Just to make sure we are all speaking of the same cable, RG-400/u is a Teflon 0.195" diam (RG-58 class) cable with two shields and a stranded center while LMR400 is a 0.405" diam (RG-8 class) cable w
Pete: Zack's advice is good, but if you worked the same station from both locations, you may only count it once. --Mike, WV2ZOW _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing l
Interesting. Some of the digital voice modes have a data sub channel, so if one passes the exchange via microphone and speaker, its phone, but, at the same time, the exchange can be passed on the dat
Sean: I used to manage a a former microwave antenna site owned by SNET in Brooklyn CT (near intersection of US 6 and I 395) Nice site, good shot SW. It is private property, now managed by AT&T. I sus
VHF and up contests differ from almost all other contests in that there is only goal -- make the contact. Can't get through on SSB? Switch to CW. Mixed mode contact -- allowed. Should that point valu
Not familiar with the Johnson, but the Henry was quite an interesting amp. It had separate inputs and outputs for 6 and 2, so there was no switching. One could also tune it for both bands so band swi
While discussing portable 6 meter antennas, does anyone recall the 2 element Telrex (at least I think it was a Telrex). It was a conical style, like a TV antenna, and all the elements were split. Whe
I've used these as well. Since they are a high pass and low pass filter in one box, the load on the unused port isn't really necessary. They work great to isolate bands. Very low loss. --Mike, WV2ZOW
Ron: Couldn't you have used a narrow filter to filter out the strong station? Sure-- you would miss some of the passband, but you could move around with each call. Also, I didn't think the east/west
Jay: We are only secondary to authorized primary users. A story: Back in the late 1970s, our group operated a 440 repeater in Northern New Jersey. One day, this really raucous buzz that varied in str
Jay: The argument that SSB is so much faster than FT8/4 and stations should switch to SSB when the band is open is not universally true. It is if you are the station running guys on a specific freque
While Ft-8 is slower than ssb, there was plenty of time to work everyone. _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesti