AI4BJ
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| Best place to buy parts and components | imdrich1 | 1 day, 10 hours ago |
| ARRL used to sell a kit of all parts for Books 1 & 2 (p/n 1255K), but it seems that they no longer offer it. I would reach out to the author (N0AX) to see if he knows of anyone still selling them. | ||
| Questioning 2018 FD Rules re: "Digital" | WL7COO | on 22/6/18 |
| The rules don't explicitly address this, but as Field Day is (primarily) an emergency preparedness test, I would expect that any QSOs that depend on a functioning internet would not be valid for points. 73, Mark AI4BJ |
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| ft8 legal for field day contacts? | KJ6BQM | on 22/6/18 |
| Field Day has: * Five dense pages of written rules * An elaborate scoring system, including bonus points * Results are published in QST not in call sign order, but in descending order of points earned Ergo: Field Day IS a contest, albeit an atypical one. :-) 73, Mark AI4BJ |
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| ft8 legal for field day contacts? | KJ6BQM | on 11/6/18 |
| Yes, it's certainly legal, but whether or not it is like free ice cream is debatable. I expect the tiny FT8 sub-bands to be thoroughly congested during FD. If you really want to shoot fish in a barrel, CW is the way to go. ;-) Mark AI4BJ |
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| Which group of letters should I use? | gvhorwitz | on 16/2/18 |
| Hi Greg, I used G4FON myself to learn CW, and highly recommend it. I learned the letters in the order that the program presents them. (I think it starts with K and M). I don't think the particular order matters too much, as it shouldn't take you more than a week or two to work up to the full alphabet. "20/5" means that the program is generating characters for 20 WPM, but is spacing them out so that the EFFECTIVE WPM is only 5 WPM. This sounds like a good starting point. As your copying skill improves, you can slowly increase the Effective WPM. Good luck! Mark AI4BJ |
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