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N6TV

2/27/2017

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Episode 135 - Bob Wilson - N6TV

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Bob Wilson, N6TV, is a San Francisco Bay Area contester and CW operator.  Having developed his CW craft on the National Traffic System as a teenage kid, he now enjoys the North American Sprint, a four hour contest and using the latest SDR receivers to see what’s up on the bands during a contest event.  A professor at Contest University in Dayton and a three time competitor at the World Radiosport Team Championship, Bob shares what he knows about this and more on this QSO Today.

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Special Thanks to Bob Norberg, K6BZM, for cleaning up the audio on this episode. 
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3 tube regenerative receiver


Army Signal Corp

ARRL Ham Radio License Manual

First License: 1972, Novice, WN6TLV

First Rig: 
  • Heathkit HW-16
  • Hy-Gain 18AVQ vertical
Elmers: 
  • Michael Seedman, was WB6FUE, now AA6DY
  • Larry Tyree, was WB6ZVC, now N6TR
  • Leigh Jones,  was WB6OLD, now KR6X

West Valley Amateur Radio Club,   WA6LXN

First Contest: Novice Roundup

Education:  UC Berkeley Computer Science, BA computer science

Dan Levin,  K6IF, worked for Replay TV, company similar to TiVo

Northern California Contest Club

Northern California DX Club

Bob likes the adrenaline rush from contesting

Rick Niswander, WA1PID, now K7GM Contest Editor 1975

Favorite Contests: North American Sprint 4 hours

Favorite operating mode: CW

Current Rig:  
  • SO2R Box -microHAM MK2R+
  • 2 X Elecraft K3 Transceivers
  • Perseus SDR with http://www.dxatlas.com/OmniRig/Omnirig software
  • QS1SDR SDR by N8VB
  • 89 foot crank up tower
  • Antenna designed by N6BT
  • Shunt feed the tower on 160
  • N6RK Magnetic Loop
  • VE3DO Loop
  • Top Ten Devices Band Decoder for automatic antenna switching
  • Micro Six antenna switch
  • Microham MK2R plus
  • Win-Test software
  • Alpha 87A amplifier

Alex VE3NEA software engineer - maker of CW Skimmer

W7RN Contest Station

Elecraft P3 Panadapter, Option: P3SVGA

Amateur Radio Parity Act 2017

Favorite hamfest or convention:  Visalia DX convention
Dayton Hamvention, 2nd place

To improve CW speed, join the National Traffic System

DXCC Award

Contest University - Usually the day before the Dayton Hamvention

Contest Academy - at the International DX Convention

Martti Laine, OH2BH interview with N6PSE

Tim Duffy Dayton Hamvention Contest Track

Most excited by: 
  • SDRs getting better and better
  • WSPRnet
  • JT65

Auroral Oval

Pixel Loop Antenna

Advice to new or returning hams: 
  • Find and Elmer, join a club, ask questions
  • Put up an antenna
  • Set a goal for yourself

WRTC - World Radiosport Team Championship

​Goodwill Games, Seattle
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Heathkit HW-16 Novice Transceiver
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Elecraft K3 HF Transceiver
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Perseus SDR Receiver
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Software Radio Laboratories
QS1R SDR receiverwww.srl-llc.com/?product=qs1r-revd-receiver
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