Old age is hell. It would be nice if I could read my own notes ... make the -98's a -96 and the -99's a -98 but you probably figured that out already. -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com ________
Put this in the search engine. It shows you the best route choice between those two corners along with the milage 29 -96 to 29 -98 -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com ____________________________
Yeah, google and mapquest both have poor travel time estimators. I don't know how they actually come up with the estimated time. -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com ______________________________
Like all of us I too dream of the ultimate (for me) rover rig. Here's some ideas I've put down. http://www.ka5cvh.com/vhf/vehicles.pdf -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com ________________________
People often times shut up when they hear a distant qso having problems working. That's when you go ... "lets go up 3 / 5 / 10" whatever. If others hear you and are wanting to work you they will foll
You will get no arguement from me for using the calling frequencies as well. A few of us have been pushing the use of 145.58 / 146.58 & 147.58 on two meters as FM contesting frequencies for SE Texas.
But this was a quad and not a Yagi ! Like others have commented, and I too have heard, (but never tested personally), that 3/2 wave center fed yagi's will perform poorly. -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http:/
That's because everyone knows ICOM stands for "I Can Only Monitor: :-) -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com Amateur radio ~is~ a contact sport http://ka5cvh.com/democ.htm _________________________
Thanks ... I luv it. A little good humor rivalry is good. -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com Amateur radio ~is~ a contact sport http://ka5cvh.com/democ.htm ______________________________________
1) I wouldn't mind seeing the probition on use 146.52 during contests be lifted. 2a) As for VHF FM, there isn't all that much activity on repeaters or simplex, 2b) courtesy I think of the widespread
I am of the mindset that too many in the hobby only think SSB or CW when you discuss contesting even when considering the V/UHF bands. For a few years now I have been pushing the idea of FM contestin
When the rules say 146.52 or its adjacent frequencies .... just what does adjacent mean? When discussing FM is that 5, 10, 15, 20 Hz? How about SSB is it 3, 4.5, 6 Hz? -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH Support t
FT-100 or (D) only because the display is larger. Otherwise I see them pretty much as a wash performance wise. I have a FT-100 that went back to Yaesu who did the ground mods and a few other tweaks u
Yeah, but their web-site says minimum order of 11. I've been looking for a 12volt generator like this http://www.backwoodssolar.com/Catalogpages2/gen2.htm#BACKWOODS%20BATTERY%20BOOSTER%20KIT -- Mike
While I haven't been all that active in the past few years I have his program and like it as well. Our club http://clarc.org uses the FD version each year and we really like it since it networks well
Oooops use http://www.clarc.org to push to the new site. -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.con
HMMMMM ... why would you want to log a dupe especially during FD? Now OTOH, have did you modifing the call sign from say N5FCC to N5FCC-1? I haven't tried just wondering if it would. -- Mike Urich, K
Ah, I finally find a URL I was looking for. http://theepicenter.com/tow02077.html I think that GM has a pretty commonly available ~ 110 amp alternator that has been in their bigger cars trucks and SU
That was me. Thanks, I'm glad to know that although I'm not in the market for another mobile rig at the moment. -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mai
I have 432 with 20 watts to point around from CM87 I can't speak for how much activity there is in the Bay Area. However 20 watts into 4 properly spaced C3i FO39-432's at a good height and proper fee