[Fourlanders] Fwd: "Joe FT-857" Finally Gets His Day!

[Jim Worsham]

Directional Yagi beams.  The higher the better.  Minimal or no obstructions for 360 degrees.  If you can get on a good hill top with an unobstructed view for 360 degrees you are golden.  It is hard to do this aspect of the hobby from CCR neighborhoods.  That is why many of us go to the mountain in NC for the contests.  A couple of us even live in the mountains!  Portable or roving is the way to go for many folks I think.  My 2 cents.

73
Jim, W4KXY
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Kludt 
  To: Jim Worsham ; whensley11 at comcast.net ; Fourlanders 
  Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 8:47 AM
  Subject: Re: [Fourlanders] Fwd: "Joe FT-857" Finally Gets His Day!


  Gentlemen,

  As president of NFARL I am going to push this a bit with the club.  It certainly is an opportunity to try and convince our Technician colleagues there is more to ham radio life than 2 meter repeaters.  The FT-8*7 series of rigs handles the transmit/receive side of things.  The other thing that stops many is antennas.  I chide some of my QRP friends that there is QRP as in 5 watts and wire in a tree and QRP as in 5 watts and a five element beam at seventy feet fed with hardline.  Many of these folks in the metro area live in ares controlled by CCR's.  As Fourlanders what would we recommend to these folks for antennas?  Gotta be horizontal.  Omin-directional versus directional antennas?  If I want to play in this class, what will it take?  Maybe a rover situation is a better way to go - what does that involve?  How do, I, we help them take a run at this?

  John, K4SQC

  -----Original Message-----
  >From: Jim Worsham 
  >Sent: Apr 11, 2013 12:41 AM
  >To: whensley11 at comcast.net, Fourlanders 
  >Subject: Re: [Fourlanders] Fwd: "Joe FT-857" Finally Gets His Day!
  >
  >I believe this was in place for the Jnauary contest. The FM only category 
  >certainly was.
  >
  >73
  >Jim, W4KXY
  >
  >----- Original Message ----- 
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  >To: "Fourlanders" 
  >Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:17 AM
  >Subject: [Fourlanders] Fwd: "Joe FT-857" Finally Gets His Day!
  >
  >
  >> Too busy at the moment to confirm this.....
  >>
  >> Kim
  >>
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  >>
  >>
  >> Today's QST carried an announcement of a new category for the June
  >> Contest, September Contest, etc. A "three band" category allowing
  >> operation on 50 MHz,
  >> 2 Meters, and 432 ONLY. This is the perfect category for the thousands
  >> of operators who have just an FT-857, FT-897, or Icom MKIII.
  >>
  >> Also the addition of the new FM Only category means no more excuses not
  >> to play in the VHF contests. No need to invest in transverters to be
  >> competitive.
  >> My applause and delight to the ARRL and the VUAC for this decision.
  >>
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