I just laid down a BOG and would like to evaluate its directivity. In
the absence of a calibrated signal source for real pattern measurements,
how do you go about this?
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73, Pete N4ZR
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Jim and Rick - SPOT ON with being off just slightlythat can make the
difference (well, in these contests that doesn't help, necessarily, for my QRP
peanut whistle)!
I think this whole zero beat discussion is interesting ('specially for those
who have to crank the receiver bandwidth down
Hey - keep those cards and letters acomin' people
I've received 26 logs so far which is two above the average so we're doing GOOD!
Lookin' forward to receiving more entries (I know of one being submitted via
snail mail) and having the results posted soon after the last date for
Hi Mike,
rate versus multipliers
five pointers versus two
what's a contester to do?
One of the lessons one should learn is to listen first, which seems to be an
eternal issue for many, and see what the run station is doing. If you're not in
the area that they are running, move on and come back
Hi All,
Well, for the life of me, I don't understand why anyone would get their shorts
in a such knots over the issue of zero beating...
The big advantage of CW over other modes that's been touted for years years
is its reduced bandwidth: if both stations are exactly on the same frequency,
You guys are awful hard on the folks who were off frequency, could not
hear , operating in the prescribed DX window etc. Everyone needs to
step back and consider the challenges that the 160 meter band poses. It
has what, 50 kHz of usable contest space (not usable band space) with
excursions
A few points on the zero beat issue:
Some rigs are difficult to zero beat. For example, my TS-440:
1) does not have a ZB function
2) uses a 800 Hz offset while I prefer to listen to a lower tone (600-700 Hz).
Until I started using fldigi with it's waterfall, I didn't even realize what
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From: Ken wa8...@gmail.com
Cc: topband@contesting.com
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL 160 conditions/zero beat
A few points on the zero beat issue:
Some rigs are difficult to zero beat. For example, my TS-440:
1) does not
I hear that Steve, KD1JV, (well known for his remarkable ATS and PFR
transceiver kits) MIGHT be convinced to kit the new DDS-based 160m QRP
transceiver he recently prototyped and used with good results in last
week's contests. With the exception of the DDS circuitry, such a kit would
use
These stations aren't crocodiles - many are in the
super station category and definitely have the ears to hear me. This
seems to be a matter of operating technique, not technology.
[...]
Last night I worked 19 of the 26 stations I called on the east coast. The
others should have been hearing
Your experience, Tree, was exactly what I saw, sans the fact I was QRP Hi Hi
I worked one AR, two IAs and one IL - that was the extent of my breaking
through to the east side of the U.S.
Had 57 Qs in two hours QRP - if I heard a west coast station, I worked 'em - a
couple of OKs and a KS or
It's pretty much demonstrated that there are a lot of people who are
tone deaf, that is, they simply cannot tell apart two tones of
different frequencies if they are somewhat near to one another.
This is an audible approximation of color blind. Since this does not
produce a problem in day-to-day
Hi All!
Thanks to K7RAT gang, got my beautiful plaque last friday! And thanks to
K1EP to support the Top score YL op
Hope I am not alone in this categorie...
See you in the 2011 edition!
73/88 de F8BPN, Mau
f8...@wanadoo.fr
http://ph-martin.pagesperso-orange.fr/f8bpn/index.htm
I'm flying back down to Curacao explicitly for the Stew this year, arriving
12/14 and departing 12/20. I've been wanting to operate the Stew from the
Signal Point PJ2T station since my first Curacao tip in 2002, but never had
the opportunity. This will be my 19th visit to the Signal Point station.
Hello from Bosnia,
i rcvd as well my plaque few days a go (this now my favorite one)
Tnx to K9DX for sponsoring and K7RAT crew for organising this superb event!
73s and cu soon
de E77DX/OE1EMS
Braco
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