Managed to get into some of the tropo to the southwest. KN4SM, WF4R, and NG4C were loud from FM16. But worked no one in neighboring FN32! Some highlights were W4DEX from EM95, and clean sweep with W4
Had fun on the 432 Fall Sprint last night. Checked the WA1ZMS/B and W3CCX/B on 2m around 6:30pm, and both were up a few S units, so anticipated some enhancement to the SW. I would say the band was up
No kidding that was the best Conference I've ever seen! Real nice meeting everyone, TNX to the sponsors! -73, Ron WZ1V _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFco
Looking for 6M/2M WSJT/SSB/CW meteor or distant tropo skeds on 6-1296 for the upcoming January VHF Sweepstakes. Rover schedules welcome. Prefer wee hour to early morning for meteors. I'll be in the S
This could be a blessing he can work uninterrupted now! Emails and phones are the modern day curse to productivity! -73, GL to all in the contest, Ron WZ1V FN31mp -whose rotor broke in 70mph winds ye
Thinking over this past contest, I'm a bit perplexed about a few observed internet related practices: 1. Viewing Pingjockey while operating WSJT. I did. There were people making skeds during the cont
Jon: Well thank you, and it's nice to hear from you. I can tell you that single-ops (unassisted) are actively spotting themselves and making skeds on PJ. That don't seem right! I remember when PJ was
Nice job Steve! But whatta ya mean no diskjockeying?! You gotta have a discjockey playing Kool tunes while you tune! How else you gonna do the Conga between the Contacts? Seriously you got the right
Hi Bill: You maybe forgot to mention to mount them upside down to avoid bird damage. I've got a recent influx of turkey vultures here and they bent the crap out of my 903 loops (it was mounted loop s
This years' 34th Annual Eastern VHF-UHF Conference will be held on April 18, 19 & 20th, 2008. Once again it will be at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Enfield, CT. Reservations may be made at (860) 741-221
For more accurate coverage/path analysis I prefer Radio Mobile, and it's still freeware: http://www.cplus.org/rmw/english1.html p.s. - here's a giggle, I downloaded the DEM's for the entire northeast
hey Dave: On the news a few weeks ago they showed a video of someone(s) that made a 50' high snow-woman up in Maine somewhere. To give a perspective of size of her head, they wound up using dozens of
Lots of activity 1st 2 hours, best DX K8TVD EN91 & KG4HOT FM07. Nice to find W3BC/R in rare FN00 & FN01, and N2SLN in FN22. Missed a bunch of grids normally worked, seemed like band condx got worse a
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Condx were so poor I felt Connecticut must have been in the middle of a black RF hole and according to Hepburns' tropo map it was. Best DX south KG4HOT FM07, north VE2JWH FN35. Almost no western NY s
Tropo season finally made it's way to Connecticut last night. W3CCX/b, K2DZM, WA2LTM, K1PXE, WB2SIH were all 59 on 1296. What was cool was both K1PXE and WB2SIH were stronger pointed away from me to
Nova Scotia tropo night number 2 and it's still going. VE1CBC/B FN63 Yarmouth was 559 on 144.284. VE1WLC FN73lk was between 57 to 59 on 144.200. Keeping fingers crossed for the 432 Sprint tonight, I'
55 QSOs x 20 grids for 1,100 here. A real sleeper for the most part. The coastal duct we had the previous 2 nights moved away. I didn't work a single W4! TNX to VE3CRU/R and WW1M/R providing rare FN0