If you happen to have an iPhone... especially the iPhone 3G with a real GPS receiver in it... The app called "Maidenhead" was written by a ham's son, and costs $1. :-) -- Nate Duehr nate@natetech.com
Sure sounds like very nice technical data start to an antenna comparison article for VHF/UHF yagis for QST, Chet... Nate WY0X -- Nate Duehr nate@natetech.com _________________________________________
Alex, If you've got a hitch on the vehicle, my "mast" made out of a discarded hitch bike rack, some typical tower clamps for antenna masts, and a strong 12' pipe... with a square loop at 6' and anoth
What did that rule change accomplish, Sean? When does it take effect? Nate WY0X -- Nate Duehr nate@natetech.com _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontestin
-- RULE WORDING: Couldn't the rule have been just as effective by saying: "At least three bands submitted by a Limited Rover must be 432 MHz or lower. The fourth band may be any band allowed in the c
To be ultra-clear here.. You added "grid-circling" to your reply. This rule change has nothing to do with that, nor does it even address it. Any rover can still grid- circle their little hearts out u
Take it easy Steve, in that regard they already implemented 100 rover-to-rover contacts maximum during the first version of the contest rules this year. It's in there. It completely disregards the pu
Yep. The winners calculate strategies that maximize points. It's an operating contest, not a popularity contest, right? Why's it such a surprise and such a big culture shock (to the point of constant
Or drive out here to Colorado for my joking, but half-serious "meet-up" for Rovers in a team effort. You could couple it with a nice visit to Rocky Mtn National Park or something for a few days prior
Apparently the groups doing it are having fun, or they'd have fallen apart by now. If there were a team rover "pack" wandering Arizona close enough to you to work multiple bands with them, and they w
I could care less if someone wants to circle... If they suddenly decide to drive out of California into the Rocky Mtn Region, the region's usual individual rovers would HAVE to band together and figh
Especially if 6m and 2m E's open up to either coast. This is the ONLY way Colorado gets into the serious rankings, but it's happened often enough lately during June contest, that it's worth hunting f
Did that poll include people who'd happily become rovers who aren't now if they got a cool team shirt, and got to drive in formation across two or three states like the professional driving team in t
I agree. Let's see the same happen for Limited Multi-Op. :-) What's "unethical" about it? I can find no Commandment in the Biblical sense that applies. "Unethical" usually also implies "immoral", and
Did anyone else notice, as I did, that those "evil" people in those photos look like they're having fun? Goodness... now I see Frank's point. They shouldn't be allowed to do THAT! LOL! Actually, Carr
Duffey, this may be a "regional" thing... but looking back at my 2006 and 2007 logs, I have FAR more contacts on 1.2 GHz around here than on 222. The fixed stations have 1296 here instead of 222. It
W1AW/0 will also be on air as a special event this weekend from the Colorado HamCon ARRL Rocky Mountain Regional Convention, and a number of us "VHF'ers" are making sure there is a 50 MHz and UP stat
That should have read "Denver to Colorado Springs"... oops, wrong direction. South, not north! :-) If anyone can find a rover from Wyoming... let me know. Only a few of us go up there, and only long
Yup. Lots of dead bugs on the antennas after a weekend of driving back-roads in farm country, but no damage to the antennas. Tighten them up good, and prep for the worst... have the wrenches necessar
Actually, you need to read three documents to cover all the rules for June VHF: http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/rules-all.html http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2009/june-vhf.html http://