[VHFcontesting] [VHF] 902.010 for contests?

[Zack Widup]

In this area 903 is pretty bad but not unusable from the portable site 
I've been using.  Up north it's far worse from what I've been told; W9ZIH 
has given up on the band and is selling his 903 gear.

902 is a lot quieter. I notice the noise floor to be a lot less on 902 as 
compared to 903.

I'm using a homebrew preamp using an MGF1302 on 902 but I have a design 
using an FPD750 which looks promising - predicted gain of 20 dB and 0.4 
dB NF. Just need to finish it and try it out.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Crownhaven wrote:

>
> BTW, anyone using a MM preamp on 900??????  I have been concerned about 
> picking up a bunch of trash but tuning around the band here reveals no other 
> signals, no phones, no baby monitors or anything.  I am guessing most of this 
> stuff has moved up???????
>