Hello Jon One thing nice about old radios like the TS-820 is they don't have the mystery LSI chips and usually easy to fix. They also find mults in a contest just fine, maybe even better. Verify the
Another solution is to remove the Ground from the wiper of RY1 relay and replace it with a wire going back to the radio pinout PTT Gnd. This will also isolate the Gnds. MFJ made several flavors of th
Hi Robert The resistor that needs changing in the 781 is impossible to get to and I have had the radio mostly apart for other reasons. Changing the resistor may help but adding mic gain by their Icom
I spent a few minutes going over the rules for WRTC2002. I hope to work all the teams this summer on all bands/modes, if I can hear them. The rules go a long way to explain in detail how radio positi
Well, I don't know if it was a great day or not. Just received my copy to confirm Dennis, K7BV is leaving the NCJ for uncharted waters. I'm sure this is good for Dennis but I worry about his leaving.
Here in this part of the world Italy is always louder then most other Europe stations. They usually come crashing through any pile we may have. They seem to have propagation to Alaska for 24 hours a
Dale reports: This question came up last week when a visitor asked about my home brew SO2R box and what was needed. If you have yet to face this, mine has the following interconnects using a small 3
Hi Bob Dave, K8CC , covered most everything I was going to mention. My station is set up as multi-multi most of the year with SO2R for single op contests. To do this I pop the 80 meter position out o
Bob comments: Same thing here, about the same time, maybe same incident??? A W6 said I was on their freq. I said it was clear and they said they were up one kHz. I asked him if we were now suppose to
I have an answer, "weed". When 20 is so packed and you can't find a freq, just find a SO2R guy and wait, in the weeds. It will soon be yours... Rich KL7RA -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesti
This last weekend you had a great ten meter freq so I tried to steal it by a frontal attack by saying "Yo Bob, I'm taking this freq, resistance is futile" and you said "again, again". Probably indica
Yo Contesters - 5901, qrz, freq's in use, again again.... A few years ago a co-worker came out to the contest station to see what HAM radio was all about. I told him it was a great hobby where you ge
Contesting in the Multi-Multi category can be really fun. This is a (not so short) report of the KL7RA M/M operation this weekend for any one interested in starting or operating from this category. T
Hi Gary The problem is the WPX is a rate contest and most of the serious stations are calling CQ. The other problem is there are a lot of prefixes in this contest so the single op has little incentiv
Bill replies: I had a complete two station setup in the 60's, so2r switching and all. Unfortunately it was used for instant band hopping as I never acquired the skill to tune a second radio for mults
I would like to add my humble vote "yes" to this idea. As Dave mentions in his list of reasons, I'm one of those ops that has been doing single band efforts the last few years because I get whipped l
This should move us past "pse copy",, Kenwood TS850. Easy to find used, cheap, works great for contesting, PC control. Holds most of the world records in Multi-Multi. Good receiver with the filters,
Or small ships at sea spaced out over some distance, but the cost would be too much. I had a great time working the OJ's and found they would pick my call out very quickly. Conditions here in Alaska
You're probably right Mike, but during the last few hours of the test their SSB rates were around five a minute, 300 hour, or more and I was having some difficulty cracking their ssb piles. The usua