Hello all...the K5QE contest team will be running the Sept contest from EM31cj as usual. We will be running full blast on 6M, 2M, and 222. 432 is still somewhat doubtful, but maybe we will have tha
Hello all...I have seen several folks post that it was difficult to switch from WSJT to SSB. I don't understand this at all. On my radios, I have "presets" for all the common channels that we use.
DO WHAT?? That last sentence does not make any sense to me. AGAIN, AGAIN... 73 Marshall K5QE On 9/20/2019 11:24 AM, Ron Klimas WZ1V wrote: Some of the guys have also been tossing around the idea of
Hello everyone interested in this topic: The essence of legacy contesting is "spin the dial and turn the antenna" and hope that you can find someone to work. Legacy contesting(HF contesting) is all
Hi Lew....thanks for your comments. I have written about this topic several years ago, before the ARRL changed its VHF contesting rules. Those "white papers" are found at http://k5qe.com/1stpost.ht
HI Byron....there is no question that I am guilty of this. I just don't have the energy to get on the air much. My home station is down right now and I just don't have the "go power" to drive up to
Hello to all VHF contesters....Five years ago, we had SSB, CW, JT65b, and FSK441. We used JT65b for EME and for long haul schedules(where we might try FT8 today). We used FSK441 for meteor scatter
I have been asked to post this to the list from Bob-W3IDT. He is having some problem and can't post to the VHFContesting list properly....Marshall K5QE All, It's pretty clear that there has been a
Hello to the VHF community....I am looking for a "dead" 6M1K2 or 2M1K2. If you have one of those where the palette is gone, but the chassis and/or power supply is still OK, please let me know. My t
We checked for FT4 at the beginning of the contest. Found none and went off to FT8 where there was a lot of activity. Seemed strange to us, but that is what we found.... 73 Marshall K5QE 73 John W5
Hello to all interested in VHF contesting.....Arliss-W7XU has raised a caution that no one seems to have considered. Unintended consequences are always the result of changes....most especially chang
Hello Jay and others interested in this topic.... I had posted my last email before I saw this post from Jay. Interestingly, we have some thoughts on this that are not exactly the same, but similar.
I am certainly no expert on WSJT-X. However, the software already has what they call TX Macros. You can pre-define macros like "QSY 144.174" or whatever you want. Then just select that macro and s
Hello to all 222 ops....Wyatt-AC0RA, John-K1OR, and Paul-N2EME are wanting to find out which states are still needed for 222 WAS by which operators. They really want to make a "Still Needed" board f
Hello to all the 222 ops interested in this. I strongly endorse Dave's thoughts on the shipping. I have done several large expeditions, as most already know, and the costs are larger than most folk
Bill-ND0B has set up a group for the 222 nuts on groups.io.....that reflector has the Reply To setting as the whole group. He believes that EVERY reflector on groups.io must be setup that way. It i
After some chatter about 222 WAS, Jay-N1AV asked if an email reflector would be helpful. I suppose that I should have acted instantly to create such a reflector. However, I wanted to see if others
Hello All....I received 7 emails asking me to set up a new 222 group for those interested in 222 activity. I received none that said "leave it alone"....unless you want to count Bill's post. SO, I s
Hello to all our friends in the VHF / WSJT world from the K5QE contest team....K5QE will be operating in the CQ WW VHF Contest and would really appreciate any contacts that we can make via MSK144, FT
Hello everyone....as most of you know by now, Gary-KB8RQ is a silent key. His wife, Barbara, and son, Kent-N8CUT have sold the property and a new family has moved in. I met them and they are great