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08/26/2004 | W0ZQ
For the first weekend of the contest member of the Northern Lights Radio Society (NLRS), along with a group from Michigan, headed north to play 10 & 24 gigs around Lake Superior. A team of 10 Op's ran the Minnesota Northshore from Duluth to Grand Port... Read More
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08/24/2004 | KH6WZ
Finally on the air late Sunday night after chasing gremlins in the rig - this is Huntington Beach, DM03xq. Yes, it is really dark. The colored lights in the background are coming from navigation lights on off-shore oil platforms - useful to reflect sig... Read More
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08/23/2004 | W1AUV
8-22-2004
The first weekend of the 10 GHz and up contest, at least, here in the northeast, was wet. How wet? Here is a picture of my setup taken in FN22 on Saturday; clear garbage bags and all. For all the wet I made only 9 contacts.
The next day on Gr... Read More -
08/18/2004 | N
August UHF contest 2004.... NRW EN41go.....()
This year I operated in the low power section on 222 & 432 Mhz at my home qth..... My 1296 setup turned out to be dead on both transmit & recieve come contest time even though prior testing a few days earl... Read More -
08/18/2004 | N3BB
2004 IARU Contest Comments
The IARU contest has all the ingredients for a great contest. We in Texas who are far from both EU and JA can work other USA stations, and get 3 points for the east coast and west coast zones to boot! The famous 20 meter mi... Read More -
08/18/2004 | WB8BZK/R
My long awaited new 1296 yagi arrived cracked in half thanks to UPS! Jerry at SSB Electronics scrambled to send me a new one with only two days left before the contest. Thankfully the replacement antenna arrived just in time Friday night and 1296 was r... Read More
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08/15/2004 | K3TUF
This contest just kept me busy the whole time. I thoroughly enjoyed it and as a beginner to microwave contesting, I can say "Please don't end this contest, I'm just getting started"
Even though the conditions weren't the best, I managed to get my furt... Read More -
08/13/2004 | W3IY/R
Even though the propagation was extremely poor, we had
much fun in the 2004 UHF contest. The wx was fantastic as
for being comfortable and cool, but it's the heat and humidity
which, unfortunately, make for decent microwave propagation.
The beacons w... Read More
