Kyle and John- I will not be out for the contestants I amnstill in South Dakota cleaning out my dad’s house. You might have better luck from Magdelena Ridge working the guys in Az. Post your plans on

Keith - Yes, that is true, I got confused with the ARRL 222 and up contest, for which one must define a circle. Sorry. The one I did for that was a real chore to get everyone in the circle, but it wor

I have done that in the past, identifying which QSOs were outside the club territory in the “Soapbox” section of the header. I think it worked, but it is an awkward way to do things. - Duffey KK6MC

I think for CQ WW VHF as long as part of the rove is within club territory, the entire score counts. That is not the way it is for ARRL contest though. I will check the rules. - Duffey KK6MC

Jonesy - The ABQ airport is a good club center at this point. That should cover pretty much everyone in NM, you, the El Paso group, and W9RM, I think. If that is not adequate, I can adjust it. - DUffe

I’ in South Dakota. - Duffey James Duffey KK6MC Cedar Crest NM

I will miss the June VHF contest this year. My dad died last week and the funeral was yesterday. I am in South Dakota now taking care of things. I will miss working all of you. Good luck in the contes

Jonesy - You read that right, there is no rover analog only category. There was some concern about category creep, which dilutes competition. The VHF contests already have 10 categories, the analog on

OK Keith thanks for the reply. I don’t think the subcommittee members are any secret, or at least shouldn’t be, and it will come out sooner or later, so it is W0ZQ (chair), K2DRH, W2FU, K2UA, N2CEI, K

The latest ARRL Contest Bulletin contains an announcement (see below) that a new analog only subcategory has been added to the June VHF contest for the SOHP, SOLP, SO3B and SOP categories. See the cut

Wednesday, April 27 at 1830, I will be giving a talk to the Albuquerque DX Association about 6M operation. It is a zoom meeting and you are welcome to link in. Information below. I hope you can make i

Tomorrow evening at 1830, Wednesday April 27, I will be giving a talk on 6M to the Albuquerque DX Association. Meetings are currently held on Zoom. When I get the invite and link I will forward it to

I think that some (all?) of you may not have received the attachment. I think some of the reflectors may strip the attachments. Here is a link to the file. - Duffey KK6MC < https://w9fz.com/ham/CSVHFS

After a two year Covid hiatus, the CSVHF conference is on this summer. I have attached a file describing the conference and host hotel. Hotel reservations are open now and conference registration begi

Mike and Gary pointed out a couple of errors in my itinerary, so I have corrected it. As usual, things may happen for me to deviate from the itinerary, mostly if I am running late, particularly if the

There is an error in my route, DM33xx should be DM33ax. I h ave corrected it in the table below. James Duffey KK6MC Cedar Crest NM

I am doing my usual banana belt rove through Arizona Saturday and Sunday. My itinerary is below. The rover will have all bands 6M through 1296MHz. A Moxon on 6M, 8 ft Yagis on 2M through 432MHz, and 4

A good rule of thumb when deciding tolerances of all kinds involving lengths of things in RF applications is the one degree rule. That is, a tolerance resulting in one degree of error is acceptable. T

All - If you have participated in a VHF+ contest in the last 2 years and included your e-mail address in your log submission, you should have received an invitation to complete a survey on the impact

I neglected to mention that I will be sending my position on APRS when I have coverage. James Duffey KK6MC Cedar Crest NM On Sep 10, 2021, at 12:12, James Duffey <jamesduffey@...> wrote:  Her