Hi Bob, I think you have to make it: CATEGORY-OPERATOR: ROVER Someone needs to work on their Cabrillo standards coordination. 73, zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ VHFcontesti
The contest ended at 2100Z on July 19. Somehow your log is outside of the contest period. 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contes
Hi Dave, Over what distances were you trying to work on 3.4 and what kind of antenna? I ran 1 watt to a 2-foot dish fed with a WA3RMX Triband feed and worked everyone I tried for. Distances were on t
Part of the reason given for dumping the Assisted category was the use of the assisting method to actually assist with the QSO. This would be wrong, obviously; once you start to make the QSO you shou
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Yes, HF people get used to running stations for the entire contest at rates like 3 or 4 an hour or better. There's an adrenalin rush that goes with this which is rare to happen on VHF. I've sat and m
Whoops! Yeah, I meant 3 or 4 a minute or better on HF. During a big opening on VHF, that might be possible. But under routine or worse conditions on VHF, a few an hour is what I usually get. In the 1
Thanks Terry. I kind of suspected that. I don't see any reason to eliminate the assisted category in EME competition either, even though I have never done it. I recall LISTENING for EME QSO's once fr
I thought he was referring to who won, for example, in 1976? I know if you have the QST collection on CD (or all the volumes on paper) you can go and find them, but they aren't on line anywhere that
I think so! I got a few Isotemp 118 OCXO's a few years ago. They have respectable phase-noise figures and are stable and accurate enough themselves without being GPS disciplined in the field. I tweak
As of June 22, it was k1whs@metrocast.net 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/lis
Just a couple additional thoughts: 1 - Always carry your amateur radio license with you. 2 - Carry the issue of QST (or whatever) containing the contest announcement with dates/times if you're in a c
I think there are some folks out there who know us. A few years ago I was operating in the 10 GHz contest from a parking area in Beverly Shores, southern edge of Lake Michigan in northern Indiana. I
Yes. Etch your own circuit boards and build it yourself. I have built everything I use from 50 through 10368 MHz (except for the IF radios). I have transverters that run 10 watts on 902 and 1296, 8 w
I never enter a contest with the hope of winning it. Sometimes I do by default, as in the January contest when no one else in the area enters as a Single-Op (QRP) Portable because the weather is too
I can bet on winning QRP Single-Op Portable for my section by default in the January contest because no one else wants to get out and do it. Am I crazy or what? 73, Zack W9SZ ________________________
Yes. That's the way it's done with cards with pre-printed grid squares on them. 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com h
Although W1GHZ Paul Wade's 222 transverter was originally designed for the FT-817, there is no reason why it can't be made to work with any IF rig: http://www.w1ghz.org/222xvtr/222.htm I etched the c
I only got on for the last hour here. Made 8 QSO's in 7 grids. I was on a hilltop in EN50ue with 10 watts and an 8-element long-spaced Yagi up about 12 feet above the ground. I didn't bother pointing