2011 ARRL June VHF Contest
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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