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2010 ARRL September VHF Contest

09/25/2010 | K9GY
Operated from Thorofare Mountain Overlook on Skyline Drive in Shenandoah
National Park at approx 3,550 feet. About a three and half hour drive (one-way)
from Langley AFB. Decided to do SO-portable instead of rover this time. LOTS of
people asking what I was doing...at times a distraction. One person thought I
was a google mapping person! Although did have nice visits from Scott AE4TC and
KB3IZH. 

My car was in the shop for repairs (ugh!)...so had the loaner car from the
dealer. Bad thing about these newer cars is you need to have the key in the
ignition for the cigarette lighter to have power. Fortunately the loaner car
had a moon roof (antenna support goes from cup holder out/through the moon
roof). Got some rain early Sunday morning (midnight until 2 or 3 am). So tried
to cover the moon roof opening. Finally had to pull the antenna support from
the car and close the moon roof. Sunday morning was cloudy but cleared up and
was a nice day. The CW paddle connection went bad about mid-day on Sunday. 

Farthest grids: FN32 + FN12 
No FM26 worked! 

Yaesu FT-817 
4L Arrow 2m yagi 
3L Arrow 432 yagi 
6m hamsticks in dipole configuration
-- K9GY


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