Wow, passionate replies... Yeah, I drove 300km to start the contet in a rare grid (CO60) just to find that instead of the 60 elements I got 15-20' above the car I would've got away with 5. A 6m openi
Here is a personal story. Ten years ago (or is it 20?) I was all fired up about VHF contests. Get a 10W 2m radio, the home brew antenna, etc. together, drive up to the local scenic lookout, sleep in
I had logs on the web for years. http://www.islandserve.com/~ve7dxg/ There is one with grid circling in there and some where where I have over 15% uniques. Some even have five or six bad QSOs in them
If the other station will not transmit his or her six digit grid for whatever reason, you get no points for that QSO. No big deal. 73, Gabor, VE7DXG -- _______________________________________________
And if you refer to K3UHF/R, he worked us 31 times on just 4 bands while never got closer than 100 miles. Shows that there can be different strategies. 73, Gabor, VE7DXG/VA7ISL -- ___________________
A.k.a., the "Yellow E-Trex". I've had one for many years, still working fine. And indeed, it shows the six digit grid. 73, Gabor, VE7DXG -- _______________________________________________ VHFcontesti
Ah, the good old days. I remember when I was VE3GBA and worked 67 grids on one evening (including N7EIJ/1 in FN42) on 2m aurora. C'mon Mark, we don't do it because it is easy... 73, Gabor, VE7DXG, CN
I sent mine and a friend's in (last minute, as usual) last night, and got confirmation this morning, with the note that it was 11 hours too late. I think Sean will still accept it, but had to manuall
That's exactly what I'll be doing hopefully in time for the 2m Spring Sprint. I have 4-5 guys interested in becoming "captive rovers" (just kidding about the captive part). Now I just have to dust of
The VA7ISL contest group will once again head up to the "Perch" in CN88bv on Southern Vancouver Island. We'll be QRV on 6m through 2304 and on 10GHz. We'll have 100W and long Yagis on the low bands a
N7CFO collected this info a while ago: http://www.n7cfo.com/vhf/gps/~gps.htm 73, Gabor, VE7DXG _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com
Lynn has a good summary here: http://www.n7cfo.com/vhf/gps/~gps.htm 73, Gabor, VE7DXG, CN88eu _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com h
We ended up with 80 grids on 6m. The main goal was to get CN78 on the air, then we went to CN88 and CN79. 100W into 5el. I was neglecting the higher bands due to 6m being open. About 30,000 points or