As one of those "VHF rookies" I thought I would comment. I have been active in HF contests for a long time (licensed 1986) but entered my first VHF contest in 2014 (June VHF). I operated as qrp/porta
Steve, Listen for me in EM53ij. QRP/portable/no internet. I am planning to be on 50/144/222/432 this year. Tor N4OGW _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcont
Trlog for Linux: http://www.kkn.net/trlinux/index.shtml TorN4OGW Thanks all ... I knew of RoverLog but deliberately did not mention it to see if there were other suggestions. I guess that sums it
I tried the cell SMS tweet-to-spot function a few times, but I don't think self-spotting makes much difference for a qrp/portable in a low VHF activity region (EM53). I also tried to find someone on
Alex, You have a lot of activity compared to other areas of the country! Here I didn't work or ever hear a single station in my own grid (EM53). Several adjacent grids had no activity either. I used
Since you have many devices which seem to emitting noise, maybe you have some other device on the AC line that is emitting the noise, and it is being passed through the UPS and power strip? I have ne
Yes, trees do make a difference on the higher bands. My qth is surrounded by 100' pines plus various lower trees. While I don't think it hurts too much on HF, cell phone service is noticeably weaker
I don't have a lot of experience yet operating MS, but the scattering geometry is pretty simple- you are scattering from meteor trails that are maybe 100 km above the ground. If you plug in 100km as
For portable stations it is easy to make your yagis simple to switch between horizontal and vertical polarization. For example, I made my yagis with the booms from 1" square aluminum. The boom/mast
Thanks for posting this. I have one of these 222 transverters and have used it for qrp portable. I bought just the bare board and assembled the rest myself. Some more comments: 1. Mine was also 13 KH
I have the drive pot all the way up Sure- I'll check it tonight and let you know. Tor N4OGW _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com ht
I have used this app (for Android) when operating portable: http://ea4eoz.blogspot.com/p/hamgps.html Besides your location it gives the bearing to a target grid. TorN4OGW Hi. I'm just curious how ot
ADIF does have a way to specify your grid square (since version 2), it is the tag MY_GRIDSQUARE. See http://www.adif.org/adif227.htm http://www.adif.org/307/ADIF_307.htm#QSO_Field_MY_GRIDSQUARE Tor N
Multi-mode works in a big HF contest where there are lots of people on and also different modes are forced to use different frequencies by license regulations. On VHF+ it would just lead to manufactu
The problem with FT8 as it is currently used is not just about speed of qsos either- having ALL FT8 (or JT65) activity piled on one 2.7 KHz channel makes it much harder to work weak signals. Because
It depends on what your site is like but another option to get some height is to hang a 50 MHz yagi from a tree. See photo here for an example: http://www.arrl.org/soapbox/view/8930 Tor N4OGW _______
Keep in mind that if you are running 100 W and you are copying 1500 W stations at -15 dB, there is little chance that you can work them since they have ~10 dB more power. That was probably why K5QE c
I downloaded the ARRL June VHF rules PDF for 2016, 2017, and 2018 (thanks to https://archive.org/ ). The rules did indeed change between 2016 and 2017. In 2016 the following was written regarding sin
There is a huge difference between "only one transmitted signal at any given time" and "only one signal per band". The change to one signal per band in 2015 even for single ops was well publicized, s
I have had a 9 element 2M LFA up for a few years and it has worked great. Mine is home built however and not MFJ. I used plastic electric fence insulators to mount the elements above the boom. TorN4O