-- Well Jeff, if we "Way Out West" stations can achieve 25 DX mults in our logs it is a GREAT outing. I surely hope your predictions are on the mark. Milt, N5IA -- Op at N7GP and NA5NM club stations.
Ford, Rick and other, This is one of the goals of our group at N7GP, each year for the ARRL 160 and the CQ 160 contests. We have done it a number of times (all 50 in two nights and sometimes in one n
-SNIP- -SNIP- That is the FIRST thing I learned from WA6CDR when I was invited to go on the XZ1N and XZ0A expeditions. The 2nd thing was you have to be there for at least 4 weeks to go through a comp
Don, There are two things to be aware of when trying to reuse the Preformed (brand Name) guying grips. First, in removing them from the cable, use a small screw driver to lift the individual strands
All, I constructed my first 160 Meter Ground Plane here in late 1995. Insulated base 1/8 WL AGL and a full 1/4 WL above that. From the base, extending outward and slightly downward to the top of 55 f
...snip... The cable is normally purchased in two varieties, 60% braid and 90% braid. Only if it is the "Flooded" variety. The cable can be purchased as normal drop cable, or with the flooding for un
I echo what Pat, Riki and Jim have said; "Thanks to the Boring Amateur Radio Club for creating, sponsoring and fostering the SPDC through its 1st ten years of life". I enjoy operating the contest as
Top 20 -- BLENDED RESULTS OF ALL THREE SO CLASSES; 5 QRP, 8 LP, and 7 HP. The distance scoring and multipliers for Q's with LP and QRP stations works very well. Thanks Tree, Lew and the BARC. CU all
-- GM Ford and all the other diehards. At 1341z N0UD called me from ND for state # 50. WAS in 15 hours and 41 minutes from Southeast AZ in DM52. I have 6 Sections to go for the sweep. It will have to
lew@dsl-only.net wrote the following and Milt, N5IA added comments below Hello Contesters, 160M addicts and Thrill Seekers everywhere, --SNIP-- KL7RA Highest Number of QSO's W7TMT Top Score, Low Powe
This "Phenonema" was VERY prevalent this past weekend when many, many stations with strong signals were already CQing when my receiver recovered from the transmitter sending my quite short callsign O
I rather like Tree's suggestion of another "bowl" of Stew. The contest as is, is only a one night affair. To offset most of the comments I have read, and to follow the lead of one astute commenter, I
over this ravine for about 50-60 feet of its total length. Although it hears OK, it is a far poorer performer than the other beverages that maintain roughly the same height AGL over their entire leng
-- Yuri and others. While the ground plane I construct to restore Beverage behavior over the arroyos has performed as described, I am also convinced that the antenna does NOT obtain much "gain" in i
I got up early this morning to listen for Randy and the boys over in BV. Never heard them but the band was in quite good shape. Casual calling netted 15 JA's although no signals were more than S-6. D
I regularly make 50 to 150 contacts with JA in any given 160 Meter CW contest, depending on propagation. That is from New Mexico. If propagation is great, yes there are pileups on my calls because of
I too am saddened at the news of Earl's passing. Earl and I had corresponded quite a bit this past year after I requested his assistance in modeling my mountain top peak, elevated, grounded, vertical
snip And that statement brings to mind how I did the same with an upright Crosley console, but with one addition. I used a heathkit signal generator to inject the carrier for copy of SSB signals. Wh
Eddy and others, Some posts have already eluded to proper operation of the Beverage antenna NEAR salt water, etc. The key in all these reported applications is that the soil/rock immediately underne
Mis dos centavos.............. The sets of mirrors are not the same ones in the two directions. The difference in the arrival angles at the two terminals are different and vary from minute to minute.