Hi all, Interesting sidebar to the discussions of "contesting rigs". The envelope please ... 1 was an FT1000MP, Mark V 1 was an FT1000D 1 was a Kenwood TS-850, and 7 were FT1000MP's Interesting huh?
Coincidentally with Dave's (K6LL) posting of info about the front end selection via menus on the MP and Mark V, I had a chance to do the INRAD IF Amp mod for a friend. Here's an email I sent this mor
Alan, I have traveled twice with HF radios since 9/11. Neither time did I have any more than the usual problems. The first was in February of 2002 on a trip from here (LA) to French Polynesia. Radios
Eveing all, Finally, I can't help but put my $.02 in ... Tom's comment about "less visible" events vs. CQWW hit the crux of the issue. But in addition to events, there are less visible times as well.
Hal, here's a partial answer to your question re radios in carry-on luggage. In February I flew to Tahiti from LAX (non-stop) on Air Tahiti Nui. I carried my FT990 and assorted electronics in a locke
Hi Bill, Thanks for the info on the filters. I had been thinking about the W3LPL design but it's also good to know about the other. Clearly, we will be adding filters/stubs as needed. I was (pleasant
For those of you who didn't see Jay Leno's Tonight show last night (Friday), there was NO contest in the contest for speed and accuracy in transmitting a message via morse versus using text messaging
Hi all, Does anyone know if there is a substitute configuration to enable TRLog (v6.79) to communicate with an FTdx9000D? I've tried the usual suspects (FT1000, FT990, FT1000MP, FT817 and FT897) with
Hi all, We had an interesting interference problem crop up this last weekend at NA6Q, and I'd be interested to hear ideas from anyone else on a possible source. Here's the background: For WPXCW at th
Hi all, I have been asked by some overseas friends for advice regarding the hookup of a series of laptops into a network to support an effort in WPX coming up. In the past they have used CT (under DO
What a shock that was this morning ... For me, Bill Fisher was an early link into the contesting community. Back in '96 when I was getting back into contesting after 25 years of QRT, I called Bill on
Actually, if it's the MFJ890, then it's just a clock. It synchronizes (via WWVB LF signals) with the time and then LED's placed at the approximate location of the NCDXF propagation beacons on a map,
Hi all! Thanks for all the Q's in FD and thanks especially to the team from Federacion Radioaficionados de Cuba. It was a great trip and a great honor to participate in the first ever joint Cuba-US F
Hi all, For those of you who don't monitor 3830, here's the post written by K7JA re our operation in Cuba as CO0US and T42FD for 2003 Field Day. The posting for the FD "soapbox" with pictures should
You know your commute is too long (and there is no contest going on) when you have time to mull over such things as: A proposed handicap for stations doing CW contests mobile in motion, single op, no
YES!!! Along with all the tongue in cheek stuff that floats around, your wisdom (yeah, I know you probably wouldn't want it called that) has the ring of truth to it. And I consider myself fortunate t
Local Terrain -- the most valuable asset your station and antenna can have!! Seriously, I was led to some analysis of local terrain (out from 6 to 15 Km from the antenna) by the fortunate circumstanc
Rag is 100% right -- when I was in FO a few months ago, the prevailing propagation was to EU over the pole in my evening hours. Given that I was apparently fairly loud in EU, the pileups quickly beca
I wasn't on in the contest, but saw FO8AA in a few logs. Can anyone tell me who the operator(s) was(were) and the precise location (which island)? Thanks, Bill, W1HIJ(/6) -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http:/
FO8DX, SOABLP, WPX/CW, 2001 Mai Moana Island, Bora Bora OC067 W1HIJ, Op WOW! What a great experience! At the end of November of last year, I had been to Mai Moana Island, the home of Stan Wisniewski,