1. So that monster pileup starts right away, clobbers the rare one, scares him off and nobody else works him. 2. That the competition gets tangled in never ending pileup, wastes time, loses points.
Howdy TopBanders! Top Band records have been updated with recent CQ WPX SSB 2006 results. http://members.aol.com/k3bu/WPXRecords.htm Congrats to new record holders: LP N.America VE3MGY QRP World LY5A
Howdy Contesters! Tesla radioclub, N2EE/NT1E restoration project of the old WOO AT&T transmitting site made the local NJ newspaper the "Ocean County Observer" and received positive response from the
Higher frequencies, high tones propagate more in line and attenuate faster. Low frequencies, bass, tend go "flow" around the corners and attenuate slower. Looks like your situation is creating filter
I have been using "el-cheapo" version of this by using two radios, two antennas and feeding it into headphones and "my comparator" - my own scrambling brains. Even if not scientifically perfectly ba
Here is what I can see through my bloory vision, based on wasaaap to day: SDRs will obsolete our today's junk radios, just like superhet did to sparkies. There will be SK Honor Roll, listing dead ha
Howdy Top Band aficionados, I have updated and moved the Top Band Records to new address http://www.k3bu.us/topband_records.htm please make a note and store it in your book. Also added is a new secti
Methink, it's like, why runners outrun runners on the crutches. You might get 10% more mults, but lose 20% by wasting your time fighting the never ending pileups or finding that spotted is not there
Wonder.... one gets ZERO points for working his own HUGE country (JA, W, UAs...) Some "THRILL" to spend 48 hours in the World Biggest Baddest CQ WW Contest only to be discriminated against working y
Ham Radio Contesting is a technical sport involving technology and operators. We graduated from callsign meaning operator and HIS station to likes of NT1E operated by K3BU from W8LRL. We should stri
Howdy contesters! N2EE/NT1E Contest Club needs help with transportation of Big Bertha tower and some antennas from the north of DC area to mid NJ. It should be either tractor trailer with 40 - 50 ft
Wow! Sure must be the worlds biggest antenna. 150 m high, with "little" one 90 m high and 900 m long. No wonder they wer wiping out the bands! Interesting story and how Chornobyl disaster put an end
Looks like there were three sites, Chernigov, Nikolaev and Komsomolsk na Amure (UA0). Remember handling traffic with UB5 hams and supplying media with info about Chornobyl, before afficials admitted
Things happen: One good operator can be better than a committee of half good operators. Well equipped station can beat packet assistance by half equipped spotters. In a recent multi operation one par
Monoband contests are very reasonable to combine with "attache case" expeditioning, vacation and fun. Example my C6AYB operation in 160m CQ Contest. We "needed" vacation somewhere warm, almost last m
Because reflector administrators are supressing/confiscating replies/postings. They confiscated three of mine. WHY!!!??? Yuri K3BU _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
Just picture wire connecting bases of all verticals, connected at the phasing box. The best demonstration of the effect is the 3 vertical array fed by Stack-Match phasing unit, advertised for this p
It has to do with configuration of 3 vertical array a StackMatch, using disconnected element as a parasitic, coax line turning that element into reflector, but connected shields messing up the curre
"StackMatch for Verticals User's Guide Thank you for your purchase of a WX0B StackMatch. Users Guide This WX0B StackMatch can be used for stacking two or three monoband verticals. It will give the u