The 43 foot vertical is way too short for top band and it is too long for the higher bands. Top loading it with either several equally spaced wires coming back to the ground on a slope or as an inver
I am the half that is not a N1MM user. How does N1MM know if you are running or S&Ping? You certainly do not want to accidently spot every station you're working when you are running. John KK9A It's
Why would it have any effect? For example the CQ 160m contest starts at 2200 UTC. 2200 UTC will be the same darkness regardless of local daylight savings time. Not all parts of the US even switch to
A typed word is considered to be five characters long. Many callsigns also have five characters so we can call that a word. So you are already typing at 15 WPM that is a QSO rate of 900/hour. John KK
The unassisted challenge is great for those wishing to keep their spotting network turned off. The clear plaques are beautiful. Good luck to everyone this weekend. Thank you Dan and Axel for sponsori
Maybe they are valuable? Someone is selling by 1984 KK9A/V2A card on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/144587245014?hash=item21aa1245d6:g:2W4AAOSwB0Bim2t9 John KK9A I have several (3-4) file cabinets fi
I would guess that running a pileup your CW duty cycle would be closer to 25%. What is the antenna and why is the power level so questionable? FWIW, I have never had an issue setting up a Yagi, dipol
Very nice RTTY Roundup article Jeff, you definitely do your homework. It appears that FT4/FT8 will no longer be allowed in next year's contest, in my opinion this will be a great rule change! 73, Joh
Good information Bill. I have found that many sweepstakes stations have the habit of not working dupes so if you did not have solid copy during the previous QSO or even miscopied their callsign the f
I am not sure why a New Brunswick station would want to operate from the W9 black hole but perhaps the following ARRL article will answer your question: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/QST/This%20Mont
I use a Sony ICD-UX560. It is easy to use, very small which is great for contest-expeditions and it seems to work well. Sony probably now manufactures a newer but similar model. GL, John KK9A Hello,
Those are sad VHF CW totals but it is not just 6m that lacks Morse code activity. Earlier this year I operated 30m CW from PJ4 using a 2el beam on a mountain top. Conditions seemed good but I had to
There are many options for soldering on the tower. I have a small propane soldering iron that I sometimes use but I prefer and electric iron and often just bring one up the tower along with a long ex
What happens to the RBN when there is no QRZ listing for a particular callsign? Clearly OL7D is somewhere in the Czech Republic and not Antarctica. John KK9A Can someone tell me how to get in contact
A few people self spotted in Sweepstakes but it was extremely rare. The ARRL Sweepstakes rules state the following: Single Operator Unlimited (SOU) HCAT.2.1. Use of spotting assistance is permitted.
Ed, The Sweepstakes rules that I posted on November 20 (linked below) were not old rules. Soliciting contacts by non-amateur means is still prohibited! My post quoted Sweepstakes version 1.06 rules w
Well that is an interesting N1MM feature. During the times when I have operated assisted on CW or RTTY it was very nice to see where I am spotted by the RBN. When no spots immediately come in, either
Bob please post a summary of your direct responses regarding the FTDX10/FTDX101MP. At one time I was also owned a number of Yaesu FT1000MP Mark-Vs I am also wondering what transceiver contesters are
There are definitely a lot of highly talented ops in CQWW CW. I missed the annual N6MJ and KL9A super-human 11,000 QSO battle. V26K/AA3B's low power 9,000 QSO total is incredible. 2BSIQ has become a
Interesting that there is no RHR contact menu. Try W2RE or WW2DX https://beloud.us/ also offers remote ham radio. I have seen the BELOUD equipment in Bonaire but so far I have never operated remotely