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  • 01/21/2008 | WA1RKS

    Well I thought it was going to be a great one with the onset of the opening into 4 land right off!! but then the RF Trolls came along and scoffed up all the RF laying around the upper layers and stole it!! So we settled for a non exciting event. I stil... Read More

  • This is me at the "Cattle Pens" operating site. I set up on the right side of the bridge overpass.

    01/21/2008 | N0JK

    I set up my portable station Saturday at the "Cattle Pens" in the Flint Hills of EM18 2 hours before the start. I turned on the 6 Meter radio to check the SWR and heard very loud CW down in the beacon band. The W9DR/b on 50.062 MHz in EL86 was booming ... Read More

  • Here is my setup on Sunday with a three-element Six Meter Yagi (up only ten feet because of the wind), a three-element Two Meter Yagi on a telescope tripod on the car roof, along with a vertical for my 220 MHz handheld HT.

    01/21/2008 | WB2AMU

    As with other ARRL VHF Contests, I operated the January event in the QRP portable catagory from a hill located in Central Long Island in grid FN30.

    Having done this for over ten years and enduring snow storms and cold weather for the January event, it ... Read More

  • 01/19/2008 | N3YNT

    For the last several years I have want to work SKN, but this was the first time I've been able to participate. I had a great time using a Ten-Tec Corsair and a Bencher Straight Key. I had six QSOs, all of which were enjoyable, with the following statio... Read More

  • AB6QK's Straight Key Night "original" station, Including Heath DX-40 transmitter and VF-1 vfo, sitting atop a National HRO-60 receiver.

    01/19/2008 | AB6QK

    For several years, I had wanted to revive as much of my old 1959 novice setup as I could for SKN. I finally did it this year! I still had everything but the original surplus/homebrew receiver. I used my father's (W6ZIF - SK) HRO 60 which he gave to me... Read More

  • Used my HW-16/HG10 and  2NT/HQ180A and had a ball.  Too bad I had to go to a New Years Eve party!

    01/19/2008 | K7SU

    Chirps, drifting signals, slow code, QRM....just like back in the GOOD OL' DAYS! Can't wait til next year!

    Kelly
    www.K7SU.com Read More

  • 01/19/2008 | W0RTK

    I put my first station together to operate on SKN which was a Globe Scout 65, Hammarlund HQ140X and Heath VF1 vfo, but found it didn't work out very well. Then I put the old Ten Tec on the air and had only time for one QSO, that being with W0WM. What a... Read More

  • dug thru the junque box and laid out every key I could find.

    01/19/2008 | AA4Q

    I only have a temporary dipole at 15' and an IC-703 at 5W. Made only 4 QSOs using a coupla different keys, including the cheap Radio Shack key I used 33 yrs ago as a novice, didn't meet my goal of one QSO per key. KW9R had the best fist I heard. AA4Q Read More

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