You can view it at: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11895085/new-vhf-contest-rules-the-movie-byn8ra?listid=22848414 Composed mainly of chatter heard here. It's been a long winter. 73 Chet, N8RA _____
I was looking forward to this sprint, since I was unable to operate the 2M one. The station was connected for 432 in the morning. Conditions seemed poor since I could only barely hear the W3CCX beaco
Band Mode QSOs Pts Grd 50 USB 4 4 4 Total 4 4 4 Score: 16 (wow!) I had made some changes to my 6M antenna system this fall; I now had a high yagi and lower loss in the feedlines. I was really looking
Emory, That's got to be frustrating! I have a couple of those antennas and got them working OK, so I wonder what's up with yours. Some thoughts in no particular order: What else could be going on? Co
Thanks to W1QK for reminding me yesterday that these will soon be upon us: http://sites.google.com/site/springvhfupsprints/2012-announcement-rules Chet, N8RA _________________________________________
59 QSOs for 10,124 points. Having been unable to do any of the earlier spring sprints, I was really looking forward to this one. Of course it was only a few hours before the start that I discovered t
Found a little time to get on, all expect one Q were tropo, that other one seemed to be MS (strong and then gone). 25 Q 11 Grid 275 Score Chet, N8RA FN31 Connecticut _________________________________
Ken, Yes, I've used it here for years for all contests including multiops, HF and VHF. No problems, really like it. Don't let the huge amount of features scare you off, you don't have to use them all
Interesting, never saw those problems here over the last 10 or more years. But we are simple users and follow the instructions, and do not try anything outside the box. No problems with the N1MM netw
These are wonderful amps- high quality design and construction. I have three of them, one waiting to be converted for 222 and the others in use on 2M and 70 cm. But they are HEAVY and the blower whin
I haven't developed any capability to go to the FM portions during the contest, so don't go there, and cannot comment about that. When asking stations if they had any other bands for a contact, there
Les, What is the number of contacts you made on 2M and 440 FM? Do you know if it was different stations, or one station passing the mic around? 73 Chet, N8RA I'm happy to report that efforts to incre
Thanks Les, that does seem like a decent showing for the new category. I live in the NE but came from the Midwest so may have a different attitude about the internet and other assistance. In addition
Marshall, It shocked me that you would conclude that. But it succeeded in getting my attention-hi. Perhaps my sorry lot as a single op came from my experiences growing up with ham radio. As a teenage