I used RC2 and now, RC3 and there's no way in this software to make FT8 QSO's automatically. I don't get why so many people think it is a QSO machine that you let it go and it finds and makes QSO's f
I have started a series of CQ and gotten bites but they do not complete. To verify this, I just now called CQ with FT8 and I got a reply from SM7OYP but my software did not reply. It will not reply u
Folks, I'm somewhat on the fence regarding resolution to RFI I have thanks to AMTRAK and some RFI coming to the south of me. I live at the end of a dead end. There is a salt marsh behind me & 1 mile
Jeff, Thanks for the note. I got to thinking and just checked my log. VE1ZZ was my first DX on 160 and my 2nd 160 QSO; this on July 8, 1992. Though I'd been a ham 13 years, I'd never been on 160 til
Hi Trevor, I'm in Connecticut. I didn't compete much, I was too busy otherwise this weekend. I ran full power to give out some Q's on 160. I heard many more EU than I could get to hear me. Some stati
To me, the issue comes down to contained or not contained when it comes to signals on the bands. We're already contained by the limits of the band itself so there's effectively a finite space for eve
Perhaps your solution might be a sloper, using the radial bed, instead of another INV-L? I used to have an INV-L at the edge of a salt marsh in Connecticut, with 1/2 the radials on the marsh & the re
To me, the reality is FT8 is no matter how someone spins it, using a tiny part of the spectrum. A reality is few there are using power with FT8, my Cook Island contact with FT8 was with something lik
I'm just not getting the results I had when the 160M antenna was put up some 7-8 years ago, not as good as last year either. I tried running QRP on 160 this evening, lots of pre-contest activity and
This is the first major contest that I have taken part in a while, at least to the extent I actually put a real effort into it. Its taken a bit to get back in the game after my friend Pat became a SK
I just installed a replacement wire for the 160 sloper. I made it 129' as was the earlier one that came down in the winds. I have to use a spud gun to get fishing line over the tree tops and where th
George, Jim and all those who sent wonderful direct to me replies on this; It's touching to ask a question and get such helpful replies from so many. I appreciate it. The long and short of what I see
It is always especially sad when one of our own passes. 73 OM, de KA1J _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Now that I have both a HI-Z circle 8 & a triangular array, along with the K3s, I can hear most stations coming in around here. About the only thing that will help me Rx wise at this time would be a b
I did not see the article but I had just that in the 90's. I had moved from a condo where I explored copper pipe and shortened octagon loops. Remembering my experimenting when the now Ex & I moved to
Jose, Thank you for the new one on 160. Your signals were very strong at 00:05Z in CT, some QSB but Q5. Have fun! 73, Gary KA1J _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.co
My 2 cents (& my 2 cents are surely worth more to me than anyone else). this is a licensed sport, I see it in some ways like fishing which is also a licensed sport; some catch and keep, some catch an