Hello to everyone....for me, VHF contesting is all about the CONTACTS. You can either work them or you can't. The ARRL seems to be worried about the HOW of that contact rather than the contact itself
RRR....if we could just get the HFers out of the world of VHF, most things would work better. The VUAC made some very good changes to the VHF contest rules.....they just did not go far enough. All th
Hi George....I just spent two hours writing to another guy that was offended by my comments. I guess that I was too tart in my tone. However, on these reflectors, I can't afford the time to write two
Hello to all....I like the IC7000 for roving...it has several features that work nicely. 1. All my rover transverters are set up as "max of 10W on 28Mhz IF" for the input. We actually adjust them for
Hello to all.....we used the Elecraft transverters in our White Rover on 6M thru 432. They work very well and we have had no problems. We did this because DEMI is not makeing a 6M converter with 28Mh
Hello to all....I have run a SPLAT! plot for my station, assuming 144.2Mhz and an antenna height of 440ft.....I clearly don't understand what this plot is telling me. The circular pattern that I get
Hello to all....I was one of those that pushed the VUAC hard for the "Family Rule" to be specifically allowed in the rules. This because I have a father with 3 sons(ages like 9, 11, and 12) all of wh
WOW!!!! Maybe I need to refigure my score with this new method.......73's Marshall K5QE _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://
Hello to all....This reply has gotten long too, so it may fall into the LONG RANT category too....Sorry..... GENERAL OBSERVATIONS: I have been watching this thread for some time with intrest. The fir
Hello to everyone....I asked Kent, WA5VJB, how the 902 / 903 split ocurred. He told me that long ago, the East got a bunch of crystals that put them on 903, while the center of the country got a bunc
Hi Rich.....this is a serious topic and unfortunately has a lot of "IFs, ANDs, or BUTs". The most important thing to focus on is LOSS. It is LOSS that we are trying to avoid on VHF / UHF. The HF guys
Hello again to everyone.....Mike has found THE Times Microwave Chart that I was trying to send to everyone. That second link is the one. I could not find that chart on the web anymore, so 2 AttaBoys
Hello to all.....This "new" method appears to be the "old" method of rover scoring. I think that it is what is used in the CQ WW VHF Contest. Far superior to the current ARRL method. Right now, under
Hello to all....a REAL man does not read the instructions!!!!! What I say about software is that if you have to read the instructions for a piece of software, it is DEFECTIVE!!! This is somewhat "ton
Hello to all.....Steve may be onto something with these proposed rules. CONCERNING RULE 1: I think that I would allow 20 contacts for both the Limited Rover and Rover classes. I see no need to limit
Hello to all.....ROGER ROGER.......It may be a waste of web space to publish all the logs, but certainly the logs of the top 10 in every cagegory should be published. Others could be published at the
Hello to everyone.....K1IIG has posted that this is not a rover reflector and that we should stop talking about the rover rules. He is right....this is not a rover reflector, it is a VHF Contesting r
Hello to everyone interested in VHF contesting..... The January VHF contest is looming in the near future. We will be operating the K5QE contest station for the entire contest(assuming that we can co
Hi Mike, Greg and everyone else on the reflector...... Well guys, I seem to get into QST all OK. I have yet to win an ARRL VHF contest(I have two seconds in Jan), although I have won the UHF contest
Hello to everyone.....Concerning the Distance scoring thing: First, let me say that I neither oppose nor favor a distance measured contest. I have never operated in one and it might be fun. However,