07/09/2007 | N0LD We decided to try for best Multi-Operated Limited score in Kansas... Our working conditions:

1. FT-847 on 70 cm at 105 feet up - with a 29 element M2 antenna. 25 watts.

2. FT-100 on 2m at 110 feet up - with a 13 element Cushcraft. 100 watts.

3. ICOM 756 PRO III on 6m at 25 feet up - with a 3 element Cushcraft. 50 watts.

We operated from the N0LD shack in rural Rose Hill, KS in EM17. 6m was a real disappointment... we were right on the edge of a major 6m opening at least 3 times... but never seemed to catch the full E-skip opening... just the edges. I believe we needed a better 6m antenna higher up... Perhaps a 7 element 6m antenna is in the offing? 3 elements at 25 ft. serves the e-skip - but NOT the weak signal contacts. We could hear a lot better than we could work - so I think "more power" would have helped us on 70cm and 6m, too. All things we can work on in the future.

Being so near KB0HH (Oklahoma EM06) has its good and bad points - we were able to make contacts by working them after KB0HH worked them - but frequently they didn't come back to 2m after working KB0HH on all the bands they had...

We look forward to the contest results...

KC0QIE (Jim Enix), KB0YHT (Nick Farlow), and N0LD (Randy Wing) -- N0LD