Hi everyone, We're 95% setup at God's Cozy Acres for the 160m Stew Perry contest tomorrow. The 160m antenna is up and the original beverage antenna has been repaired with a new run of wire and insulat

Yes Eric, I was about to email everyone today and see what interest there might be for the Stew Perry 160m CW contest this weekend. It's a 24hr contest but per the rules we can only operate up to 14.

I had picked up some fence wire and insulators as discussed prior today from TSC; total cost was just under $51. This is to fix up the old beverage antenna that broke from last year. The left-over wir

LOL OK. So I was going to just reply to George so as to not clog up everyone's email but I ended up replying to all. In the past you used to be able to get an Internet based picocell that you set up a

Hi George, just us here. I used to work at Sprint for 12 years designing cell site locations, CW testing, data collection, etc. So some "words of wisdom". :) Pretty much when the build outs started ye

Hi all; something I noticed late last night after I re-read that article below. And a little correction. When comparing VSWR voltages, you have to compare apples to apples. i.e. peak voltage to peak v

Sounds good Allan; the actual loss depends on transmission line quality and frequency then as we chatted on the phone when I was by Ralph's earlier. i.e the losses would be much greater with a long ru

Yes I think that a presentation would be a great idea--TLARC is looking for new presentations. I myself put in memory the 4-11-25% rule. i.e. 1.5:1 is 4% loss, 2:1 is 11% loss, and 3:1 is 25% loss. I

Ok thanks David. Juan and I are going to be experimenting a bit in the near future on different ideas for remote rig control. The idea is to do something that works reliably and is relatively easy to

Sorry didn't know when it was on/password exactly. :)

Hi Roger, Many of us will use FLDIGI for the older digital modes, and WSJT-X for the newer digital modes. I'm not familiar with that software you name, but if you're not decoding anything is there a r

So continuing on what you said on the repeater meeting tonight Jim, it seems that the ARRL is sticking with the 1,000' diameter rule for all transmitters. At least as of now there is no composite club

I looked up some alternatives to Facebook; I'm not a fan myself but I know that FB works for many people. Zoom.us has a basic/free account covers 100 participants up to 40 minutes. https://zoom.us/pri

I just exported and then re-imported the contest results and noticed that we did do the same contest from the WK9M house a year ago. Our log file was just uploaded and I'm working on LOTW next. Both o

If you want to get pre fabbed jumpers good (but definitely not cheap) ones are from ABR Industries sold by Ham Radio Outlet. A friend of mine has also had good luck with a place called "MPD Digital".

TLARC members, We are still looking for a few items to get setup for the contest at Gods Cozy Acres. Please respond directly to Juan, Randy and David included in the CC line if you can provide any of

Oh sorry everyone for the extra messages. I thought I was replying to Juan directly.

Yes I would say fast blow as well. I checked AutoZone for you and they only have the 32V variety, and are pretty expensive for a glass fuse. Home Depot says they have them in stock cheap...I'd stop th

Ah yes thanks David; this month with 5 Wednesdays must have thrown me off when I looked at the calendar. Please note both references of 1/22 changed to 1/15; the rest is as-is.

Hello everyone! This is an announcement to give everyone a heads up that the CQ WW CW 160m contest is coming soon, and we'll be doing it by God's Cozy Acres this year! We did the ARRL 160m contest out