Re: Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, less than 24 hours away!

2012-06-15 Thread w7dra
that is in the 833a class. i am not fooling, this might be the way if the future in contesting. points would be rigged to give the 6V6 more than the 211 class etc etc maybe part of the unlimited class? if u only need a QRP power to work someone, get more points. mike w7dra

Re: Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, less than 24 hours away!

2012-06-15 Thread Bill Cromwell
Hi, Those intellicast pages are new for me and I looked at them and strikestar. According to them I don't have much chance of doing anything at all with my modest station. But I am going to try *anyway*. My transmitter doesn't care about local noise so it's down to whether I can somehow sort out s

Re: Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, less than 24 hours away!

2012-06-15 Thread Sam Morgan
Nice one Bill, I had found intellicast but not that part of their site once we get into the 'real time' question of where the storms are limiting folks reception abilities this site works pretty well: http://www.strikestarus.com/ GB & 73 K5OAI Sam Morgan On 6/15/2012 9:23 PM, Bill Tippett wrote

Re: Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, less than 24 hours away!

2012-06-15 Thread Herb Schoenbohm
Mike! I would like to enter with one of those so called Fish Beacons as they seem to get out better than I do much of the time and with the QRP designation they would be hard to beat. I have a huge salt pond about 900 feet from the house were I could float some. They would just transmit my c

Re: Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, less than 24 hours away!

2012-06-15 Thread Mike Waters
Here's the page that I regularly look at to determine whether I want to go listen on 160 or 80: http://www.intellicast.com/Storm/Severe/Lightning.aspx And if I want to know if a specific DX location has lightning (could someone there hear me?), I look at http://wwlln.net/TOGA_network_global_maps.h

Re: Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, less than 24 hours away!

2012-06-15 Thread Sam Morgan
http://www.intellicast.com/National/Surface/Forecast48.aspx GB & 73 K5OAI Sam Morgan On 6/15/2012 9:18 PM, Sam Morgan wrote: > the closest I have found is this *STATIC* map forecast > for 48 hours out that's 8pm Sat. night > > what I was hoping for was a map similar to this > that was moving thr

Re: Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, less than 24 hours away!

2012-06-15 Thread Bill Tippett
K5OAI wrote: slightly OT I'm looking for a link to a web site that will show me a continuous map covering the time from now through when the Stew Perry is over. Very much On Topic IMHO...I often do the same before 160 contests. The following gives you 16 frames of forecast both for the

Re: Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, less than 24 hours away!

2012-06-15 Thread Sam Morgan
the closest I have found is this *STATIC* map forecast for 48 hours out that's 8pm Sat. night what I was hoping for was a map similar to this that was moving through time (scrolling) from now through Sunday 1500z you have seen radar maps that show the last 4-8 hours to now I'm looking for a forec

Re: Topband: 9M0L

2012-06-15 Thread Herb Schoenbohm
The Spratly Islands are claimed by several countries. The appropriate call sign would be by the country that issues the license for that entity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands_dispute Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ On 6/15/2012 7:09 PM, all...@dejazzd.com wrote: > I now that 9M0L is

Re: Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, less than 24 hours away!

2012-06-15 Thread w7dra
there should be a stew class that has three powers - 6V6, 211, 833a if you can't work 'em with the 6V6, go up to the 211, etc etc and mark each qso accordingl;y that should keep the score keepers busy mike w7dra On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:22:16 -0500 Sam Morgan writes: > slightly OT > I'm

Re: Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, less than 24 hours away!

2012-06-15 Thread Sam Morgan
slightly OT I'm looking for a link to a web site that will show me a continuous map covering the time from now through when the Stew Perry is over. Why? I'm trying to decide whither to run QRP or LOW power my decision will be determined by what the map shows as far as what part of the states are p

Topband: 9M0L

2012-06-15 Thread allan1
I now that 9M0L is The Spratly Isands, but is that the same Spratly Islands as "1S"> Thanks, Allan W2TN ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK

Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, less than 24 hours away!

2012-06-15 Thread Brian Moran
160meters. 14 operating hours. Starts at 1500z tomorrow. http://jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html -Brian N9ADG ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK