[NLRS] UHF Test *newbie*

[Zack Widup]

Well, this is kind of late as the contest is over now, but yes you were
listening in the right part of the band. You could've called CQ on 432.100
and QSY'ed when you got a response, or called CQ anywhere between say
432.090 to 432.140. That's where I heard most of the activity this time,
anyway.

The trouble with the UHF contest is that if people don't have their beams
pointed right at each other, if one of them (like me) isn't runing high
power, he won't be heard.

I did have something funny happen this morning. Heard a station I wanted to
work on 222. He didn't hear me on that band. He QSY'ed to 432 with another
station. He didn't hear me on that band. He QSY'ed with that station to
1296. Even though he had his beam at right angles to me, I got his attention
there. I was probably scattering off something into his antenna, which was
not happening on the lower bands. We went back and worked on 222 and 432
when he had his beam on me.

I hope you made at least a few QSO's and had fun!

73, Zack W9SZ



On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Tom Peterson <
tom at galesvillefiredepartment.org> wrote:

>
>
> OK gang, I've never really worked a UHF contest, so this is sort of new
> to me.  In fact, I think I can count the number of times I've been on
> 70CM on the fingers of 1 hand.  I've got my efactor antenna up as high
> as I can get it.  I'm feeding it with good coax, 9913 ultraflex only
> used once by a little old amateur that deployed it for Field Day.  I'm
> tuning 432.1 to 432.150 USB.  Not a peep.  Am I in the right portion of
> the band?  What freqs should I be calling around?
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