God morning! Here are my comments and results of the 144 MHz Sprint. At one point in the 144 Sprint last night, I remarked to someone that making contacts was like getting a root canal operation. The
Hi Sprinters, I managed to get on by wildly hooking up radio gear in the hour before the Sprint began. I was a little behind schedule. Possibly winding 150 ft of #12 copperweld wire around my truck d
Hi Ev, Thanks for stirring up the pot again. I like it when I get more real email than spam. The contest results used to come out in three months back before home computers were ever invented. Everyb
Hi Jon and others, I think this KP2 under reporting points up a problem with VHF contests in that casual operators may not send in a score. The result is that activity is under reported. I have sugge
Hi Walter, I have been grumbling about the lack of VHF and microwave activity in the rest of Maine for years. The State is so vast, and so un populated that making contacts up here is always a proble
Hi folks, I pretty much hit bottom with the June contest. We did not have a big operation planned, but had hoped to spend a nice weekend playing with some new setups and logging program. I had 50 thr
Hi Rick, K1WHS will be QRV for the UHF Contest. A few of us will be here running stuff. Hopefully we will be lighting up all the bands between 222 and 24 GHz. Right now everything is working pretty w
Hi Alex, I think you are taking things too seriously. W2EV is just trying to get all of us to think without our usual blinders on. Yeah, some of it sounds crazy, but it is all creative, or showing so
Hi Dave, Yup! You heard right. The antenna is quite sharp vertically, but very broad in azimuth. Gain is over 20 dBd in free space. It is aimed at about 230 degrees and covers from Rhode Island out t
Hi Ken et al, Great totals from FN12!! It looks like you had some tropo. (and a good time!) It was my time to get in my familiar position in the bottom of the tropo barrel. The band was absolutely go
Well, Paul, you were smokin' in here when you had the beam this way. I had 2 X 8 elements stacked and pointed to the NE. Even when you were off the back of my 4 yagi array, you were S9! I think the p
Hi all, I had a very rough attempt at the 432 Sprint. It all looked so good when I started, but soon went to you know where in a hand basket! I chatted with W4SHG in Virginia before the sprint began.
Hi Ken, I must confess, I was not QRV for the Six Meter Sprint Saturday night. I went over to the Dark Side and was making a few contacts on 40 meters in the ARCI QRP HF contest being held at the sam