WARNING! LONG-WINDED RANTING FOLLOWS! WARNING! Rovers expend a lot of resources to put "relatively rare" grids on the air for everyone to enjoy. The enjoyment we get is to work as many stations as we
This June's contest provided (at least on Sunday in this area) an outstanding example of what can happen when 6m is good. Practically the only stations to be heard on 2m were multi-ops. Everyone else
Hello Joe, Thanks for the warning-hi, and thanks for your comments, which I found very interesting. Here's my take as a fixed station. I am relatively new to vhf contesting (but I have done HF contes
Heya Joe .. some responses to selected portions of your rant ;) We've been starting in a relatively rare grid (FM26) well south of where the east coast action is centered, and it's very tough to attr
Joe - You wrote, in part: - Oh wait -- I think I'm starting to get it now... Nobody told them I'm there or that they might have to listen carefully to dig out my piddly, weak, little signal... Allowi
Do you call the rover on their hangout frequency? How long have you listened on their freq? Due to a variety of excuses, one of my limitations is electrical power, so I don't put out a continuous CQ
Interesting. Its good to see that others experience a lot of the same things I have. Being new at this, I sometimes wonder if its just me. I'm going to ramble on a bit myself and share some things I'
I agree with most of what has been said about the subject of this thread... And will Add: As an "experiment" one CQ WW VHF contest, I borrowed an APRS tracker and installed it in the rover... It didn
Hello Joe, I noted the same problem in discussions with Fred, N1DPM about maximizing our contest scores. Fred was behind the NC1I MM in the 90s. They had great results from Western MA as a limited mu
While the VUAC encourages everyone to contact us about VHF/UHF/Microwave contest related issues, in this particular case (Rover APRS and single ops) there is no good to be served by contacting your V
Glen, kc0iyt/r asked: "Do you call the rover on their hangout frequency? How long have you listened on their freq?" -- Gee, I never thought about calling a rover on his hangout freq, I've just listen
Thanks fellas for a couple of great ideas... Rover "window". Good thinking. That way, people in the know, know to tune there looking for weak rover signals when they've worked the rest of the band dr
2. I should have done a LOT of calling on 6 meters this June. I did a lot of S&P and caught a lot of grids, but for some reason, I didn't select a frequency and just call for any length of time. Look
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
This is how it works out here in the wide open West too. We usually go up, not down, but other than that... 144.200 is the place to be when you hit a new grid square as a rover around here. And more
Marshall - Good summary of rover techniques for he underpopulated. It gets done pretty much the same way here. I operate in the stop and shoot mode, but am getting ready to run and gun. One thing tha
Thank you one and all! Wow! Thanks so much for the helpful info, and supportive comments. You have encouraged me to continue! If I step back and look at my results, I guess that I'm actually doing be