And don't forget to tune +/- 50 kHz or more from those calling frequencies, especially on 6&2M. N9DG ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better G
If APRS is to be allowed then we may as well also allow contest time phone calls and QSO chat pages. Let's just turn VHF contesting into being a 100% outside of the contest communications means sched
I'll try and head this one off at the pass. The inevitably the question will be something like: "Duane why do not like APRS for contesting, but fully support Real-time logging, isn't that also 'netwo
What I've noticed over the last 15 years or so is that very few non-weak signal ops are interested in trying to work DX on 2M FM anymore when the band is "open". It used to be that you would hear lot
1. If you still have a voice on Monday morning, - then you didn't call CQ enough.... 2. If you didn't suffer a high cycle fatigue failure of your antenna cable rotator loop, - then you didn't turn yo
My preference would be to see the Limited-Multi limit the number of operators. Not the number of bands. So LM would only allow for 2 or 3 ops, but as many bands as they can muster. We don't want to d
So which is more detrimental to overall radio operating "fun"?: 1. Having a computer which is wholly contained within your station's premises doing signal decoding. or 2. Having the presence of stati
Very well said Kenneth. For me it really comes down to this: 1. "Is my contest QSO being made with means and equipment that is wholly contained within my station's/contest rule defined location?" 2.
In line below.. Check Mark. Check Mark. Check Mark. Check Mark. Check Mark. Check Mark. Check Mark. It never fails that when I try to take a quick food break I will hear a new station pop up just as
It would be like going fishing and dropping your hook into the water only after you know for sure that the fish is really there and is hungry (because the fish has told you so). Might just as well go
Yes, this *is* the fundamental difference between HF and VHF contesting. So shouldn't the skill of making yourself heard (directly) and the skill of finding the others (directly) not be a major focus
Chances are it is actually both. If it is designed like most all of the other narrow-ish roofing filter mixer scheme radios then some of the AGC is inside the DSP. And the remainder of the overall AG
I personally separate myself from all of those things once the contest period begins and remain so until it has ended. I decided it was better error on the side of caution regarding any interpretatio
I really do think that WSJT is a genuinely cool mode. However what has really kept me from really wanting to pursue it is the standard operating practice of real-time or near real-time Internet coord
They are *completely* different. 1. One will *only* work if the Internet (or some other community/3rd party network) is present (i.e. spotting networks). 2. The other will work completely fine withou
But 70 years ago you *did* use some kind of *technology*, be it a cat whisker diode detector, TRF, regenerative detector, or even some new fangled triode detector/super heterodyne. But what you didn'
In line bellow: There will be contests where 6M never opens, it those who can stick with it by being on 2M and up who will score well. The fact that 6M is such a wild card is precisely one of the thi
I too am a long time proponent of distance based scoring. Not so much for the notion of "leveling the playing field", whatever that is. But instead to build-in more incentive for all of the participa
In line below: 6-digit exchanges work well for this purpose because the granularity of the distance increments is fine enough. Something on the order of 3-4 miles vs. 50 or so when calculating based
I disagree, it *can* work. In your case it obviously didn't, and I have experienced the exact same thing you describe in the past. But by also piling onto 144.200 you (and the others sitting .200) li