KG5VK was W1AW/5 LA

What a really nice gift from the ARRL for taking time to offer W1AW/5 LA
from my station during the 100th year celebration last year !

CQ WW Contest Blog » Blog Archive » UT5UGR Log Padding in CQ WW

CQ WW Contest Blog » Blog Archive » UT5UGR Log Padding in CQ WW



I am glad to see The CQ sponsors demanding integrity in our sport !


It is sad that someone had to pursue the level of cheating they did.


But it is good to see the rules enforced !


Cheers!

Steve

KG5VK

Why you might want to try an Amateur Radio Contest by Stan K5GO

Amateur radio can be a pass time like playing solitaire on a computer. 
It can be a hobby like building a model airplane....or it can be a game
like any sport or activity that may involve more than one player.  While
some may play games just for the fun of it or to get some exercise,
most people keep score and compare to others - golf, bowling,
volleyball, monopoly, football, basketball, baseball, bridge, etc. The
list goes on forever and in every case you are trying to beat someone or
everyone.



Contests are similar to any other activity in which most people keep
score.  You may try to beat your own previous performance, beat someone
in your area or compete for the top ten or overall win.  You choose your
level of competition and make it just within reach on a good day. 
Wanting to do your best, in addition to improving your operator skills,
you can also have fun doing what you can to make your station as
efficient as possible and see the results of your work.  This is an area
where amateur radio is unlike many of the other sports.  You can buy a
new bowling ball or a new deck of cards or a new set of clubs, but for
the most part there is little improvement that can come as a result of
better infrastructure.  Better infrastructure coupled with improved
skills makes a huge difference in results and is quite rewarding in
sense of accomplishment.



If someone has any interest in counting countries, states, counties,
etc, they will want to operate contests to build those numbers.  As for
the  underlying purpose of amateur radio, observe the non contest
operator at FD passing traffic versus a top notch contester and evaluate
what the difference would be in case of an emergency.



73...Stan, K5GO

A contest Excel file for planning and watching your stats over the year from Ve1za

here is the file, this thing is pretty sweet

steve

http://qsl.net/ve1za/Projects/VE1ZA%202015%20Contest%20Dashboard%20-%20V2.xls

Cheers!
KG5VK

Very Short Video of K5SL's s meter while listening to the back side of my Vee Beam on 40m

K5SL de KG5VK in North Texas
Thanks Randy !

Ham Radio at Area 57 the journey begins

As we start building our new place in North Texas
on 57 acres of land, affectionally named Area 57

I thought I would post some images of our progress

 My very first antenna at the new QTH,  A Vee Beam feed point about 35 feet above the ground with very long legs (aprox 8 wave lengths long on 20m)

 Closer look at the feed point,  fed with ladder line to the balanced input on the back of an antenna tuner

How's it work pretty darn well, I will post more info soon.
Cheers!
steve

Logging contacts during ARRL FD with N1MM+

The Movie showing N1MM + basics used during ARRL FD

by the way ARRL FD this year is the 27 & 28th of June
K5SAR operation at KG5VK's QTH will QRT at Noon on Sunday.

Cheers!
steve
KG5VK

K1DG and N0AX are inducted in to the CQ Contest Hall of Fame !!!

The 2015 inductees to the CQ Contest Hall of Fame are:

Doug Grant, K1DG - is
not only a world-class contester, but has not hesitated to share his
knowledge and skills with others. He has built or helped to build
several championship contest stations, is a founding member of the
Yankee Clipper Contest Club, a founding director of the World Wide Radio
Operators Foundation, is a regular instructor at Contest University and
has run the Contest Forum at the Dayton Hamvention® for the past 20
years. In addition, Doug has competed in five World Radiosport Team
Championships (WRTCs), and has medaled three times.

Ward Silver, N0AX -
has been a contester for over four decades and has operated from some
of the world's top contest stations, spanning four continents. A founder
of the World Radiosport Team Championship (WRTC) competitions in 1990,
Ward is currently Secretary of the WRTC Sanctioning Committee. He is
also president of the YASME Foundation, which supports DXpeditions and
contest operations around the world, QST contesting editor and author of
Ham Radio for Dummies and Circuitbuilding Do-It-Yourself for Dummies.

I know Ward really well, went to High School with him
I know Doug as well, went on the Ti5N contest expedition with him
Congrats to both of them !

Cheers!

Steve

KG5VK

Wow what a close race between the W5RU team and the W6YI team in November 2014 ARRL SS Phone

http://www.arrl.org/files/file/ContestResults/2014/2014ARRLNovPhoneSweepstakes-FullResultsVersion1_0.pdf

Awesome writeup by Steve London N2IC

Who was the first to earn a Clean Sweep this year?
That honor goes to team W5RU who made the sweep in the

Multioperator, High Power category at 0024Z. This is the

same team that made the first Sweep last year, using the

call sign KG5VK. Their last section? Virgin Islands.

 

Multioperator, High Power (MH)

72 teams competed in the Multioperator, High Power

category. 13 new section records and 4 new division

records were set. This year, there was a close battle

between the W6YI team (K6AM, N6AN, N6KI,

W2PWS, W6YI) in San Diego and the W5RU team

(KN5O, K1DW, K5ER, W5WZ, KG5VK) in Louisiana.

When the dust settled, team W6YI emerged victorious by

a mere 14 QSOs. 

 

Note: Team W5RU also set new division and section records - KG5VK

 

HFTA assistance from stu on getting an HFTA plot done

Web Site of the Week - Stu K6TU has automated the process of generating terrain profiles for use with N6BV's HF Terrain Analysis (HFTA) program. To support HFTA's modeling, a user must first obtain a terrain profile which describes the height of terrain around the antenna location. This process is cumbersome and time consuming as the source of the data must be located, downloaded, then processed with MicroDEM. Terrain Profile Requests are available to any user with a registered account on K6TU.NET at no charge and no subscription to Stu's propagation prediction service is necessary. Stu's site maintains copies of both the USGS National Elevation Dataset (for the United States) and the NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission dataset enabling fast turnaround of requests.

EP6T Iran DXpedition (Kish Island - AS-166) | Southgate Amateur Radio News

EP6T Iran DXpedition (Kish Island - AS-166) | Southgate Amateur Radio News

An Introduction To The DXLab Suite | Our HAM Station

An Introduction To The DXLab Suite | Our HAM Station

N1MM & Morse Runner » PA1T

N1MM & Morse Runner » PA1T



Learn how to set up an awesome training or CW contest simulator

following the steps at PA1T's website



here are the steps from his website........



English instruction.

This is an instruction how to connect N1MM and Morse Runner together
with a hotkey program made by Don K7OG. Now you can practice cw
contesting in a real contest environment.

You have to install 3 programs.

1 N1MM

2 Morserunner

3 Hotkey

N1MM logger

Go to www.n1mm.com

Go to download (full installer) en download N1MM and install it.

You then have to install the latest version of the logger.

Morse runner

Go to http://www.dxatlas.com/MorseRunner/ and download morse runner (is located at download)

Install the program.

Hotkey script

Go to  http://k7og.net/?p=90 download here “n1mm to Morse Runner connection exe version”

Be sure to take the exe version.

Hotkey script

Go to  http://k7og.net/?p=90 download here “n1mm to Morse Runner connection exe version”

You may copy this file where you want. You have to unzip it. because it is a zip file.

Run the programs

Start N1MM and go to files. Open a new database and give it a name maybe Morserunnertrainer.

Go again to files and open a new log in the data base and choose cqww wpxcw. This is your only choice otherwise it will not run.

Start het Hotkey program.

Start Morse Runner and start it with Run

Type  CW in the entry window of N1MM because N1MM has to know it is cw.

Push now F1 in n1mm (only on the keyboard and N1MM logger gives CQ  and  Morse Runner will answer..

Good luck.

CQWW 2014

CQWW 2014



http://4o3a.com/index.php/4o3a-station/stories/cqww-2014



Wow this is some serious stuff !!!



cheers!

steve

DF3CB.com :: Software :: Fast Log Entry (FLE) paper Log to ADIF Tool set

DF3CB.com :: Software :: Fast Log Entry (FLE)

Amateur Radio Contesting FAQ

Not everyone knows everything about contesting in Ham Radio the day they become a contest op

here is a good resource on everything about contesting

To me the bottom line is to have fun !!!

Cheers!

steve

KG5VK



Amateur Radio Contesting FAQ



http://www.qsl.net/zs1an/contesting_faq.html

N1MM+ Beta Testing A Note from The N1MM+ development Team

Since we began the public beta test of N1MM Logger+, over 1000 people
have downloaded the Full Installer, but only about 300 of those are
keeping up with the daily updates, and only about 370 have joined the
N1MMLoggerPlus e-mail group on Yahoo.



Two requests:



If you want to help us test N1MM+, please join the Yahoo group.  It's
the only public channel for discussion of the new program, and if you want
to help us test you have to be there.



Please stay current.  We are updating pretty much every day. As you can
imagine, something that was reported yesterday may well have been fixed
in today's update.  If you report something that has already been fixed,
it's a big waste of time for everyone involved.



Thanks and 73,



The N1MM Development Team

N1MM Logger Website | N1MM Plus Open Beta

N1MM Logger Website | N1MM Plus Open Beta


Please keep in mind downlaods will be "Throttled"

so Tom's server will not die :)

Reminder this is still a BETA version !!!!!

Please, please, please read the FAQ file

before posting any questions on the N1MM email reflector


However when you post a questions many of the team members are monitoring and will strive to answer questions fast and accurately, but once again you can help by reading the FAQ files as your answer may already be there


Last full N1MM (before +) were downloaded over 14 thousand times

so this is going to wild answering every single question if no one reads the FAQ files first.

Below is a Note from Tom....

• When you begin testing, please wait one full day before asking your first question on the reflector. Take the time to look at the manual on the website, and at the N1MM Logger Plus Yahoo group archive. You’ll also find that the N1MM Plus website's Search function has been much improved – please give it a try.

Cheers!

steve

KG5VK

What a dif a year makes....NAQSOP 2013 versus 2014 at KG5VK

Of course not near as much time in the chair but not sure it would have made the dif as it looks like from these graphs I lost a lot of q's with 10 and 15 not being "useable" this year......

 

Twice ops asked to move me to 15m
we had no joy (could not hear each other)
I tried CQ on 10m several times and looked at the bands (10&15)
with a band scope numerous times
Did I miss a short opening or was it this way for everyone ?
KG5VK

QSO/SWL real time maps - W2LN - ALH

QSO/SWL real time maps - W2LN - ALH