Hi Steve, Dipoles are great on 6m. A few years ago, during a tremendous 6m opening between the midwest USA and the east coast, I worked K1TEO with a dipole strung across the ceiling of my second-floo
I'll keep trying if the club will have me back. Maybe repetition of the message with something new and unusual each time will get through. I remember two presentations at the club I was in in the lat
I put some photos of my 10-band QRP station in the contest soapbox for the January VHF SS. It's really not too bad to move (I hooked up all the wires of the station itself before I left home) but the
The contest is still thriving! I took over for Sean when he left this area. We had one back at the end of January. According to the logs sent in, there were 32 different callsigns in the logs. I post
I've been doing a similar setup. I usually don't take 6 meters in the January or September contests because it hasn't been worth the effort, but there's often enough activity from band openings in Ju
For Rovers running simplex, it's going to be tough. I suppose it depends on what the Rover is using for the APRS. Assuming he is using about 100 watts and a higher-gain beam for his weak-signal work
Dan's been pretty busy from what I understand. I'm not sure if his Rover is working now or not. He's probably on this reflector. Dan? 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ VHF
My guess is lots of people buying the newer HF rigs that also have 6 meters who are very unfamiliar with the band ... 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting maili
Well, it never opened here before, during or after the contest! 6 grids X 9 QSO's = 54 points from EN50vc. Maybe the Fall will be better? One can hope! 73, Zack W9SZ _________________________________
Must be nice ... <sigh> No openings in EN50 last night ... 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contestin
If people tune around for stations, that will inspire others to call CQ on frequencies other than the calling frequency in a contest. I have nothing against using 50.125. But in the Spring 50 MHz Spr
Very odd, I never heard him here at all. And I'm pretty close to him. I was very surprised - I did keep looking for him during the contest. I operated from home in the SOLP class this time. Had some
I haven't observed any here in Illinois. We had a decent tropo opening to the southeast on the Saturday evening of the June contest. And I think K8GP made their own propagation mode! :-) 73, Zack W9S
Last year some of us kicked around the idea of using a 60 meter frequency for liaison in the 10 GHz contest. I guess those of us who were rovers in the contest didn't want to be carrying around and s
In this area we've used both 144.200 and 144.260. If either frequency was busy we'd go up or down 10 kHz or so. 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing lis
Same here. My favorite hill is 1000 ft ASL. It's a 45 minute drive for me. Bald Knob in southern Illinois is just about at 1000 ft but it is much higher above average terrain than the hill closer to
Heehee - Little Steven JUST did a spot on his weekly radio show commemorating Lawnchair Larry. But Lawnchair Larry was back in 1982. I had kind of the same idea though - rig up a hot-air balloon with
There are actual photos of Lawnchair Larry and his balloons that can be found on internet. He did use 45 balloons. They're pretty easy to count in the photos. I can envision a Yagi suspended from a s
If you accidentally make a QSO without an antenna, it doesn't count? Then it becomes a matter of semantics because whatever radiated your RF IS acting as an antenna of some sort. Maybe you're not all
Yes, but the antenna is still connected to the transmitter by wires, even if the operator is elsewhere. 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcon