I have used a hb two element reflector beam as my rovering antenna for several years. This was after an attempt to build a two element director beam. The main advantage of a two element reflector bea
(snip, snip) them professionalism and But Ev, isn't this the whole point of contention in this discussion? IE if people believed the "captive" rovers wanted to work other stations this discussion wou
Being new to the list, could someone please recap this 222 FM contesting discussion. I am looking for some kind of 222 rig for my rovering activities. Since there are so few 222 SSB rigs I have been
Looks like they have a web site: www.antennaworks.com Don't see anything but a home page however. There is a email address: rich@antennaworks.com 73 Tom KE6FI
Here is the answer from ARRL. Mark: A rover may not have two signals on any one band at the same time. There is nothing in the rules that prohibits a rover from having simultaneous operations on seve
I would take a look at using a GI-7B for such an amplifier. It's a triode and can be used in grounded grid thus simplifing the power supply requirements. Drive requirements are about 25 watts for aro
If you are interested in responding to this survey without printing it out and then resorting to US mail, I have converted the pdf form to a simple ASCII file. You can thus enter your responses with
I'm a bit surprised there hasn't been any mention of W3ZZ's article regarding VHF contesting that appeared in April QST. Here are my thoughts. First thanks to Gene and ARRL for showing an interest in
(bunch of stuff deleted) with useful > to I took a look at the number of QSOs by the top stations during the 1997-2002 June contest. It seems like the number of QSO these stations made would give som
the Here is the 6M data for the same period: 97-4022, 98-7758, 99-4129, 00-6853, 01-4955, 02-4699 I suspect these totals are more a result of band conditions than an indication of underlying activit
If anyone in the Northern CA area is going to participate in tonight's 222 Sprint. I'll be on 223.5 from the San Jose area at the top of each hour. I'll also have the 2M rig on at 144.200. 73 Tom KE6
I believe Ev was proposing we search the logs of the top 10 stations for people who did not submit logs. We would then contact those stations to determine why they did not submit logs. (Did I get tha
I received a reply from one of the stations that I worked during the Jan contest who did not submit a log. He listed the problems he had with the robot (during a previous submittal) and the removal o
*logging*, it Anyone have a solution for this problem? As a rover I tried using an old portable PC and a logging program. However the glare from the sum made it impossible to read the screen. So I en
I won't be able to make more than a token effort as we have visitors for the weekend. I'll try and get on at the top of each hour and hand out a few contact from the south SF Bay area, CM97ag. 73 Tom
Satellite However this seems like an interesting idea to pick up a multiplier of so during a contest. How about we somehow interface a mike and speaker (or even a telephone) to the base unit. If we c
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