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2018 ARRL January VHF Contest

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02/12/2018 | wa7jtm

This January 2018 ARRL VHF Contest was very different in Arizona than last years contest. This years event was the busiest January VHF Contest I can remember here in Arizona. Early Sunday morning fourteen Summits On The Air (SOTA) Activators hiked up t... Read More
02/08/2018 | NC5AX/R

This was only our third dedicated roving effort...the second using the NC5AX/R callsign.

Mason AF5WN and I (Darin KK5WA) planned an 11-grid, 4-band, 975 mile Limited Rover romp around Arkansas and northern Louisiana. If all went well, we could probably... Read More
02/02/2018 | W6IT

This contest was a good test of my home station in DM13. I recently completed a tower mounted transverter system which added the 6 bands from 902 to 10 GHz. Thanks to the well equiped rover stations of N6NB, W6TE, K6MI and N6MTS, we made contacts on ... Read More
02/01/2018 | KG6IYN

Everyone's heard the phrase and it does extend to ham radio (and contests) as well ... "And now for something completely different". The January VHF Contest is unique. I used to be able to promote it here on the Left Coast by convincing folks we could ... Read More
02/01/2018 | N0LD/R

Preparation for the N0LD/R entry into the January 2018 VHF contest began right after the September 2017 VHF Contest. Nick, KB0YHT, noted that the number of VHF contesters in western Oklahoma was small, but perhaps we could build a campaign to reach o... Read More
01/31/2018 | N6NB/R

After 61 years on the air, I keep saying it's time to give up VHF contests--or at least give up roving. But I keep letting myself be persuaded to do "one more rove." Maybe it doesn't take much persuading...

January 2018 turned into a 10-gr... Read More
01/30/2018 | K2DRH

This was really slow and painful .. even more so then usual. Participation was way down this year. Conditions were also pretty awful. QSB on all bands was the worst I've seen since moving to this QTH. WQ0P was nonexistent on 1296 for over 15 minutes ... Read More
01/30/2018 | n1one

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