[NLRS] activity

Chris Cox, N0UK [email protected]
Sun, 7 Dec 2003 07:21:43 -0600 (CST)


Mark,

are you hearing that description from other people or how can you make 
that blanket claim if you turn your radios off during all of the contests?

As for hearing people 200+ miles away off the back and sides of your 
array, is that a problem of poor sidelobes or by desire/design?

Chris

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Mark Brown wrote:

> Contesting is NOT activity, it is an excuse for poor operating practices.
> People qrming qso's in progress etc. When vhf contesters go back to being
> polite like they were  7 years ago I might come back, until then the radio
> gets turned off. And the excuses like I couldn't hear you etc are lame, I
> can hear stations 200+ miles away off the sides and back of the antennas.

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