Hello to everyone interested in DX on 2M. This is the last night for our operation on Saint Martin. We will be on 144.134 First looking for US callers...everyone is welcome. LAST CALL.... Tomorrow we
Hello everyone....I have finally gotten the 222 EME station online and ready. This has only taken about 5 years!! AAAaaaaaRGH!!! HI. I will be on tonight, Saturday night and Sunday night for some tes
Hello to everyone playing in the contest. As you probably know, I was out of the country at Saint Martin / Sint Maarten for the first leg of the contest. I was a team member with Rene'-PE1L, Jurgen-P
Hello to all 222 ops....First, you are REQUIRED to have a Great New Year. After that, I am trying to collect a list of 222 EME stations AND a list of 222 stations that have large enough stations to d
Hello to all MS ops within range of East Texas. The January Quadrantids are only about 2 1/2 days away...the shower is supposed to peak at 0800Z = 2AM CST on January 4th--in other words, in the middl
Hello to all 222 ops....I have decided to work very hard on my 222 WAS in 2016. I only need 20 states to finish up. That seems like a lot, but many of them can be worked on meteor scatter(MS). The re
Hello all....the CQ WW VHF contest is quite cleverly constructed, actually. Currently, the CQ contest uses 6M and 2M, by FAR the most popular VHF bands. Essentially, everyone has gear for 6M and / or
Hi Ken and all interested in this topic....I know a few of the members of the Committee. ALL of the members of the committee are true VHFers and in my opinion, they really do care. I hope that someth
Hello all....I have a DEMI high power 1296--28MHz transverter that I have decided to let go. It has the phase locked LO board, so it requires a 10MHz source. The power output is 50+W out on 1296....p
Hello everyone....I want to assure everyone that the proposed new rules for the UHF contest were NOT set up to discriminate against me. Thanks for the spirited defense, but in this case, no defense i
Hello all....I am driving to Dayton next week, so I have the room(and the weight allowance) to bring some of my stash of Heliax connectors with me. Here is what I have.... 1)N Male for FSJ4-50B 1/2"
Hello EME ops. This year, the ARRL June VHF Contest will be held June 11th and 12th. We want to work as many EME stations on 2M AND 432 as possible to increase our grid count. Please help us with thi
Here is a Change.org petition that you should look into. If you agree, then sign the petition and forward the link below to as many Amateurs as possible. 73 Marshall K5QE https://www.change.org/p/arr
Hello to everyone that plays the meteor scatter game.....I am working on my 222 WAS, so I would like to work as many new states as possible that are within range of me on 222 meteor scatter during th
Help!!! I am trying to get an ICOM 9100 to interface with my digital interface using the Data2 port(the 6 pin Mini-Din) connector on the back. Specifically, I cannot get the rig to key when the compu
Hello to all our friends in the VHF / WSJT world from the K5QE contest team....K5QE will be operating in the ARRL September VHF Contest and would really appreciate any contacts that we can make via F
Hello to all our friends in the VHF / WSJT world from the K5QE contest team....K5QE will be operating in the ARRL September VHF Contest and would really appreciate any contacts that we can make via F
Hi Tom and everyone interested in this thread.....I think that it is clear that MSK has won the war. Few, if any, will be using FSK441 in the future. I would be in favor of moving the "calling freque
Hello all....the reason that we have assistance allowed in the ARRL VHF contests is so that you don't have to waste time trying to guess as to where someone else might be. Just post yourself on the P
Hi Patrick....I believe that JT65 is not allowed in the CW only portions of 6M and 2M. So using 144.100MHz, the exact band edge, would not be allowed either. I may be wrong on this. Why these legacy