Dear proposal committee, As someone who has only participated in two June contests grand-total after being invited to a friendly multi-op station (W0KVA - THANKS GUYS), and who would like to now buil
Ev Tupis wrote: Ken is right that WRTC "real-time" scoring is a much different situation I hope I haven't misstated something along the way. I used WRTC2002 simply as an example of "out of the box" t
Multi-op station W0KVA (Kilowatts, Volts, and Amps) will be operating 6m through 10G from DN70 this year. (With the likely hole of 222, the radio's unhappy... and depending on how lazy we get about a
So if I load JT-65 software I'll magically get contacts with places I can not reach via propagation? I don't think so. This post sounds more like sour grapes than well thought out. If the band's not
There's a controversy because people enjoy controversy. Turn on the nightly news, if you don't believe that one. If the so-called "problems" of today's contests were magically "fixed", someone here w
Tim Ertl (KE3HT) wrote: What is a captive rover? I gather this from discussion on this list: I schedule ahead of the contest with only two or three stations. My June logs (available on my web site) w
Ahh, the League is using this technique: http://images.ucomics.com/comics/nq/2005/nq050906.gif Nate WY0X _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@conte
[comparisons of various logging software snipped...] Rob, "Supports computer networking" and..."Recovers correctly from loss of computer networking"... Are definitely two different things. Has anyone
W0EEA always has a nice signal. I forgot to turn on AGC on my FT-857 in the Jeep and had a head scratcher moment wondering why all the big guns sounded horrible and the weak-signals sounded good. ;-)
Yes! I forgot him in the list! I worked him! Nate WY0X _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/list
Guilty as charged. You can beat me with a Wouff Hong if you like. We don't do it for long, unless you consider a couple of minutes maximum "long"... and if so, you need less coffee. :-) The key in yo
As others have said, I fall into the "leave it alone" camp too... but just to pick a nit... Your stated "object" above is NOT the stated object of the June VHF contest. The first line in the rules: 1
So assuming there's a bunch (or a few) new folks around who want to join in the contest fun this season... I figured I'd take a look at the official contest website to see what kind of information I
The opposite holds true also, if enough microwave activity is happening in an area, but not enough general V/U activity to keep the band busy (see my comments about the ragchewing... we took that dis
John, You talking fixed or rover? I think the choices for most of us would be quite different for each, for our "dream setup on a budget" since space and power might be at a premium in most rover's s
Bruce, Glad you were out there. I was going to participate as another rover last night until I got called into work. :-( Nate WY0X _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailin
They can just point their arrays down to find us Rovers... We move faster (in relative motion) than the moon, and present a better moving-target type of challenge! Nate WY0X/R <-- Going to have to ge
With HUGE thanks to Scott W0KU, Scott W0KVA, and John N0WBW of the W0KVA multi-op team, WY0X/R will be roving Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Kansas with the following bands: 50 MHz - 100W 2x W0KVA