02/04/2006 | W6XD/R Thanks to everyone who worked us as we moved through 15 grid squares.

This year we stayed in California and limited our total trip to less than two days, starting the contest in Orange County (DM13) at 11 a.m. (PST) Saturday and returning there about 1 a.m. Monday after going as far north as Arbuckle (CM89), northwest of Sacramento.

A highlight was having six (6) 10-band rovers together at the Mojave convergence at one time (K6VCR/R, N6DN/R, N6MU/R, N6RMJ/R, N6TEB/R and W6XD/R). There was a lot of commotion even on the microwave bands as we all worked each other--and everyone else we could hear at this junction of grids DM04, DM14, DM05 and DM15.

There are more pictures of this and previous rover adventures, along with a short history of this kind of VHF/UHF contesting, on the rover page at www.n6nb.com.

See y'all next year! -- W6XD/N6NB