Interesting reading about other parts of the country. Let me tell you about what happens in Minnesota and a bit of Wisconsin. Imagine a city like Minneapolis/St Paul. There are a few fixed stations o
I've announced this in Wisconsin and Minnesota and thought I'd get the word out a bit more widely. Still have to load the antennas this morning and track down the 6m rig. Murphy permitting, I'll be o
Hi James and all: Let me opine for a bit on distance based scoring. I generally like the idea of distance based scoring because we generally consider distance to be the biggest barrier needing conque
I LOVE the 30 QSO limit AND the 50% limit and hope they get adopted. I like Mike and compete against him in this division. I'm glad he's out there. But I never get close to 30 Q's with the same rover
Well, I liked Frank's writing. I thought it was funny and creative. I thought it helped us look at our situation in humorous light. More interesting reading than some of the stuff on here. Bruce Rich
Since this list is about VHF contesting, I thought I'd share some graphics I whipped up concerning my activity in the recent UHF contest. http://w9fz.com/ham/w9fzuhf09.html Bigger .jpgs behind each i
Midwest Mania! is a special effort to increase activity and fun across the Great Plains during the Sept VHF Contest. The Midwest Division encompasses IA, MO, KS, and NE. Throw in OK, SD, and eastern
charset="iso-8859-1"; visited My question is posed to Jim, but any of you are free to supply an answer. I went to the packroving website. You guys have been smoking me score wise ever since you star
I know, you're really looking for XVERTERS that work with your current rigs. I'm using an old MMT 222-28 xverter and a HR-2600 10m IF rig. That drives a Mirage brick to 120w. But I'm about to replace
Only a six grid rove this time in order to accommodate a number of things--one of which is the Vikes game on Sunday evening. Much warmer weather --even if not very nice--this year over the psst few.
I've missed most of the thread, but I have to bring up: For the right person/station, a Yeasu FT-897 should be considered. You get 100w on 6 and 2, I forget how much on 432. And if you follow the two
For CQ-VHF, I've picked a six grid rove that I hope will help with some needed grids (regionally). A couple of the grids will be fairly common but I hope the QSO volume helps there. I've updated the
For the third year in a row, we hope to have a bang-up Sept VHF contest in the Great Plains. IA, MO, KS, and NE are Midwest Div. For the purposes of Midwest Mania! we add OK, SD, and CO. Website is a
I've spent the last 3 days researching my spots. Pretty easy in flat terrain! W9FZ/R ABCD9EFI Beams and bricks CQ'ing 144.200 carrying to 144.225 Carrying to 50.155 if clear. Periodically checking 14
Here in Badger Contesters-land (WI/IL) we tend to use 146.55 and 146.58 the most. We steer new folks to those freqs to get started. I suppose 146.49 and 146.46 would be the next two to offer. And I'v
Bruce and Janice (KA9VVQ) will be activating 8 grids during the CQWW-VHF 6m primarily on 50.190 2m primarily on 144.230 We will be chirping APRS on w9fz-15 Look at: http://aprs.fi/?call=w9fz-15 Our s
We most certainly discuss in the hospitality suite. At best, we'd have a motion at our biz meeting on Sat afternoon. On way to Thur eve entertainment at CSVHFS Conference 73 Bruce W9FZ Sent from my l
I know most of you who are on Stanford VHF reflector have already seen this. If you are a VHF/UHF weak-signal op from North Texas northward to southern Manitoba or from the Rockies Front Range eastwa
W9FZ/R Roving the 98th Meridian from the TX/OK border northward through OK to South Central KS. CQ'ing on 144.225 and 50.190 Bands: 6,2,222,432,902,1296,2304, and 10GHz Tentative locations and times
Fixed and rover stations slowly checked in over the past week and the website is updated with all reported activity. http://w9fz.com/midwestmania13/ W9FZ/R Updated!! Roving the 98th Meridian from the