I'll have to say, this one was hard. I heard absolutely no hint of any opening on 6 m. Despite my cell carrier claiming service in the area, they had none, so I had no way of coordinating contacts. Th

ARRL September VHF Contest - 2020 Call: W3DHJ/R Operator(s): W3DHJ Station: W3DHJ/R Class: Limited Rover LP QTH: DM77-78-87-88 Operating Time (hrs): 19.75 RoverLog QSOs by Activated Grid: Grid QSOs DM

To ALL.. I will starting out 11 am local in DM32 then DM33, DM42, DM43,,will make 2 passes in this loop On Saturday all day into late evening .. I will be spending the night in DM33 and DM32 running M

I will be active as Rover in the 2020 ARRL SEP VHF Contest -- basically solo grid circling around 38 N and 104 W all weekend. Sat in seq.: DM88, DM87, DM77, DM78 Sun in seq.: DM78, DM77, DM87, DM88 Mo

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I'm heading northeast for the upcoming contest next weekend. As usual, 6/2/432, 100/100/50 W, gain antennas. Cell service at all sites looks marginal, so I plan to send updates via Slack NMVHF when I

We're about 3 1/2 weeks out from the September contest. I'm hoping I can talk someone into visiting both DM74 & DM76 with 6M and WSJT capability (just in case..). Of course, we can work on 2, 222 & 43

< https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53218658 > If our sun had spots this size, The MUF for F2 propagation would probably extend to 500MHz or so! - Duffey James Duffey KK6MC Cedar Crest NM

So far, the 222+ contest has convinced me (or, I have rediscovered) that FT8 on 432 is unusable on paths with lots of Doppler shifted multi-path, such as my paths to DEN and PHX. These paths are heavi

Anyone planning on running WSJT modes this weekend need to remember that WSJT-X FT8 mode does not play well with the required 6 character grid square report REQUIRED for distance scoring in thai conte

Band Mode QSOs Pts Grd Pt/Q 50 FT4 1 1 0 1.0 50 FT8 76 76 55 1.0 50 MSK1 1 1 1 1.0 Total Both 78 78 56 1.0 Score : 4,368 Not the best of times but an interesting time none-the-less. Started out in the

Half the battle was just keeping equipment and operator cool enough to get through the weekend. The only major failure was the battery booster, which popped under the stress Saturday afternoon. Propag

All-in-all it was a wretched weekend for rovering in S.E. Colorado. But, there were several bright spots -- among them was working two NM VHF Society ops: John, AA5PR/R -- twice on 2M CW from each of

From: Scott Davis <scottk5ta@...> Date: July 19, 2020 at 8:39:52 PM MDT To: nmbrc@groups.io, nmvhf@groups.io Subject: K5TA CQ VHF  Chasing rovers is fun. Big TNX to AA5PR/R. I always seem to find him

My plans for this weekend are pretty simple: DM76va Saturday 1800-0100Z (maybe later if I'm being productive) DM63qv Sunday 1400-2100 Z 6m 100 W + Moxon 2m 100 W + 6 el. All modes. I'll occasionally p

The current prediction is for 102 degrees on Saturday. Sunday's prediction isn't much better. Whewwwww!! I'll be doing DM88 - DM87 - DM77 - DM78, in that sequence on Sat. I may stay out late enough on

Jim KC7QY ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Terry Price <terry@...> To: "vhf@..." <vhf@...>; vhfcontesting@... <vhfcontesting@...>; "newsvhf@..." <newsvhf@...> Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020, 10:37:17

Duffey, That was one hell of a write-up you did for the 2020 ARRL JAN VHF! I can't even imagine the amount of time and effort that you put into that! I thank you. I'm sure we all thank you. Good on yo

The expanded results writeup for the ARRL January 2020 VHF contest Is available here: < https://contests.arrl.org/ContestResults/2020/Jan-VHF-2020-FinalFullResults.pdf > Congratulations to Rocky Mount

Are there points to be had on FM simplex during the contests? If so, what's the etiquette for getting them? I suspect that calling "CQ contest" on 146.52 might not fly.... John AA5PR