when I was in Guam the corrosion rate on any metal in contact with the ground, water or any other metal was so high that I had to resort to connecting sacrificial anodes to just about everything. Th
Based on numerous experiences, my evaluation of a G5RV antenna is that it radiates equally poorly on all bands in all directions. A 30 foot tall piece of downspout sitting on a pop bottle with a se
This morning 3D2KJ was booming in at least 10 Db over S-9 so I decided to try to work him QRP I have tried several other days but not gotten through I first tried QRPP at 850 milliwatts but got n
I would have sworn that putting the beverages 8 feet off the ground would be enough Deer antelope cattle and jackrabbits are no problem but I did not count on the oryx their horns extend over 8 fe
And it's why many W6/W7 operators don't bother How true so often they are transmitting on antennas that are sending loud signals out this way but listening on directional antennas that don't pick u
The SP is the only contest where you can feel a real accomplishment running QRP There is an immediate gratification to making a new longest distance contact Quite frankly I have gotten burnt out
There has been practically no one on 160 the last few mornings but the reflector has so mech activity that there are several updates every hour I guess everyone decided to just talk on the reflector
This morning the QSB was really extreme it sounded like meteor scatter does on 10 meters signals were well over S9 one second and then just dissappeared into the noise within a second or two only t
Dang it! You blew the top off one of the most closely guarded secrets of the top bands contesting community Now every Tom Dick and Harry can get extreme performance out of their equipment and the
Just as TX3A came back to me someone put a 30 over 9 carrier on his frequency and kept it on for nearly a solid minute I have never understood the mentality of people who tune up on the DX stations
This information was sent to me in response to my providing the link to the gold plated power outlet on another reflector How could I have gotten by for all these years without this device? Bybee
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There is a direct correlation between the quality of operating and the amount of "policing" and deliberate QRMing on a DX station Some of the most recent DXpeditions have clearly demonstrated this
This subject seems to be a perennial issue that comes up around the beginning of the contest season For me the RS(T) report, while meaningless in itself, acts a convenient placeholder in giving and
It would be nice if more DXpeditions would schedule some 160 SSB Several recent operations have simply ruled it out entirely Admittedly there is not a potential for lots of QSOs but some of us would
Here is a classic paper on the rhombic antenna which is the basic parallellogram antenna http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/EM/foster_pire_25_1327_37.pdf _______________________________
It would be interesting to do a single band 160 meter Sweepstakes contest during the regular CW Sweepstakes All rules are the same just only contacts on 160 count If anyone wants to try it just p