[VHFcontesting] [VHF] 902.010 for contests?

[Joe Crawford]

How did folks decide on 902 in some areas and 903 in other areas? My local 
ISP has equipment running in the upper part of the band, so I would have to 
go portable from my place. I just scored a great deal on a 903 looper and a 
1296 looper, now to find reasonable equipment.
                                                                Joe W4AAB 
EM65lb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zack Widup" <w9sz at prairienet.org>
To: "Crownhaven" <crownhaven at bellsouth.net>
Cc: <w8iss at amsat.org>; "VHF mailer" <vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu>; "VHF Contesting 
email" <VHFcontesting at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] [VHF] 902.010 for contests?


>
> 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???????
>>
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