As a side bonus, you can also get ideas of where to schlep your radios up a mountain and activate for some SOTA points. We always need more people doing activations. Sean WA1TE ______________________
To second this, we've used one of the Ukrainian 222 transverters for the last couple of contests and it has worked fine. It isn't super precise on output frequency, but it is very consistent on the a
At K1SIG we regularly check in on 2m and 70cm FM, usually on the call frequency. We run horizontal beams, so we'd be cross-pol but it usually works enough for new contacts. We keep planning on having
As the September VHF contest grows ever nearer, we're starting to plan our rove. We'd love to find a spot near I-395 in CT or in the NW corner of RI in FN41. Most of the places we find are pretty pop
Thanks Michael, I'll poke around the map in that area to see what I can see. Any ideas help, even if it just gets us looking in the right direction Sean WA1TE ________________________________________
Hi Rick, That's what we keep hearing about FN51. It's very tempting since it's a multiplier that most people are going to want, but the issue is getting the word out that we're there. On a scouting m
Hi all, I found a radar gun module on ebay with a 24GHz gunnplexer in it. I'd love to get some working 24GHz gear for next year. Does anyone have a favorite tutorial on how to do this? I've seen a fe
Thanks Scott. Looking at the book, it may be simpler than I was thinking. I was trying to figure out how an IF for the TX frequency worked, when it seems like you just use a mic and a modulator circu
K1SIG is heading out as Limited Rover again this weekend. We'll be active on the lower 4 bands, beams while parked but we also hope to have loops up and running for at least 6 and 2 while on the move
Hello, WA1TE and KG6CIH are going to be in your vicinity for at least Saturday. It might be a little rough getting you guys on Sunday, but we'd love to make what contacts we can. Saturday - Mount Equ
I'll bite. VHF contests have a small number of people operating. It's easy to slap a wire into a tree and get on HF, getting useful antennas in a useful place for VHF is harder despite of the smaller
Hi Nick, It really was chilly Saturday night, at our FN32 stop it got down to about 10*C. I tried listening for your a couple times, but it was pretty chaotic getting set up at both of our Saturday s
Hi Nick, Make sure you advertise well. Not a whole lot of New England stations aim their beams to the Northeast during the contests, so it'll be hard to grab random contacts. Sunday is better for thi
We use some thicker EMT, it's usually made of steel. We're looking at tilt over, drive over mast holders and going with 2 lengths, the masts we're using are only 10' lengths so it doesn't get us up a
Hi John, That's some rover you have! We're okay with EMT in our setup. Right now we're just using 10' sections, and I think they are at least 2" in diameter. With 2 smaller beams than you're running,
We use 2 100Ah deep cycle agm batteries in parallel. It handles an IC746 @ 100W on 2m and an IC7000 @ 100W on 6m both transmitting at the same time , with the current draw of the other radios we have
A question about batteries in series - how do you prevent fireworks when you connect them? With hundreds of Ah of battery, it can get a little scary when doing things that can make sparks, especially
6346 claimed score, 37 mults. 137 QSOs (46 6m, 56 2m, 16 1.25m, 19 70cm). Saturday was rough, it was hard to dig up contacts. We had fewer multipliers than last year, but managed to make up for it a
Hi Steve, I am of the opinion that splitting the VHF and up contests into mode specific contests will be at the detriment of all. There just simply is not enough activity. If activity continues to gr
The problem with penalizing digital mode contacts is that it will hurt the newer generation of hams the most, and those are the people we want to be encouraging to get on the air during these contest