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09/15/2005 | KE5ELU
This was my first ARRL VHF contest. After getting my first 2 meter all mode radio a couple months ago, I had plans of getting a Yaggi up for the contest and making a lot of contacts. Well, after the Hurricane hit things got busy for me. I didnt get ... Read More
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09/14/2005 | WB2SIH
Had a great time operating in the contest! Had a good chance to see improved performance of antennas now that they are above most of the trees . To benefit from aurora,sporadic E and great tropo during the contest was unexpected but it sure added to t... Read More
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09/14/2005 | K0XXX
Had a great time even though conditions were generally rather flat. We did have a nice E's opening, mainly into the southeast on 6m, sunday evening. KD5RUJ's rover operation was a great help locally.
Things, at times, were slow enough that I had to ta... Read More -
09/14/2005 | N8BMB
This was my 3rd VHF contest. I did pretty well, I think, this time as I finished with 85 contacts as opposed to the last 2 of 30 and 40 contacts each time.
Equipment used this contest: Yeasu FT-857D, 2m home-brew beam, 6m home-brew "rotatable" di-pole... Read More -
09/13/2005 | KC2MJK
KC2NRG and I participated on Saturday and had a great time. Even with all of our antennas indoor (up in the attic) we were able to make some nice contacts on 6, 2 (using par omni-angle loops) and even a handful on 70cm USB with a J-Pole! As K2ULF wou... Read More
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09/13/2005 | KU4BP/4
Operated as Single Op Portable from the Blue Ridge Parkway in Northwest North Carolina, EM96kk.
Rig: Icom 706MKIIG 10 watts out
Antenna: 2m, 8 elements at 10 feet; 70cm, 8 elements at 10 feet
Ran 8 hours Sunday morning and conditions were AWESOME. Ever... Read More -
09/13/2005 | KE4DRN
First time on 6m !
I used my homebuilt wire Moxon from the W4RNL site
http://www.cebik.com/moxon/6m.html
Once the band opened up last Sunday I made
7 contacts, six from OK and on in AR. Read More -
09/13/2005 | K2DRH EN41
Saturday conditions were way down here. After an initial good hour, the QSO rate dropped way off. There was no propagation to speak of above 432 MHz and I had to ask a lot of stations to sked me later or the following morning in hopes that we could m... Read More
