Hi Everyone:
All of the members of VK9MA Mellish Reef DXpedition have arrived in Cairns.
Some of us have already been here for nearly a week in preparation. The
four-day boat journey starts on Tuesday. Current plans say we land on the reef
November 3, which is November 4 for us. We will strive
Guys and Gals the ARRL issued their answer to this in 2011. Yes that is
when the RTTY DXCC award had its name changed to DIGITAL. Beginning
in July of 2011 No more issuing of RTTTY awards. They are called Digital
from that date forward. In their ruling the ARRL said any new technology
digital w
I had never used baluns on any antennas for 45 years . . .
But about a year ago I made a couple of ferrite choke baluns . . . one for
my 160m dipole, one for my W3DZZ, just to see if made any difference to the
local noise (from electrical garbage) - the designs were recommended to me
by G3TZQ.
Mark,
It is not a matter of someone "not liking" a discussion but there should be
some reasonable conclusion at some point-and some of the topics could be
discussed ad infinitum such as this one. It is also not just a matter of
hitting the delete button-every time you check you phone for email
The "Delete" key is a wonderful thing. Just because you don't like a
discussion thread doesn't mean others feel the same way.Nobody is
forcing you to read anything you don't want to.
I've been contemplating both sides of this discussion, and others, whose
points I don't agree with, believ
Yes, a pennant antenna with a pre-amp could be a tremendous help. I live in a
densely populated suburb where everyone (including us) has all the latest
digital noisemakers. Without that set-up, the lower bands would be completely
useless to me. Also, add common mode chokes to both ends of th
Is there another more appropriate forum/reflector for discussions of different
modes and operating habits and history ?
A place to discuss personal beliefs ?
The below were just a few examples of the discussions filling up the topband
mailbox and my mail box this week and
seem to have little to
Having just done another weekend of Jamboree On The Air, I'd like to suggest
that presenting several modes at an event such as this is the way to go.
None of the scouts had any history of amateur radio and didn't know what to
expect, but they saw the wires we strung up and they had first hand
e
V26 seemed to be deaf to the whole west coast.
On 10/28/2017 7:31 AM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
Working V26 was a chore from Colorado. Even 75m was tough. Not fun.
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I have no problem with awards with lots of categories.
It is much easier today to work lots of countries on 160, because of
remote radio. Remote Radio is another great innovation for the hobby.
It also allows people that have limited space or live in restricted
areas to get on and play radio
Jay,
VERY nice construction work on your 475 kc gear!
I spent years getting paid to operate on 500 kc 12 hours per day. Glad
to see you folks persevered to transfer a portion of the 600 meter
band to the amateur radio service.
Shore stations had the real estate for effective antennas and ran
ple
I've taken the liberty of opening a new thread, which I probably should
have done before.
To Dan, AC6LA,
First let me also thank you for your civil replies. As you stated,
"Refreshing in this internet age".
I think I have a simple comparison to show the problem, using the 1/4 WL
Vertical (3
Roger,
It’s a rather myopic view to think that if the QSO is digital there no skills
involved. The QSO is a combination of engineering skills to design a
competitive station including effective antennas, knowing the propagation, and
actually showing up to make the QSO.
Let’s remember why digit
Working V26 was a chore from Colorado. Even 75m was tough. Not fun.
On 10/28/2017 3:48 AM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
Well, I spent a few hours on the CQ WW last night, trying to pick out DX
amongst all the strong European stations . . .
Didn't hear a single North American station ! (even though
Roger,
Do you work FT8? Have you attempted to work any DX on FT8? It takes
some skill.
There are different skillsets required. I could argue it takes little
skill to buy a 10kw amplifier a remote radio membership and use remote
receivers all over the world takes little skill too.
Please
Ed I used to have half sloper for more than 10 years and it was working
quite well but a few
years ago I tried shunt feed the same tower ( 21m with big yagi on the
top) and the difference
was 1-2 S favouring shunt fed tower ( I was making tests with far DX
stations).
I have built up a simple switch box to use on 160m which reduces the QRN a bit
on the band so that I can see the weaker stations out there. My noise level is
usually s9 and am going to try a 1:1 current balun at the antenna feed point
which is a 45mm dia 6m high pole bottom fed. I have about 15
Why not try a Half Sloper. Your tall crank up would work well with that...
Take Coax up inside the tower and then run the braid to ground at the top of
the tower and a 1/4 wave wire +/- off to one side at about 45 degrees.
It will make the whole system work. You might have to cut or lengthen
I worked a couple EU stations from NC and heard a few more on 160M. TK5R
(I think that was the call as I'm not at the radio computer) was the
strongest I heard and worked. Only a half sloper (top is up about 50
feet) here (the RX antenna is down).
73, Larry W6NWS
On 10/28/2017 6:40 AM, Michae
The point is that we are all unique.
Everyone does their own thing and they enjoy it.
We can never change that and that is just part of being human.
The entire point is, they are doing something with ham radio.
Asking them to change is like asking you to START doing a contest a
repeater. It i
Hi Steve,
Thank you for your email.
There are many real and/or perceived unfair situations in hamradio. I
don't think this issue can be resolved without 'upsetting' one group or
another.
The successful SSB operator will continue to 'shine' in the DXCC Phone
section. The CW in the CW section
I worked a few EU's on 80, but no joy on 160M
There was also only a few WSPR stations reporting a path.
Mike va3mw
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 5:48 AM, Roger Kennedy <
ro...@wessexproductions.co.uk> wrote:
> Well, I spent a few hours on the CQ WW last night, trying to pick out DX
> amongst all the
Well, I spent a few hours on the CQ WW last night, trying to pick out DX
amongst all the strong European stations . . .
Didn't hear a single North American station ! (even though I'm sure all the
big signals were on)
Perhaps conditions will improve tonight.
Roger G3YRO
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Well, I spent a few hours on the CQ WW last night, trying to pick out DX
amongst all the strong European stations . . .
Didn't hear a single North American station ! (even though I'm sure all the
big signals were on)
Perhaps conditions will improve tonight.
Roger G3YRO
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I appreciate the point about trying to get youngsters interested in the
hobby . . .
However, the trouble with the computer-based Digital modes is that there is
no SKILL involved in having a contact - it's your Computer having a contact!
That lack of skill and therefore achievement is what gets p
Hi Vince
Definitely not - I was being dead serious (but, as I'm Australian,
interspersing what I said with attempts at humour).
The part of the post I made from which you made the extract is about the ARRL
getting its DXCC awards program updated to match the emergence and fast growing
popul
Subject of post: NOT the K2AV Counterpoise. :)
This is a great exercise to keep the ol' brain cells from turning to mush.
(Well, in my case it probably just jiggles the existing mush around a bit but
I'll take what I can get.)
Brian, I've been trying to parse out where we agree and where we
Last night has brought a new one - 4S7AYG. Roman UR0MC was at the key. He had a
strong signal on 80 m also.
I expected to get another new one - TZ4AM since Jeff had a good signal in KN29
but, as always, numerous CQs and mostly EA QSOs
--
73, Victor Goncharsky US5WE/K1WE (UW5W in VHF contests,
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