Hello to everyone....Danny-N5OMG has suggested that we operate "split" while in DL88. He did not mean the normal meaning of split operation, rather he suggested that we operate on 50.165MHz when we a
Hello again to all crazy grid chasers and operators.....Group2 of the K5N DXpedition to the Texas Big Bend area is still short two operators. Colin-KB5U has committed to come along and he is well kno
Hello everyone....l need to change my email address on the Stanford VHF reflector. My old provider is gone and now all my emails are being rejected. I tried to do this before the old address went out
Hello to everyone interested in FFMA and grid chasing....I got a call from Tom-NQ7R last night. He has signed on to Group2 for the Great Summer DXpedition to the Big Bend area. This is great news as
Hello to everyone interested in the Big Bend area grids. This will probably be our last post before we leave. Some of us are leaving on Monday afternoon and some very early Tuesday morning. We contin
Hello Tom....This "problem" should be addressed directly to someone in charge at CQ. Now that Gene-W3ZZ is an SK, I don't know who that might be. However, John Lindholm-W1XX signs the certificates an
Hello everyone....the CQ WW VHF contest is this weekend from 1800Z = 1PM CDST on Sat until 2100Z= 4PM CDST on Sunday afternoon. This is a 6M and 2M contest only, so you don't have to worry about all
Hello everyone....Please, Please, send your QSL cards for the recent DXpeditions to Joey-W5TFW. Joey is our QSL manager. The traveling members of the group do not have blank cards to send out. I sent
Hello to all 222 fans(fanatics).....I would like to run some 222 MS during the Perseids meteor shower. I need just about all the states north and west of me except AZ and MN. I need all the W2 and W3
Hello all 50MHz ops...I plan to run the 50MHz Spring Sprint on Saturday afternoon. If there is any Es, then clearly I will be on SSB looking for contacts. IF the band is "dead" then I will be running
Hello from deep East Texas....Somehow, I found a surplus dealer that had some more of the HP/CPQ blade server power supplies. These run on 240VAC and produce 51.4VDC @ 57A. They are perfect for just
Hello to everyone who is planning to participate in the ARRL Sept VHF contest. The K5QE contest station will be operational during the contest and we would love to get you into our log. We will be op
Hello everyone....I still have a small stack of the HP/CPQ 51.4VDC power supplies. These are the ones that put out 57A and require 240VAC for input. A comparable power supply by MeanWell costs over $
Hello All....we used the N1MM logging program for our DXpedition to DL88. Worked fine as we were a single user on a single computer. The window for the packet cluster was very nice. HOWEVER, I have s
Hello to all interested in FFMA and 6M grid chasing.....Here is the announcement of the K5N 2nd Annual Winter DXpedition....If you are interested in EL28, clear your schedule, be sure your coax is dr
Hello to everyone....The issue of letting the ARRL "publish" specific FM frequencies for contesting purposes was discussed in the VUAC forum at the SE VHF conference. Surprisingly, there was resistan
Hello everyone....we have a VERY hard time getting our local club members to drop by and give us an FM contact. They want us to win the club competition for them, but they don't want to help.....the
Well, we are "Off to see the Wizard" tomorrow early in the AM. We will drive to Houston and then down to the site in EL28. The grid there is EL28es(I think). We will setup Sunday morning and be "in t
Hello Keith and everyone interested in VHF contesting......The CQ WW VHF rules are absolutely wonderful. The CQ contest is far and away the best VHF contest that we have. I know that the HF types go
Hello Les and everyone else....I was the one the proposed the Simple Rover Class. It was to be 6M, 2M, and 432 only. The VUAC did not like my name and called it the Limited Rover Class....well that i