Hello John and other VHF Contesters.....I may be completely lost here, but I thought that the "ICOM spike" occurred when PTT was pushed just at the first of a transmission......The overshoot was in t
My idea is that you can buy 3-4 of the smaller 3500W generators that have 240VAC for the price of one of the larger Hondas. Your call.... 73 Marshall On 12/21/2018 10:22 AM, K7XC Tim Marek k7xcnv1@gm
Hello everyone....that generator does look nice, however, it only has 120VAC and no 240VAC. All the big amps that I have run on 240VAC. We bought a dual fuel 7500W(gas) / 6750(propane) generator fr
Hi Mike and others....It does indeed have 240VAC. I posted earlier that I was mistake in this. 73 Marshall K5QE Maybe I'm looking at the wrong link but I went to the mfgr web-site https://www.duroma
Hello to all our friends in the Meteor Scatter / WSJT world from the K5QE contest team....K5QE will be operating in the ARRL January VHF Contest and would really appreciate any contacts that we can m
Roger on the N3FJP software. I purchased the full suite many years ago and have always been very happy. I use the VHF Network version and have for years. You don't have to tell it anything other th
Hello all....I have picked up 4 of the M2 2M18XXX antennas. These belonged to an SK and were stored in his barn after his death. The boxes are a bit ratty because of that, but they have never been
Hello all....I have secured an MT3000 "chassis" from the estate of an SK. It was placed in a garage for several years after the guy's death and I just recently got it. It is definitely a "fixer upp
Hi Patrick....you are right about the CW calling freq....I don't think one exists now. I would suggest that 144.200 is about the closest thing.....at least in our area. ASIDE: Please hold the flames
Hello to anyone interested in FFMA or grids on 6M. A group of VHF ops will activate DL79 and DL89 this summer in support of the FFMA award. Here is our basic announcement. BEGIN ANNOUNCEMENT: A DXp
Hello everyone....I will be attending the VHF SuperConference in the Washington, DC area (the 25th thru the 27th). I can put a few of the Heliax connectors in my carry on luggage if anyone wants the
HI Peter and others interested in this topic....I have always said that if you have a REAL QSL card, you can use it for whatever awards happen to be laying around. A real QSL card works for grids, s
Hello all....I think that what Tim-XC meant was "no repeater type contacts" rather than characterizing things as terrestrial vs satellite. EME contacts are not terrestrial, but they sure are not "re
Hello to all....There is no doubt that Jay-W9RM is a better operator than I am. However, the rates that he quotes are from an HF contest with its phony signal reports. I cannot conceive that anyone
Hi John...we noticed that last weekend. The newbies and HFers just will not stop sending the "funny little numbers". Also, you cannot pry them off FT8, even when signals were very strong. We got t
Hello to all interested in chasing grids on 6M. The K5N group is planning a grid DXpedition to three of the most wanted grids in the Big Bend region of Texas. We are planning to activate DL79, DL89
Hello everyone interested in our (so far non-) DXpedition to DL79 and DL89. We loaded up this morning and took off for west Texas and the Big Bend country. However, about 100 miles from home, (like
Hello to all interested in the 222 band.....I still need several states for 222 WAS. I have grouped them into two "groups"....east and west from me. The east group consists of KY, WI, MD, DE, ME, RI
Hello All....the QSL cards finally arrived today. My printer admitted with a lot of chagrin that he had lost my order in all the confusion at his end. However, he did get right on it and the cards
Hello everyone....all the QSL cards for the recent K5N DXpedition to DL79 and DL89 are now filled out and in the mail. IF you sent me a QSL card for this trip, I have returned it. HOWEVER, there is