I don't know much about the HamIM, but as a single operator you'd have to be careful not to have more than one signal on the air at a time, like one on 6 and the other on 2M. 73 Chet, N8RA --Original
I thought this preamp was working OK for a few months, but it is not now. When it is out of its die-cast box, it seems to hear and tune up just fine. But when I put it back into its box, it still out
Thank you for the many suggestions offered for my problem. On the most-likely list were spurious oscillations, a bad solder connection or a cracked chip cap. So I hauled the panel back onto the workb
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
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
Gee, I belong to the Yankee Clipper Contest Club here in New England, whose roster include many of the big HF leaguers, and the response is the samegreat bunch of folks always willing to help with ju
ARRL-SECTION: CT CALLSIGN: N8RA CONTEST: ARRL-UHF-AUG CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW MIXED Band Mode QSOs Pts Grd 420 CW 2 6 1 420 USB 1 3 0 Total Both 3 9 1 Score: 9 I cannot tell you great tales of wo
FWIW- I am no expert: How much gain did the preamps have? There is some discussion in listening for weak signals to try and keep the front end gain such that the ambient noise is not higher than the
Wow, what fun! Local operator KD1EU accepted an invitation to come and operate the station in the rookie class. Don had expressed an interest in weak signal 2M after helping me put up my antenna a ye
Hi Bob. Send it to ottf@wbia.net 73 Chet N8RA can SOME ONE E-MAIL ME THE 2M E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR THE LOG? TNX 73 Bob K8TQK em89je Bainbridge, Ohio 45612 qrv 50m-10gigs... -- No virus found in this outg
The event was a bust here. I also felt that Saturday night was not a good time for it. Worked 10 stations in my first hour- and 8 of those were different gridsand all were familiar calls. Then only h
Michael, Basically, in N1MM, right click with your mouse in a bandmap window and select "set transceiver offset freq" and fill in a line for your transceiver. Then in the entry window, type a VHF fre
This is sad to hear. I had lost contact with Tom after I moved to CT. I heard a rumor he had moved to E. Pa somewhere and expected he would pop up on 6 or 2M sometime. I do not remember the first tim
Here's the Wikipedia definition. I do not know if the author is from Philly or Chicago. Grid circling Grid circling is a highly-coordinated operation of two or more rover stations. Two or more rover
I see open logs as a mixed bag. On the plus side, seeing other?s log details can have these benefits: It has the possibility of reducing cheating. But all logs would have to be made open for this to
OK- FWIW I looked at this for the June contest (unable to participate in Sept). I was single op low power, with only 6 and 2M. Removing the rovers from my log, I would have lost 1 grid out of 77 on 6
What are folks using for getting a beam heading to another station when taking them "through the bands". I'd like to find a dedicated app that can run in its own window in the background, and not int
FWIW- as a newbie, I've noted on my cheat sheet that rovers sometimes use 50.185 on 6M 144.240 on 2M and 144.260 for the coordination frequency for UHF contests. I'm all ears for other thoughts. Chet
Hi Jim, Let me give you my perspective on how the band is "packed" here in Connecticut, where I believe I am in an above average 2M location, The WSJT calling freq is 144.140, and usually no CW or SS