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06/15/2004 | K0RPT
Well, this was my first try at a contest. I was pretty bummed as all week long propagation was great on 6. Saturday morning 6 was open to the NW with stations pouring in Nebraska. Then out of the blue comes this nasty storm and all the bands went dead.... Read More
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06/15/2004 | K0AWU
The June contest is always looked forward to with great anticipation. A chance to enjoy the activity and good tropo conditions. Well that is what I dream about during the long cold northern Minnesota winter. Good tropo we didn't have. Great weather the... Read More
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06/15/2004 | KJ6NO
Great contest weekend except that I had to work most of it. Rigs were IC 756 PRO II on 50 MHz and an IC 910 on 144 and 432 MHZ. Antennas were all loops the highest was the 6 meter loop at 10 feet. The 144MHZ loop was at 6 feet and the 432 loop was mag-... Read More
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06/14/2004 | KH6WZ
Yikes. Murphy creeps into the IF radio, and a BFO failure killed my 10GHz system. However, this was a good practice session for the upcoming 10GHz contest! Read More
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06/14/2004 | W7GK
Took our mountain top entry to Rocky Point (8275 ft) in the Pequop range this year. Rocky Point is located between Wendover and Wells, NV a bit north of Interstate 80 in grid DN21.
Operated 6m, 2m and 432 as a SO-LP. Set up our camp and began listening... Read More -
06/14/2004 | W5WJP
Sparse 6m openings....but still a lot of fun. Ran my FT-847 with a 6m log at 20 feet and got about half the contacts i had last year from the same setup. Read More
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06/14/2004 | WV0H
This was a pretty bleak year for 6m. The only opening was of my 2m rig whilest 6m was going, unbeknownst to me! With soldering iron in one hand and N0UGY on the phone in the other, we managed to repair my TR-751 RF gain pot/problem. Upon sucessful c... Read More
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06/14/2004 | K0XXX
Desperate to work the contest and with my tower not yet up, I set up a ten ft. tripod with twenty feet of mast in my back yard. With the tripod held in place with metal fence posts driven into the ground, the 6 meter beam was set at 15 ft. and the two ... Read More
