This June's contest provided (at least on Sunday in this area) an outstanding example of what can happen when 6m is good. Practically the only stations to be heard on 2m were multi-ops. Everyone else
Having discovered I could operate this contest (contrary to my expectations) I don't really have all my ducks in a row this time, but I plan to be out roving as follows: Saturday 1800-2030Z FN03bi 23
The Ontario VHF Association presents our annual get-together at Humber College North Campus in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada. ( 205 Humber College Blvd. Toronto, Ontario M9W 5L7 ) on Saturday September
As to whether it is worthwhile doing the conversion depends mostly on whether you prefer to spend time or money to get a 10 GHz rig. Both the White Boxes and DEMI or DB6NT transverters work fine. The
For antennas that stay up while roving, split-ring lock washers and electrical tape over the ends of the U-bolts can help with not losing hardware to vibration. For antennas that are raised and lower
I'll be out roving this weekend in the ARRL June VHF QSO Party as follows (some booked-up sked periods are not shown). Times in UTC. Saturday (local time) 1930-2210 FN14ba 2255-2325 FN13ax (OR bx) (d
Murray, VE3NPB, and I plan to operate in the CQ WW VHF Contest from the southwestern part of fairly rare grid FN05 this weekend. We'll be running somewhere between 50 and 150 watts on 2m, and 100 wat
I will be out roving again tomorrow and Sunday with gear for all bands 222 MHz-24 GHz and possibly laser (though 5.7 GHz is very QRP). No FM gear below 1.2 GHz. Here is my plan, though it may be mo
Gene: In this area we've certainly observed that sort of thing on the microwave bands (especially 10 GHz, but as low as 1296) where both stations are experiencing good tropo, but the direct path betw
I'll be out roving this weekend in the ARRL September VHF QSO Party as follows (some booked-up sked periods are not shown). Times in UTC. Saturday (local time) 1930-2130 FN14ba (Colborne) 2200-0030 F
Just to let you know...despite the issues I have had with RFI and the K2/XV222 combination, it is, for the most part, working well for me (a big improvement over my old, much bigger, 2 watt homebrew
Dave: I think the FT-290R (original model, not the RII) was the inspiration for the Kuhne/DB6NT transverters using this control method. Five of my mostly homebrew microwave transverters use it too -
I see that the SBMS website lists two different weekends for this year's contest. Can someone enlighten me as to which is the correct one ? See http://www.ham-radio.com/sbms/club_test/2ghz_up_test.ht
WA6CGR has confirmed to me that the dates in the PDF file on the SBMS website are the correct ones...i.e. May 1-2. This is NOT what it says in QST apparently. 73, Steve VE3SMA _______________________
I plan to be out roving again next weekend. I'll have gear for 50 MHz - 24 GHz (plus laser) with me, all quite low power, but from quite good locations, mostly. Essentially the same gear as last year
Dave I did look briefly at this subject a few years ago....no measurements, just some simplistic analysis along the lines of what W2PV did much earlier for HF. This work was published in the 2004 Cen
Excellent summary, Bill. That is entirely in agreement with the calculations I was doing back in 2004. I figured that, from a contest perspective, if limited to a single antenna it was probably bette
Murray, VE3NPB, and I intend to operate as a multi-operator station under my callsign from moderately rare grid FN05 (FN05ce to be exact, about 100 miles almost due north of Toronto) during the CQ Wo
I will be out roving again this Saturday and Sunday with gear for all bands 222 MHz-24 GHz and laser (though 5.7 GHz is very QRP). No FM gear below 1.2 GHz. Here is my plan, though it may be subject
It looks like a good bunch of us will be on Lake Erie on Saturday. The following have announced their intention to be somewhere on the north side of the lake in EN82/EN92/FN02: VE3FHM VE3HHT VE3KH VE