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 M
Hello everyone...I am trying to get in touch with Frank-W6BBS. His published email address at arrl.net bounces. Can anyone help me with a working email address?? Thanks... 73 Marshall K5QE _______
Hello all....I have read all the comments carefully. Some I like and some I hate. I think that is pretty normal for all of us. However, I want to make a point that has only been touched on by one o
Hello everyone....Switching to FT4 sounds great, except that the "casual contesters" are not there. They seem to be welded to FT8 and will not move. I have often listened on 50.318 during the conte
On 3/19/2021 7:43 PM, Marshall-K5QE wrote: Hello Mr. Duffey(no call)....Maybe we should just ask other top operators how they feel about this. To me, it FEELS like we are making a lot less 6M contac
Hello Gerry....In our area, I have been pushing the following idea: Stations should check for SSB or CW at the top and bottom of the hour. IF some Es exists then work it!! ... as long as possible.
Hello Tom and everyone else interested in VHF contesting.... We need a reflector that can be used for contesting in real time. The PingJockey reflector is great for meteor scatter and such. Maybe s
I talked to Dan-N5TM the Slack guru....he says there is an E-skip channel there right now. We could certainly use that IF everyone would actually use it....The idea is if you hear an Es opening, pos
Hello to everyone....I have a friend that is looking for a TE Systems 1452G 2M amplifier. If you have one that is in good shape and you might part with it, please let me know....along with your pric
Hello All....As you probably know, I have a large VHF contest station in East Texas, outside Hemphill. I have operated every VHF contest since 2004, as well as all the CQ WW VHF contests. I have wa
Hello to all EME ops....this year, Team K5QE will be operating in the ARRL EME contest. We will be running: 6M.....rising moon only for about 1 hour. I hope to work a few of the big stations in the
Hello to all VHF ops....I have 5 stations all using the 28MHz IF frequency. In the Sept contest, when everyone was on FT8, the IF radios were all on 28.174MHz.....AAAAAAaaaaaaaRGH! We try very hard
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
Hello all...we used 1296 this time in the Jan VHF contest. We run Limited Multi, so in the past, we had a line in the Cabrillo file that looks like this: CATEGORY-BAND: 6M 2M 222 432. Now, should we
Hello to our VHF friends....here is my generator story. I have a Honda 2000i and it is a great little genset. It is quiet RF wise, and runs for a long time on a tank of fuel. Also, there are "exte
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....I am in desperate need of a BIG_RAS HR rotator. I am aware of the distributor in Alberta Canada and I am talking to them. However, if anyone has one or knows where I can get one qu
Hello to all VHFers....the original post saying that Jimmie Long-W4ZRZ has become a silent key is NOT true. I just spoke at length with Chris Long(wife) and he has not passed away. If you have cross
As most EME ops know, Peter-KA6U has been on a "Grand Tour" of the US states. He has operated on 1296, 432, 222, and 2M EME from 45 states in the US(maybe more, I lost count). He has been instrumen
Hello to everyone.. Great post from Dave up there in the Northeast about his 220 to work. I am happy to see people with this kind of information available. The ARLVHF contest is this weekend so there