I haven't seen the dates posted yet from ARRL, has anyone heard anything? Sean WA1TE _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lis
Thanks for the replies, everyone. Apparently I was just looking in the wrong place. 73, Sean _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com ht
Expectations are that the radio is going to be expensive, some European stores have it listed at 1500EUR. It looks pretty awesome, and I hope it sells well enough that more companies get back on that
Since we're always thinking of the next station improvement, I've been thinking about the best way to implement FM in the rover. We've found that it's worth carrying the gear. We don't get many conta
Hi Mark, That's basically how we operate (or are planning to, depending). FM mobiles on 2/1.25/70 with whips. We haven't been too good about leaving them on listening for contacts, but are going to t
Hi Rick, I've been meaning to grab a copy of the proceedings from that, if only for the talks on light contacts. I agree that 222 FM is the most productive of the FM bands normally, for a while K1SIG
Hi Josh, i think 222 is the odd-ball of the lower bands, and joins with 902 as you add the higher bands, in that it has a disproportionate number of FM stations. Multi-mode gear is hard to come by fo
Hi John, The FM king replies :) I don't think we'll end up with anything nearly the size of what you run, your beams are larger than the beams we're running on sideband. We have ready access to the l
Hi Pete, I agree that keeping it simple can really help, especially when roving and you have to factor in setup/teardown times when moving. If a couple more minutes can gain us more contacts, it may
I try to make a lot of noise about where I'll be. I'm not active in the local clubs, and not generally in the area anyway, but I try and get the news out to the regional weak signal and contesting gr
K1SIG has operating as Limited Rover in the previous 2 September contests. Time is a major factor, something we're fighting a lot. We do stop and shoot, and the set up/take down time is a bit long. W
Hi all, In the January contest we'll be doing a mobile setup in the rover. We'll be coming across FN22 diagonally on Sunday, basically up I-88. Is there anyone out there? The only stations in our log
The K1SIG rover is headed out for our first January trip. We're going to be running a different setup this time - loops, not beams, and lower power. We're hoping to make up for that by attempting 14
If you get wifi, roverstatus can do sms to aprs and the cluster. It uses Twitter and a server scrapes the feeds. http://www.roverstatus.info/ Sean WA1TE ______________________________________________
It's after 1am and I just got home, so a quick note with a full update later. 14 grids activated, nearly 900 miles of driving. A HUGE thank you to all of the stations that worked us, particularly the
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