Don't know about local activity there, but most areas with FM 900 MHz simplex activity are using 927.5 MHz as a calling/simplex frequency, and most folks have that programmed in their radios. Sometim
Hi Jim, My rational answer to your question is a question: Restating your question: A. Is there sufficient reason for change? My question to you is: - Are there any specific operational problems curr
Pre-self-spotting. :-) Why then not allow fully-internet connected and digipeated APRS then? (Just stirring THAT pot.) At least that's ham radio driven, even if it eventually ends up on the Net. I st
Sounds like the mathematically most effective technique for that contest would be to be a rover and drive to the repeater sites. If they won't put out a decent signal, just take your station higher u
SAR training on the calling frequency? Who would do THAT? (See the slippery slope here of even HAVING a calling frequency?) It was neat to see myself in your propagation logs after the contest, Ev. W
Put a "good" gain vertical on the top of the yagi stack. :-) Nate WY0X _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.
The FT-857 has the ability to set the SSB and FM audio levels separately, which is a plus for multiple-ops without having audio that is way overdriven on FM, etc. Also the FT-857 does have a "transve
Those fit in a laptop computer for us Rovers? :-) Seriously - what options are out there that work off a USB audio interface? Is there one? Nate WY0X _______________________________________________ V
Completely missed requirements in the database design specification, would be the root-cause problem here. Sounds like time for Version 2. Nate _______________________________________________ VHFcont
I have a Linksys WRT54GS which is quiet, and a D-Link 802.11g to Ethernet bridge that smashes almost all of UHF with noise. Nate WY0X _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mai
I was thinking about wrapping it in steel -- otherwise known as a trash can. To make sure it'll never make noise on a ham band again. :-) Nate _______________________________________________ VHFconte
The thing that worries me most about sponsors is eventually you end up with McDonald's sponsoring the food at the Marathon, as if their restaurants served healthy food worthy of being served to marat
During years when 6m doesn't open out here in the wide-open land of Colorado, ALL of our so-called "unique callsign scores" which Ev recommends, will suck. We'll work the same 10-20 guys all weekend,
The key point in my request was that NON-ham participants wanted to "spectate". Similar to your proposals to make Ham Radio more like sporting contests, and real-time. (GRIN)... In fact, it was proba
Keep working on it -- the ham shack is never "done"! :-) Nate WY0X _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/
I interpreted the rules restricting no more than one transmitter active per band to mean that if the APRS is on VHF, the VHF SSB must be off, or vice-versa. Wouldn't you agree? Nate WY0X ____________
I was using a D-700, no TNC. My experience with this was that the QRM from the 144.X SSB radio would overload the D700 enough that it thought the channel was CLEAR, not busy, and it would transmit. (
Kinda a "tongue-in-cheek" response but... If there's a maximum height, I'd better go pull the club's VHF and UHF repeaters that are at 11,440' MSL (which averages 'bout 6000 HAAT around here) down an
Hello everyone, Many of you have probably started to receive my QSL cards and thank you letter to everyone I worked in the June 2006 ARRL VHF Contest. A couple of astute hams here in Colorado noticed
Thanks for letting us all know this was posted. I was far sloppier than I thought I was. Since we're sitting here with close to 3 feet of snow on the ground and blizzard conditions -- it's a good tim