I have an SDR-iQ tapped to my 910h IF, and it is a HUGE help during Eskip and
Tropo openings, and contests!
73, Drew KO4MA
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> On Jul 23, 2014, at 7:04 PM, Ken Alexander <k.alexander@rogers.com> wrote:
>
> I shut down my 2m transceiver on Sunday morning, tired of endlessly tuning up
> and down the dial for 1 or 2 contacts. I hooked up the yagi to my Funcube
> Dongle Pro+ SDR receiver and kept an eye on 2m that way. What a difference!
> We nabbed several of the casual call-a-few-CQs-then-go-mow-the-lawn types
> that way. I'd hear one, disconnect the antenna and pass it to VE3EG (our 6m
> op) and call out the frequency. He'd connect it to his FT-857D and make the
> contact. It was clumsy but effective. I'm sure we would have missed these
> guys because they weren't "regulars" and didn't stay around after working us
> if no one else called them.
>
> This convinced me that SDR is the way to go in a VHF contest...you can
> monitor a big chunk of the band and miss nothing. I am hoping to begin
> roving in the September contest and will be using my Flex-1500 on 6m and 432
> (with an Elecraft XV432 transverter, just ordered) and an old Kenwood TR-9130
> on 2m.
>
> The Funcube Dongle Pro+ is no slouch on 2m. The Funcube kept pace with the
> 857D with the same antenna, and its built-in 2m bandpass filter kept
> everything clean even when he was transmitting on 6m at 100W. The antennas
> were on the same mast, about 3 ft apart.
>
> 73,
>
> Ken Alexander
> VE3HLS
>
>
>
>> On 2014-07-23 4:04 PM, Chet S wrote:
>> I use the N1MM logger. In addition to the colored prompts that show up in
>> the main window to signal you that you need someone's contact or grid on
>> another band, there is a multiplier window that will display a map of the
>> grids worked on the band that you are currently using. That keeps you from
>> missing an adjacent grid, likely because you had not aimed that way enough.
>> Often then CQing that way will get it and others in that direction.
>>
>> And, in the grid map window, a right button mouse click on a grid square
>> will display a list of calls worked in that grid.
>>
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