Greetings Unless you plan of using Ping Jockey to coordinate MS contact during the upcoming CQ VHF contest, you can just skip this post. I greatly appreciate that CQ is willing to facilitate meteor s
If the contest started Friday afternoon, it's unlikely I would ever go out on Friday. I'm a single op rover and thus have to put up/take down antennas without help. This is not something I can do in
Greetings West Coast I'll be operating the VHF contest from my QTH in CM97ag. Have 6, 2, 223.5, and 432. Sat night and Sun morning I'll be on 6M FSK-441 looking for QSOs. Unfortunately I have a bad n
Hi Alex I also have an A270-10S but have been fairly pleased with the antenna. Now, I agree, it not an antenna for serious VHF/UHF work. I use it in my rover station. I've also run some basic test to
Sorry but I couldn't figure it out either. So if you get a direct reply please post. I tried three times to submit a unlimited rover in January before giving up and leaving it a check log. The last t
In answer to Marshall's question regarding why LOTW will not accept the grid contained in the log, I suspect it's a simple matter of priority. Since neither Cabrillo or ADIF define a "from grid" fiel
I don't see any reason to dis-allow the use of HF type mixed mode operation. If our intent is to encourage HF contesters to try 6M why discourage the use of CW? Maybe only one point for both CW and p
My favorite, by far, was a 5894. 73, Tom K6EU _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/vhfc
Hi Dwight Welcome to the world of 6M. I recommend 50.276 as a frequency for 6M JT65/JT9. It's the only freq you are likely to make a random digital mode QSO on 6M. The rest almost always require coor
Hi Steve Excellent question. Can't speak for others, but I plan on using WSJT-X during the contest. WSJT-10 will be on the PC however in case of need A question for the group. Is it time to move the
Correct, LOTW will not match a QSO if one of you uploads with the /R and the other station does not. I upload with a separate certificate using /R. About once a year I do a search for contacts with u
Hi Mark I'm also curious about using non MS modes during a contest. I doubt blind CQing on QRA64 would be very productive. Posting on PJ and then CQing might work. 73, Tom K6EU ______________________
I also found Keith's comment re FT8 vs CW surprising. This has certainly not been my experience. Altho the FT8 decoder in rc2 is not as good as JT65's, it's a lot better than my ears. I've seem multi
Wish I had the problem of not being able to find a spot for FT8 due to all the 2M activity. Lots of open unused freqs in Northern CA. We have also kinda settled on 144.174 however. 73, Tom K6EU _____
The 8 pin connector on the pig-tail is for CAT or a Tuner, determined by an internal jumper. The six pin is what you use for audio. At least that's the way mine works. 73, Tom K6EU __________________