Some good interesting changes....Thanks for the link Tom. I have not been following this. Not sure about the 1 point for rovers. I dont want to discourage any contacts. And the 2&3 point thing is a b
Sorry to hit the whole list, but can someone refresh my memory and tell me the time, day of week, and freq of the 2mtr and 432MHz weekly activity nights here in California? Tim - NU6S - CM87 ________
I have a 432MHz ICOM mast mount preamp I used to use with my IC471. Though my new IC7000 hears tons better than the IC471 alone, it does not hear as well as the 471 + preamp. The Icom preamp DC is su
Thanks for all the replies...I did not realize they were not RF switched....I think you just saved me a headache! 73 Tim - NU6S _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing l
I have read some pretty convincing articles that the validity of contacts made with the JT65 "deep search" mode are pretty iffy. Such as this article: http://www.sm2cew.com/jt65.html. But I have not
Sorry, I have one of each, and they are both great as far as I can tell. The Directive Systems came pretty much all ready to go just connect the boom halves.. The M2 needed quite a lot of time to ins
SSDS (Spy Satellite Debris Scatter) Wondering if blowing up something the size of a bus in the lower F layer might cause some pings? This Thursday maybe? Tim - NU6S __________________________________
Well the past week I have a new S9 noise level in the neighborhood. 6 mtrs is wide open right now and I can barely hear the loud ones. The noise is S6 on 2 mtrs. Should have known, this is the first
I have 2 different Microwave Modules transverters... a 28-222 and a 28-432 and they both have the same problem- Almost no output power. When I got the 28-222 it was working fine, but then the output
Weather has been so nice here that I finally got the 1296 antenna on the tower. Here's a pic with tower cranked down... http://timcoad.googlepages.com/NU6SAntennas.jpg Hope to hear some of you on. Ti
With about 3 active rovers total in the SF Bay Area, even if it affected 100% of them, we are not talking about a wide-spread impact. I have never understood why 97% of the comments on this reflector
...Learned new Win-Test logging program... Its easy like CT... but way cool...and runs great with windows... Not sure what Rover support it has, but it does seem to somewhat support it at first glanc
Here in the SF Bay area, I work more people on 223.5 FM than 1296 SSB... even though FM contacts are totally extinct on the other bands. 1296 is not worth the bang for the buck when compared to using
Any one heard of this before: //www.nhlr.org/ They rent fire lookouts to people for over night stays... Was wondering if anyone has rented a lookout from this group for a contest and how it worked ou
I am seriously considering scapping my 1296 gear. Just not worth the effort and it takes time away from bands that actually have people on them. A lot of the "regulars" on that band will not even get
In the SF Bay Area, 220 wins by a huge margin. My experience is a lot of people with 1296 gear do not get on for the contests and 220 contacts with the same station are much easier to make with less
Heard the KP4AO gang for about 1.5 hrs today starting 1800z here. CW 432.043.8 Using single 30 element yagi, elevated. Did not make a QSO however. This is the first EME signal I have ever heard! YAY!
Well I havent seen any plans from West Coast ops yet for the weekend, so I thought I would start. Will be home from my home QTH in Cupertino running "High Power" single op 6, 2, 220, 432,1296. Probab
Hmmm... Is that because you have to tell the software the full details for the QSO , before it can detect the full details of the QSO? Always seemed a bit odd to me... I rather have the rules allow