I fail to see where it states in the contest rules that Digital modes are not allowed... Many hundreds of digital mode contacts are made every contest. Actually the rules say nothing about modes you
Am I missing something? I get no spam here... _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/vhfc
I don't Know if this would be of interest to the discussion or not... A person here in our club (Northern Lights Radio Society) Tried to rove with 4 family members on a trip .. his logs were denied..
All kinds of these just sold on ebay for $150.. most still in the Faa packing EBAY vultures??? whos charging $200-$500 next week. These are UNMODIFIED and right out of the FAA warehouse storage in OK
hello.. i also use a ft920 on 6, I had a 706 2g and i really beg to differ.... the706 can not even compare to the 920... but it will do 2 and 432, which are 2 bands u "need" to do vhf contesting .. n
more food for thought..... the rules state "*Extra VHF Station:* Any Class A entry whose category is two or more transmitters may also operate one additional transmitter if it operates exclusively on
I do believe that the only frequency that you can not use is 146.52 I have not seen any other "outlawed" frequencies... here locally, over a dozen contacts can be made on 146.58 and 446.00 FM durring
"1.9.Only recognized FM simplex frequencies may be used, such as 144.90 to 145.00; 146.49, .55 and .58, and 147.42, .45, .48, .51, .54 and .57 MHz on the 2-meter band. " you cannot transmit "simplex"
How are u mounting the yagi now? tripod? vent pipe? u have a rotor? what radio do u have? and most importantly what are your expectations of the band? If its simple for u to go up 5 more feet... go f
the arrl does not want you to use digipeaters or internet gateways .. the use of simplex aprs is just fine.. it has been oked for use in the arrl contests http://w2ev.rochesterny.org/HamIM/HamIM.htm
Why didnt they just say that single op assisted stations can use the JT65EME chat page durring the contest... That is all that this is about.... http://www.chris.org/cgi-bin/jt65eme Ray J W9RAY _____
Yep.. thats the whole point of the contest..... to make q's and mults...... u need something to do a 3:00 am.... you mise well be making q's a 1000 miles out.. Its quite obvious you have not used ws
I have never heard of anyone making an eme contact for a vhf contest qso...... but then again i have never asked... A local ham here has 4x18xxx on eme and it works quite well.... The last eme contes
At LEAST have something better than the 'blurry photograph of bigfoot' type of evidence that seems to exist so far... their website says they did something like this in the 1970s.... "They introduced
I would think that the mixer is the first thing in line to be killed, unless you are running the low drive option where there is a mmic amp in the tx IF line then that might have died... Ray J W9RAY
you can get the ppt signal form the hf data I/O jack/**//**// <http://www.packetradio.com/bbb/CBL%203.gif>**/ or from the STBY port.. Which band transvertser are you planning on? 10 meter in or 2 met
what do you want to compare it to? and what you expect it to do.. one of the best contest setups would be DB6NT or Down East Microwave transverters hooked to a good hf radio such as a Icom7800,or a f
ha ha Ev, Its not April first yet.... you are kidding right.... W9Ray _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.c
the swr problem is due the fact that these connectors are not made to be 50 ohms at vhf frequency's.. I would think that the center tube is too big of a diameter.. but i don't know much about these t
other than spending big $$$ on a preamp you should probably look around for better Coax.. Bury flex is not a Low loss cable... at 1296 anyway.. you are looking at a 6.8 db loss this is going to take