[VHFcontesting] Using limited gear

[Zack Widup]

Hey, if you got people to work, go for it!  Mode is not important. QSO's 
are.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Buck Calabro wrote:

> > ...operate on frequencies (such as 908 MHz) that 
> > nobody else uses, which further impedes their 
> > capability to make QSOs with other stations.
> 
> This is a very interesting point because it directly bears on my
> situation.  I am using 10GHz Gunn (wide band) gear loaned to me.  As I
> understand it, the choice of IF is crucial to making contacts with
> other wide band gear.
> 
> Should I not take out the wide band stuff and not make those contacts
> even though there are a very few people I can talk to?  Sure I could
> buy narrow band gear off the shelf right now, but She Who Must Be
> Obeyed has a little something to say about that.  Especially since I
> have a pile of unfinished radio work still to do...
>