Dave, you need to look at the BIG picture here. Be happy you live in or near the "Sprint corridor" and actually have access to enough activity to make it through the first hour. Lamenting about not r
Anybody in western AL want to run a meteor scatter sked on 2M during the upcoming Quadrantids shower ? Probably be best if you have some power since we're taking about >1200 miles. -W9RM DM58 CO Keit
When the FT8 bug infected everyone a few years back, I retuned 2 original 6M7's high enough to be 1.5:1 at 50.313 by moving the t-match shorting bars as far outboard as they would go. Yes, the origin
I think it's humorous that a lot of folks still think there is a HIGH POWER category as a subset of the 3 BAND class. But, it brings up a question. I, personally, would be all over a category like 3
I have the opposite problem. When I TX on 2, it overloads and quiets the 6M radio. I have a 2M stub filter on the 6M receive line for other purposes, which probably gives me 10-15 dB of extra rejecti
Re: Distance based scoring - how's this going to work when guys are routinely using EME to pad their mults on 2 and 432 ?? Are we talking about sending EME Qs in VHF contests back to where they belon
After further thought, I'm withdrawing my proposal for a separate high power sub-category -W9RM Keith J Morehouse Managing Partner Calmesa Partners G.P. Olathe, CO ___________________________________
Since that's the case Chet, I assume I'll hear you running 'em on SSB in June, the 1st time signals on the FT8 channel get loud ? In my opinion, if it's a contest, 6M signals are loud and one is CQin
I'm glad we're on the same page. That's what I wanted to hear ! Now, you and I are united and hopefully we'll be able to pull more activity back to SSB during CONTESTS where, during CONTESTS, rate is
Alex, it's my opinion one of the reasons we even have to deal with this issue is that the 'movers and shakers' of the contest world are HFcentric. Except for one contest (10M test) almost every other
Zack, I haven't yet found a WSJT mode that could handle AU well (actually, at all..). Possibly the NEW (...another one ??) Q65 mode could work on 6M since it's supposed to be relatively immune to dop
We don't dislike FT8, Jim. We like it when it's used properly in contesting. When signals are loud and the FT8 'channel' is overloaded with activity and there's not a SINGLE signal below 50.300 and i
.. George, you've pretty much read my mind and put my exact thoughts into words. -W9RM Keith Morehouse via MotoG _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesti
..guess it must be an east coast thing. All summer, both during and outside the June contest, I could see 50.313 wall-to-wall with LOUD (I'm talking over S9) signals with not a single one between 50.
** I also think it healthy to have these discussions about mode selections, but it does no one any good to exaggerate the issues and solutions. In most cases data, or common sense, is available to su
120/hr before or after you take into account all the 'not in log' dings you're going to get hit with ?? -W9RM Keith Morehouse via MotoG _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting m
I've made this point before, but it's worth repeating. If you're not seriously contesting, run whatever mode makes you happy. If you think you are seriously contesting and you stay on FT8 or what-hav
PEOPLE - PLEASE stop using RR73 when running meteor scatter. DO NOT assume the other guy will hear your ONE RR73 TX on meteors !!! Use RRR and 73 (optional) PLEASE !!! -W9RM Keith J Morehouse Managin
So, being a dumb American and knowing nothing about the IARU R1 contests, can I infer they have seperated out MGM (machine genertaed modes) and CW/SSB as seperate contests ? Unfortunately, I think if
I use an old DEMI transverter - there's all sorts of them out there. A new transverter from Q5signal is $500 for the 25W version. -W9RM Keith Morehouse via MotoG _____________________________________