Well, I'm ready to make the jump to beverages for the low bands. Unfortunately, my TS-850's don't have a receive antenna connector. I'm aware of the various mods to allow the 850 to be used with a se
WPX SSB was the inaugural run of N6NF's new station with all the antennas up and working. If you heard KT6RU and can provide any feedback on how I sounded (not my voice of course, but rather signal s
With apologies in advance to any that may be offended by my profanity. Help Me Brothers, for I am sorely tempted. I come to you, my brothers, in my hour of need. Lend me your support, that I may be s
For the last few weeks, I have been working on a project to design and build a 1500 watt solid state HF amplifier. The impetus for this project is the need, in a modern SO2R contest station, for some
Does anyone have an audio recording of part or all of an SSB Sprint that they would share with me? I'm going to try my first one this Saturday, and I'd love to hear more than what is on the Sprint Su
I posted a recording of the recent phone Sprint at http://www.k6if.com . The recording is indexed by hour, so if you want to hear what you sounded like in Northern California, get the time(s) of our
I've been thinking hard about the new SteppIR 4 element yagi for my station in Boonville. I did a bit of quick analysis of the antenna, and wrote it up on my website. If you have any interest, go to
With the flux around 115 and conditions quiet, 10 meters will likely be open for a couple of hours at the start of the contest. Last year, with similar conditions, the band was open from W6 to much o
With a bit of luck, I will install a new 40 meter antenna tomorrow that is intended to improve my signal up and down the west coast. My station is located about 150 miles north of San Francisco, and
Guys, while it is still fresh in your mind, I'd love to take advantage of this unique opportunity to hear how the various California stations compared this weekend in signal strength on the various b
In a fit of idiocy, I operated SS with my computer's clock off by one hour. Now my log has all the times wrong. I know I'm not the first person to do this, but I couldn't find the thread in the archi
Writelog can do this, it turns out, with three clicks of the mouse. See http://www.k9jy.com/Post-contest/log_edit.htm for details. Thanks to all for the suggestions, sorry for burning the bandwidth f
Welcome! Remember, without guys like you, the big guns have no fun! I'd suggest replacing the Mosely (pre-computer design and traps, if I remember correctly) with either a Force 12 C-3 type (C-3E or
Guys, Some common logger, I think either CT or NA, outputs 3 breakdowns. The first is a standard QSOs/Mults by hour. The second is a time per band per hour (I think). The third is "kilo-points per ho
Some of you may recall that back in 2000, I wrote a serialized account of my (as it turned out, successful) effort to make the top ten SSB only in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest. I got quite a bit of posi
In 2002, I entered the WPX SSB contest in a focused way for the first time. My experience convinced me that WPX is one of the best contests around - high rate, lots of great DX, and 12 hours of sleep
In 2002, I entered the WPX SSB contest in a focused way for the first time. My experience convinced me that WPX is one of the best contests around - high rate, lots of great DX, and 12 hours of sleep
The easiest way is to buy yourself a copy of the ARRL Antenna Book, and install the YT software that comes with it. YT includes a pre-calculated set of tables that show the likely arrival angles from
After I sent this to Gary, I thought others might find it entertaining. I love the thread - what was your wildest idea? I once built a 3 element extended zepp yagi for 15 meters out of wire and PCV p