What troubles me about this is that the date for this contest was (and apparently still is) posted for this year. http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Contest%20Calendar/2016%20Contest%20Calendar.pdf That
Please see below: 73 Mark S VE7AFZ Sent from my iPhone That may be but a scheduled UHF contest in August of 2016 is not going to happen. I consider that particular occurrence of that event has now be
Sorry these contests are all starting to seem the same. Ran the full setup on the Saturday during the UHF contest last year, I ran a smaller setup on the second day. I seem to recall the UHF contest
Here are some draft comments re the "new" UHF contest proposal that I am happy to share with the list before pass my final comments onto the ARRL. My only real issue with the "old" UHF contest rules
These comments make some sense to me. I've just started to get involved in meteor scatter and EME and I was contemplating a portable 432 EME effort during the UHF contest at some point. Being able to
I'm fine with keeping 222 in the "UHF" contest. Having a contest without 50 and 144 MHz is nice IMHO and it gives me more time to focus on the higher bands. Activity on 222 is so light that I believe
Hi Patrick. Yes I have briefly considered this in the past. My preferred approach would be to use the SSID field (which IIRC can be up 31 or 32 characters long ? but should be long enough for a basic
If anyone in the vicinity of CN89 wants to try JT65 (or other digi modes) on 432 over the next few weeks let me know. Have 21 elements, LNA at the antenna and 70 watts or so at the antenna. If anyone
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Hi. My main focus during this contest will be visiting CO80 on Saturday. Expect to be setup in CO80 from the contest start until approx 7pm pst or so. I am planning on operating from the same site in
Hi. My experiences trying to directly charge (via DC) extra batteries from automotive electrical systems during my amateur radio activities have not been very favourable over the last 10 years or so.
Hi does anyone have any recent experience buying generic PL 259 style crimp connectors for RG 400 style cable and if so could they share their vendor contract info with me ? My last few batches of ge
Thanks Jeff. I think your answer summarized the issue I am having. I'm beginning to wonder if the prior batches of connectors that "worked" may have been slightly over sized or perhaps as you mention
Thanks Chet. At this point (and with some help from the vendor) I've more or less concluded that the RG400 centre conductor is expanding a small amount when I strip the cable. I've got a new batch of
Thanks Mike. Yes I am referring to the RG 400 style cable. As a side note I did work out a fairly consistent process to strip the centre conductor while preventing it from expanding. I found if I cut
Hi, I've used the 105 thru 1300 MHz Create log periodic antenna on occasion and it seems to work as I would expect it to. It is a handy multi band rover / portable antenna for me and combined with a
I've used a Comet CF 4160 for a similar purpose with an Icom 706 MkiiG. I didn't experience any issues. (The only caveat I'll mention is that I almost exclusively use double shielded patch cords in m
The main effort will be on 6M SSB / CW and I will have a three element beam and approx 300 watts. I expect to be on either 50.125 or 50.145 Hope we get some band openings. If anyone else is planning
Does any one know what the date is for the Jan 2017 ARRL VHF contest ? I am trying to plan some other commitments so I can block out time for this contest and from what I can see the ARRL contest cal
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