OR you can just call it all PH. I read somewhere in the ARRL rules that using PH is fine, as the digital stuff is just tones injected into the audio path. I have used PH for all the digital stuff a
Hello to all my fellow contesters....I am just about caught up after the Jan contest...still looking for all that lost sleep. I have read all of the "gloom and doom" posts about FT8. What we contest
Hello Alex....the "rules" for what constitutes a proper VHF contact have been set for over 50 years. No less than Ed Tilton-W1HDQ was the person involved in the very early days. A proper VHF contac
Hi Zack and all.....On VHF, you must exchange(both ways) both calls, a signal report of some kind(this is Zack's piece of information) and a Roger. I believe that Zack's post is telling us that the
Hello everyone....I find that I need a Rohn 55 top plate or beacon plate to complete an antenna project that we are working on. If you have one that you are not using, please let me know and we can
Hello to all VHF contesters.... I have 5 6M1000 solid state amplifiers that I need to move out to new homes. I have two combined pairs and one spare. The combined pairs were used in the K5QE contest
Hello to all VHF contesters.... I have 5 6M1000 solid state amplifiers that I need to move out to new homes. I have two combined pairs and one spare. The combined pairs were used in the K5QE contest
Hello again to the VHF world... In a fit of stupidity, I did not write down that the 6M1000s were M2 amps. A couple of ops did not recognize them and wanted to know who built them. The single spare a
Hello everyone....I would love to see a VHF101 at Dayton. Kent-WA5VJB and I have been giving a VHF101 at the Central States VHF Convention for several years now. In general, it is well received. I us
Hi Tom...have you talked to M2? I have always had great luck by just asking for what I need. I think(I might be wrong on this one)that they have data sheets for most of their antennas....even older o
Hello everyone...while testing our new FT8 station today, I noticed that a very large number of people were still sending the "funny little numbers". Now I know that we are not in the contest yet, b
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen.....the contest is getting close. I wish everyone the best of luck. Please remember to send GRIDS not -12. I saw a bunch of folks sending only K5QE K3XXX -02 rather than
Hello to all the VHF contesters who ran the June contest. Due to all the hype concerning FT8, we decided this year to add a completely independent 6M station just to monitor FT8. The station has a 6
Hi Mark and others interested in this topic.... I did not realize that there were so many "issues" for stations running /R. I suppose that is because moving my station from grid to grid would be a r
Hi again Alex....I am not sure that I am correct on that. I would suggest that someone research this carefully and report back to the group. Since we are a Multi-op, that particular rule does not a
Hello Bob and everyone else participating in this post mortem.... All of Bob's points are well taken, but I want to reply to 2) and to 5). REGARDING 2)--Several ops have mentioned that they saw signa
Hello my fellow VHFers.....A friend sent me this request..... Marshall, your writing is a good complete explanation, but too long for the short attention span crowd that has infested FT8. Need to wri
Hello to all VHF ops, especially those that are fooling around with FT8 on 6M. It has come to my attention that the problems with the NA Contest Mode(CM) and the so called "normal" mode of FT8 are st
Hello to all VHF contesters.....The CQ WW VHF contest is this weekend(21st and 22nd July). When there is no Es on 6M, we plan to be on MSK144 meteor scatter or FT8. Seems reasonable... However, the
HI everyone...but if they answer YOUR CQ, they most likely will answer with Tx2, which does NOT contain their grid. This is why things get really screwed up and why the contest mode needs to be used