01/24/2005 | KG6MDW Well this was our second contest, Last year we operated under W6SN, from a cold, wet and windy mountaintop. This year we where up 1100' ASL in CM98 - El Dorado Hills, Ca. Being in the limited Multi-Op class is fun, There aren't many people doing it and with a modest setup you can get some good scores. Nick, W6GNU was our other op. We where using M2 6m3's on 6, a stack of Arrow 2m 4element on 2 (With a backup of a Elk 2m/440 Log Periodic) and an Elk 2M/440 Log on 440. We would have had 900mhz fm, but we got some wrong parts to mod a MaxTrac I had. All in all it was good.

This contest was much funer, we had all 3 bands up from the start, although we started 2 hrs late, we still got a good score. We had 2 DX contacts, one from CM98 to DM13 on 2m - 355 miles. A hard copy but it was good. And from CM98 to CN70 also on 2m 240 miles. VHF seemed to be favorable.

Grids worked 14

6m Grids Worked 10

2m Grids Worked 14

440 Grids Worked 9

Total Multipliers 33

Total QSO's 187

6M QSO's 46

2m QSO's 97

440 QSO's 44

Final Score:
7623

Look forward to doing the other contests!

73 -- KG6MDW