- Kenneth E.
I know a lot of "serious" VHF contest stations, especially the multi-ops, make skeds before the contest. Some of them make a lot of skeds. Am I the only one who finds this somewhat distasteful? This
This is a common misconception. You do not lose points for "unique" QSOs in the Sweepstakes. The log checking software identifies them for you, and puts them in your UBN report (for _your_ education
I guess my concern with skeds made before the contest is that you have done a lot of work to get a lot of information "pre-loaded." You will already know the other station's callsign, grid square, fr
Moving stations (especially multipliers) from one band to another happens all the time in HF contests. Except that the time and effort to figure out who the station is and where they are and where th
I'm not sure this is always true. In 2000, W5KFT finished second in the limited multi-operator category in the ARRL June VHF QSO Party, and they had no pre-arranged skeds. (BTW, why are we now cross-
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, the best site for AM-6155/AM-6154 information is: http://www.n1rwy.com/am6155/ Unfortunately, the mods available there for 144 and 222 are not as "recipe" like as
In 2001, the writeups for both the ARRL UHF Contest and the ARRL 10 GHz and Up Contest were written by Dan Henderson N1ND, who runs the ARRL Contest Branch. Dan has written the vast majority of conte
In the situation he describes, that is self-spotting. Traditionally, self-spotting has been seen as placing your callsign and your CQ frequency on a DX cluster. Blasting away continuously on APRS wit
3a: Build an Elecraft K2 and Downeast Microwave transverters. -- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R Depar
I've used both the Yaesu FT-726R and the Yaesu FT-736R. The 736R, despite being the newer rig and thereby probably more reliable, is unfortunately not a very good receiver. The 726R has a much better