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2011 ARRL June VHF Contest

06/16/2011 | XE2K

 

This time again  like the "old times"  contesting at 101 Deg F,  radio was
 cooled  with 3 High speed  fans during the VERY short Runs and
 the Very long CQ's in dead band at DM22
Some  notes:
A great opening to VE3 like never before, the  2 longest Shots  where   N1BUG 
and W1MU.
Almost all the action was Saturday, Sunday  when arrive to the station
just provide a few Qsos  before the band was dead, almost 300 qsos, less
than past year, but is the magic.
 This time  using  a 8 L  LFA 12.5mts Boom @ 100ft,  3L LFA at 50ft fixed,
  Stacked pair of home brew halos and  1/4 w Vertical ground plane at 60ft.
The set up works great, most of the time the LFA was at 50 Deg. and the halos
 work the others stations out of that direction, very sharp the 8L, great to
avoid 
 line Noise from the City, made possible a lot of contacts hard or impossible
before with the  6M7JHV  at 140ft, thanks to Justin  G0KSC for the great
antennas he design and sell,  (I build my own),  also  thanks  to  all those 
OM's that  keep calling me  with QSB was present, the only station that hear
 and do not  made the QSO was  NGÃ?R , more than 10 minutes calling him and
Nada.
At 21z Quit contest  and drove home.

 Hope next time
A few photos of the set up
https://picasaweb.google.com/Hector.xe2k/8ElementsLFAInstalledJUNE2011

Hector XE2K
-- XE2K


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