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  • Transducerz

    01/27/2004 | N3TR

    Lotsa fun for a basically dead prop weekend. Opping single-op, low-power.

    One brief 6m opening FM29 / EL9x-land and VP9GE.

    Very surprised that I tagged 7k pts. 75/16 on 6. 78/14 on 2. 27/7 on 432. 21.75 hrs. 180 Qs. 207 Q pts. 37 multis. 7659 ... Read More

  • The Jan 2004 team (L to R): W3PAW, W3YOZ, K4VV, KD3SA, W3TEF, W3BTX, and WR3Z. Missing from the picure were K3RUQ and W9NET

    01/26/2004 | W3SO

    There was 14 inches on snow on the ground at the beginning of the contest. On Saturday night the temperature went to -10 degrees. And another foot fell late Sunday evening. Luckily we had no antenna or rotor problems. But the bad wx and the league sche... Read More

  • The KG6GMT Rover in DM15 about Noon local time Sunday 70 DEG F.

    01/26/2004 | KG6GMT

    The KG6GMT Rover ran 729 miles covering 8 grids in Southern California
    We had 136 contacts for 182 points with 38X for a raw score of 6916 points. Bands worked 6 metere 10/5 144 80/14 432 46/10. The rig was a Yaesu FT-817 stock on 6 and 432 but we h... Read More

  • 01/26/2004 | WB3DSJ

    Made six contacts on both eighty and forty but
    heard MANY stations on both bands from here in western PA.
    Only one rig newer than my HW101, rarest a Meissner Signal Shifter.
    Never heard one before! Thanks to N4QA for that contact.
    Boat anchors and str... Read More

  • 01/26/2004 | K5IX

    Saturday was a little slow to say the least...mostly 2 meter locals ...worked a few on 432 also but again only local..

    I worked high power on 6 meters and low power on 144 and 432 mhz using Cushcraft A50-5S 6 meter beam at 50 feet... 10 element yagi ... Read More

  • 01/26/2004 | W8PAT

    I had a good time and conditions were as expected for January contest. VP9GE only Es on six meters from here. Two meters, 222 and 432 were good to about 300 miles. K3EAR - FM19 was the big gun to the southeast and N2PA - FN12 to the northeast.

    6 met... Read More

  • Even EME operators are awestruck by this massive two-meter array!

    01/26/2004 | WB8DQT

    It has been about 30 years since I last operated CW/SSB on two meters. This Fall I decided to try SSB/SSTV on the band and put together a very basic station using an old IC707 HF transceiver, a Ten Tec 1210 transverter, and a Mirage B-310-G "brick". I... Read More

  • 01/26/2004 | VA3NFA

    That was fun!

    My total claimed score is : 2236

    Band: QSO/Grids

    50: 16/7
    144: 32/12
    222: 8/4
    432: 9/2
    1296: 1/1

    66 contacts and 26 multipliers.


    I worked about 6 hours on and off during the contest.
    Memorable events:

    - Working VA3KA (about 15 kms... Read More

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