Hello to all my fellow contesters....I am just about caught up after the Jan contest...still looking for all that lost sleep. I have read all of the "gloom and doom" posts about FT8. What we contest
Perhaps some "VHF types" could behave less like "HF newbies" and learn to just send an RRR message when that happens. That will advance the other side to the 73 message. You already got their grid on
Author: Steve Kavanagh via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 03:34:27 +0000 (UTC)
I thought I'd add my comments... This time I was operating from a very modest station in terms of antennas (home!). Having not got my antennas sorted out after moving, I had an HF inverted vee on 6m,
Hello Alex....the "rules" for what constitutes a proper VHF contact have been set for over 50 years. No less than Ed Tilton-W1HDQ was the person involved in the very early days. A proper VHF contac
I think a lot of old VHFers were forced to kluge together setups for FT8 when they realized there was much less SSB activity and were taken by surprise by the "noise" on 313. With zero experience wit
Author: Terry Signature <terry@directivesystems.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 17:35:09 -0500
Marshall is right on with his comments. Grids have been used now since the mid 80's and anyone getting on VHF needs to become very comfortable using them EVERY QSO!! As far as FT8 and the MSK derivat
Ditto. Ken KA2LIM --Original Message-- From: VHFcontesting [mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Terry Signature Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2018 5:35 PM To: Al Wells Cc: vhfcontes
My understanding is that for a QSO to be valid, each station must send and acknowledge receipt of two pieces of information. One is the callsign. The other can be anything. We are used to "59(9)" in
Author: Pete K0BAK via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:17:53 +0000 (UTC)
Zack, not sure what point you're making in the context of this discussion. Yes, contests and other events can require different information be exchanged. And yes, generally if "anything" is exchanged
Hi Zack and all.....On VHF, you must exchange(both ways) both calls, a signal report of some kind(this is Zack's piece of information) and a Roger. I believe that Zack's post is telling us that the