Hello fellow 222 Sprinters, I was up on the 100 ft 222 MHz tower at 6PM trying to see if I could swap out a rotator to replace the T2X that was broken in the Sept Contest. It has no beam indication,
Hello Paul aka BUG man, Well activity begets activity. I was always impressed that you got on and were active from your spot on VHF. The problem is that if no one ever gets on, then no one will point
Hello Jeff and fellow Sprinters! Things sure seemed different here in Maine as compared to K1TEO's results. There was darn little evidence that the band was up at all. The good news was that it was n
Hello John, For the higher bands of 144 and up, I used to think that it all depended on your horizon angle (The angle from your antenna to the horizon) If there was any obstrruction in front of your
Hello Mike, The culprit is most likely rf from another band getting into the TS-2000 and causing the problem. Best way to test is to get an HP or similar rf power meter and hook it to the 1296 antenn
Amen! One really good way to foster activity is to run extended range skeds on any of the VHF bands. That is a great way, to generate interest and build activity on the air. When I was a kid, I used
Hi Jeff, Ron, and Phil et al. I am sorry but I could not make it for the 222 Sprint. I have been sick for 4 weeks, and it has gotten worse in the last few days. I think I got some influenza bug over
Hello Paul, This is very interesting! It is always interesting to hear reports from around the country. Things can be so different depending on ur location! For me, Saturday was the big day. Sunday w
Score: Murphy 15 K1WHS 2 It wasn't pretty. We had great plans to have a pretty nice weekend, but at the last minute, the weather report changed for the worse. Saturday was blistering hot, humid, and
Hi Steve, It is that time again, but with no source of AC power to speak of, I will be running just the 60 watt exciter on 144 MHz. It looks like the band will be open later this week, but with the l
Hi Steve, I heard the guy calling you on CW when you were in FM08US. It was W2GIO. He was in FN31. Another interesting thing was that the only time I ever heard K1TR was when he called you. I never w
Hello fellow 432 Sprinters! I kept hearing the same mantra all night, over and over again. "Boy are you weak! I can hardly hear ya!" I did get on for the whole sprint, running 50 watts output from my
A real bummer, John. This from a guy who just lost his 30 KW generator, had his house hit by lightning, and then had his two beagles run off and have one of then peppered with buckshot. Back in the l
Just back from the Microwave Update in Valley Forge, PA. Very heavy attendance, but not many six meter ops present. K3TUF, WZ1V, AF1T, W1AIM, many Packrats, & myself were there and missed the Sprint.
I have noticed that the K2 performs much better when you do not run the wide SSB filter selection. If I set the bandwidth a bit narrower than the flat out wide SSB filter, the adjacent signal perform
Hello Folks, I found a problem with the phone line this AM. A bad wire in the cable on the street somewhere between me and the nearest splice junction, where there is a very hungry family of mice who
Hi Ron, I know that any single op station cannot use ping jockey, or any of the propagation pages and be considered legal. Using those aids puts them in the assisted category, and they have become a
Hi Tim, If it starts out West of Hawaii, I doubt that things will be OK anywhere near the East Coast, but I would definitely pay attention if I lived out West. The meteor reflection off the debris wo
Hello Nate et al, RE the two loops at 6 and 12 ft, I think Bill K1DY was talking about dead band conditions. When there is Es or other like phenomena, all bets are off, and a low antenna can be quite
I also use Radiomobile. I find that it does a pretty good job of predicting performance on a particular path. There is a learning curve, and I am no expert, or accomplished user, but I do find it ver