Been walking around saying that all week! I think the subject line of the message may be just a good candidate marketing phrase for this great band. For the 222 Sprint tonight, Karl, K4TRT and I plan
Shucks! This news just days after getting some power on that band! Had heard the .150 net many Tues nights, but never seemed to have enough soup out of the barefoot xverter to make QNI from the house
While we're on the subject of categories.... here's an interesting , maybe non-existent one: Limited QRP Multi-op Portable - 4 bands max... - 10 watts max... - 2 or 4 operators... We'll submit this f
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friends and Fellow VHF Contesters (multiple recipients), Several Evil Robot VHF/UHF Society (ERVUS) board members, along with some Virginia Tech Amateur Radio Assoc. stalwarts a
4 Qs, 4 grids -- QRP w/ horiz wire gain antenna array strung up 40' COR AGL between two nice oaks at 3000' AMSL in EM97vh, very near to the Audy Murphy Memorial Monument on Brush Mountain. TNX WA4GPI
Jon's right -- my solar/battery home station makes (*minimal*) use of a G-800 to rotate 11 el on 222 and 19 el on 432. Minimal -- because with only 240Ah of battery, I must be careful to budget the e
The wire antenna can be very effective at VHF and even UHF -- just as cheap and easy as the HF brethren, if not cheaper and easier with the reduced size requirements. Multi-element arrays and "curtai
Folks, Look for Virginia Tech / WUVT-FM Engineering multi-op N4BTR / P this weekend. Skeds welcome, reply to kf4ylm@vt.edu. Vitals follow. Good luck, and we'll see _YOU_ on _222_ . 73, - Josh / KF4YL
A light effort, as we'll be visiting family and the XYL will accompany the first leg of the rove (gritting her smiling teeth) SAT: 1600 EDT until 1800 EDT EM96 from Rocky Knob on the Blue Ridge Parkw
3 Qs, 3 grids from EM97. Best DX was K4QI / FM06. Heard K1RZ's CW CQs for a moment. Ran 19 el and 10 W from home QTH. First time I've run it from home, and found evidence supporting the notion that t
We'll be activating EM97qi with the call K4TRT for the 222 Sprint Tue night from 4200' AMSL. ~100W or so with a 3-bay Skeleton Slot up 30' on CW/SSB, and 1W with a cheesy handheld on FM. Will also ha
A contingent of operators will ascend to 4200' AMSL atop Butt Mtn in Giles Co., VA, GRID EM97qi. We'll be operating under the call K4HZ. 100W SSB/CW or better on the "bottom four" with various antenn
June plans/info in a nutshell: CALL - K4HZ (ops K4HZ, KF4YLM, KI4PBZ, KI4RIX, KJ4OAP, KJ4QLP, ++ ??) LOC - EM97qi / Giles Co. VA / 4200 AMSL OP TIME - Continuous from contest start until at least noo
Also listening and calling CW around 222.1MHz from EM97ui, usually around 0700-0800 EDT, and late evenings.... TNX W4CLJ for the solitary Q in the last UHF contest!! 73, - Josh / KF4YLM _____________
Minikits.com.au has a PHEMT kit based around the ATF50189 that will produce +30dBm, similar to the M67715. http://www.minikits.com.au/kits7.html#eme162-1200 So if your xvrtr has room for a Vreg and a
Virginia QSO Party (in March) also counts V/U Qs..... - Josh / KF4YLM Tad Danley, K3TD EM10dq If it is a typical state QSO Party (primarily HF) it doesn't belong here. Please respect the group by not
Modern V/U FM rigs have enough memories and selective scan modes that allow one to program in a cadre of locally active (or potentially active from afar) frequencies and place them on continuous scan
Also find good 'test activity on these freqs 3-4 grids adj to EM97. Several stations usually call 146.55. 223.5 --> sometimes I wouldn't even work my own grid in the 222 Sprints if it wasn't for FM s
Eating breakfast every morning this week with W1GHZ's antenna book (yes, for champions!).... working on a 10GHz antenna feed. The junk box had a couple of old ChannelMaster Ku-Band DRO LNBs laying ar