Absolutely! I have a group of local friends that enjoy finding me in different grids, but are "anti-contesters"..... Even though some of them have SSB capabilities, we often make our contacts on FM s
How about a mult for every law enforcement official that checks you out? Or a point for every curious non-ham with questions? A new mult if 6 meters is open during the visit... A new mult for each bl
Yes, my FT897D acts up when the voltage drops below about 12.5 volts. My Icom 746 is even worse. It starts dropping power below 13 volts. By 12 volts, I down from 100 watts out to around 25 ~ 30 watt
Hi Rick! I thought they had gone out of business, but by the website, they still seem to be around. This would be a good alternative to the accuvolt. Although it may not carry enough current for the
John, I'm not aware of any other commercial versions of the Moxon, although they are pretty simple to make. I used to run a homebrew Moxon for 6m made from 1/2" copper water pipe. It worked real well
Well it looks like I'm still "go" for the contest this weekend. From the looks of the forecast I will likely get wet, but at least it should keep the temperature down a bit. I'm not planning a big tr
The contest started well here, but ended early unfortunately. I started the day Saturday in the northern edge of EM77dx, at the Louisville Hamfest. I just moved a few months ago, so I done the tail-g
Hi John, It's sad, but it happens. It happened to me in both of the grids I made it to this past contest, with the same station. He was an easy contact on 2m, but when I asked for other bands he told
Hi Steve, I just wanted to add that I agree with Ev, both 1 and 2 are legal and would mean you now have a two operator Rover station. The only impact the new changes would make in your case, in my op
Hi Steve, and the Group, You have received a lot of great advice. It's always nice to see this sort of stuff on the reflectors. Keep in mind for every person that asks a question, there are probably
So how bad do you think the APRS signal is going to be for the 2m SSB station? If I put a 50 watt FM transmission into a vertical separated maybe 10 feet from my horizontal yagi; At best I can see co
Hi Nate, In the last contest, I used my daughter's MP3 player in voice recorder mode. It took a bit of trial and error to get the distance from the speaker suitable, but it did work pretty well. I do
I should add you have to make a habit of speaking the date, time, and frequency of each contact when logging this way.:-) 73 Dan -- K9ZF /R no budget Rover **QRP-l #1269 Check out the Rover Resource
It's legal, but difficult due to interference from the 2nd op. Good luck, 73 Dan -- K9ZF /R no budget Rover **QRP-l #1269 Check out the Rover Resource Page at: <http://www.qsl.net/n9rla> List Adminis
Group, Along with debating rules changes, Ive been making some major strides in rebuilding the K9ZF /Rover station. 6 meters Worked pretty well the last time out. I am running 100 watts from my FT897
I agree with Tom. I find the drop out on SSB to be very annoying, so I prefer hard keying. However, RF sensed keying will work if needed. 73 Dan -- K9ZF /R no budget Rover **QRP-l #1269 Check out the
Seems to me it would be a pretty simple thing for someone at the contest branch to record ping jockey, or other dx lists, for the weekend. And then cross check against submitted contest logs to look
I would like to hear some comments from folks who actually used APRS in the contest. Were many stations using it? Did you find it helpful? Would more APRS active stations make it more useful? Will yo
Hi Steve, Sounds like you will be getting very close to the setup I run. I have a commercial made push up mast I found at Dayton a few years ago. It's 20', or 4 five foot sections. Plus I usually add
No guys here. The commercial push up mast I use [sorry, I can't remember a brand name] is made of an aluminum profile that is kind of octagonal in shape, with spring clips that pop out to hold each s