Here's a little blurb on our first rove: http://www.irrexpr.com/2016/09/surviving-our-first-vhf-contest-rove.html It went really well, despite getting rained out on Sunday. We're already looking for
Hi everybody, I see that WSJT has an "ISCAT" mode for ionosphere scatter. I can't find much about how to operate in this mode, or even much about ionosphere scatter in general. I gather that it's a d
WSJT has ISCAT and JT6M that can be used on the mode. It doesn't look like they are in WSJT-X yet. I'm assuming with sufficient power and gain the answer is "whatever mode you want." I'll have to rea
Are you guys running your beams horizontal or vertical for FM only? The penalty for cross polarization is pretty nasty, but I guess most of the sideband stations are running higher power and big enou
John, That's a pretty good idea. I was trying to think what I would tell a new contester with only FM gear. As a primarily sideband station we run all h-pol, and it doesn't make sense to change that
We use 10' sections of EMT pipe on drive over mounts. It's not a super tall antenna, but we can get the car on top of a mountain and it is plenty high enough. I don't know how it would hold up in ser
Tim, Your point about turning the rover is a good one, as powered rotators are a pain in a rover. The problem is many sites, at least in New England, are on narrow roads or otherwise not suited to tu
Hi all, Does anyone know of a decent 2m bandpass filter that can be left inline on transmit with 100W? I see them for 6m and below, but not 2m. I've found this: http://www.antennas-amplifiers.com/2m-
Thanks for all of the suggestions so far, a lot of ideas to read through. I have two purposes for the filter. I work some of the vhf+ contests with a friend as a multi op station. We've run into some
How hard is it to tune stub filters? What equipment do you need? Sean WA1TE _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contes
Color me also interested. My big hangup at the moment is power. I don't have 110VAC in the rover and even with an inverter, the laptop power draw and the 100% duty cycle of these modes is going to su
Hi Don, We've considered it. We're currently using a pair of 100AH SLABs for power, charged from the car while we're driving. I can fit a fair bit of stuff into the car, but it starts to get silly wh
Thanks for the pointers, everyone. To avoid hijacking Mark's thread further, I'm also interested in how to send Rover in wsjt-x Sean _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mail
Hey All, What do we put for Mode in a cabrillo file when you've made an MSK144 contact? The only options in the QSO standard seem to be CW, PH, FM or RY. Thanks! Sean WA1TE __________________________
Sounds like there is no real answer, with some people doing PH or RY As long as there is no official whatever for it, I guess we can use whatever makes sense. Probably RY, though PH is reasonable as
It most certainly does help, thanks. Exactly what I was looking for. Sean WA1TE _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.co
Is bh4.net a real thing? It sent me to a massive spam page. Sean WA1TE _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.
Happens to the best of us, or so I'm told. I'm far from the best. Sean WA1TE _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.conte
I've seen this in the past. The one flaw is that you can't trivially predict the next grid over. The maidenhead system is much better for that. Sean WA1TE ____________________________________________
Paul, Glad you got everything situated and aren't pulling out of the game. I won't see you on the air this sprint (working the Marathon) but hopefully another day! Sean WA1TE ________________________