Dear OMs and Yls
A July Stew Perry is an excellent idea!!!We need something to temp
more onto the band during the noisy season. One tunes the band a number of
times and hears nothing and so resorts to HF.A good effort in high
summer for the northern latitudes might clear our ears.
Dave,
If you ground the top of the wire of a quarter-wave sloper to the tower
and feed the bottom of the slant wire instead (assuming a ground rod and
some radials laying on the ground at the feed point) you will IMHO do
much better. Some matching may be required at the feed point but it may
I'll throw out a related suggestion. Why not use the IARU HF contest as the
summertime 160 contest ? It's 24 hours long and has excellent worldwide
activity on all bands except 160 meters.
73,
Steve, N2IC
On 03/17/2012 05:12 AM, Doug Turnbull wrote:
Dear OMs and Yls
A July Stew Perry
Please no! Let the Stew be the Stew. It is the best and fairest TB
contest ever devised by mankind. I wouldn't mind if we had one every
month especially at the summer solstice, vernal and autumnal equinox
when those in the southern hemisphere could have even more kick. Plus
the IARU has
We did have a Summer Stew last year on the weekend before the ARRL Field
Day. So it shall be again this year.
The updated Stew dates are now up on the web here:
http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.rules.txt
1. Contest period: 1500Z December 29th to 1500Z December 30th, 2012.
Operate for a
On 3/17/2012 6:34 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
Four 24 hour Stew's a year is a good deal, at the equinoxes and the
soltices.
While I LOVE the concept of the Stew, it seriously lacks critical mass,
even in the main event in December. As a result, I always finding
myself taking frequent breaks
I like the Stew, however, it typically falls at a time when I've traveled away
from home for the holidays and don't have access to a station or am actually
traveling during the Stew weekend. Bummer.
This year, the timing was different enough to operate the event and condx
turned out to be
