If that's not a great display of enlightenment, then I don't know what is. ;-) The _nature of contesting_ on HF and VHF is exactly the same: making as many contacts as possible within a given time f
Excellent points, Dave. Indeed, what's the element of competition in VHF contesting? Some of the responses on this thread make you wonder why some folks look down on an Echolink contest. :-) The term
Sounds like you have time to spare. ;-) Just a while back I decided to give up on V/UHF since TVI b/c of a really bad cable system in my neighborhood drained all the fun out of it. Now less than two
Hi there, Someone pointed out to me that I used EST instead of EDT, which I really meant to use. Of course I should've used UTC times. So let me post the times in UTC for which I will be QRV: Saturda
Cool, so we can still use the supercheck partial database and the QRZ cdroms to verify call and grid data. :) (Don't worry, we used paper logging. :) ) 73, --Alex KR1ST (EM92) http://www.kr1st.com __
I'm somewhat of a newbie too, and I concur. My wife and I were a first time rover this year and found that as soon as 6m opened up, that the contest got really really boring. I didn't built 2 and 432
Hi Jacob, I think that's an excellent approach to many things. :) If you are able to rotate the dipole (armstrong method perhaps), then yes, it works a heck of a lot better especially since you can g