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2016 ARRL January VHF Contest
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03/14/2016 | K7XC
With no antennas in the air for VHF and the contest coming I did alot of research online before settling upon the DK7ZB 6ele 6M 50 Ohm 7.1M boom design yagi. I built it from the last bits of raw aluminum in the junk pile by first assembling a boom lon... Read More
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03/10/2016 | N1JEZ
This was the first contest we operated in followng the tower rebuild project at my Camp in FN44ar. Everything worked! No issues. Read More
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03/07/2016 | WA4UF
Another January, another dismal day for propagation in EL89. Ah, well. Ironically, just a couple days before the contest, I got my first ever piece of wallpaper, for taking SO3B in North Florida in the Jan 2015 VHF contest. Read More
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02/26/2016 | KD2IOG
This was my first ARRL contest on my own, I've only participated in the 2015 Field Day with my RACES team. It's also the first contest after passing my General exam. Fortunately for me, I was limited to the bands the I have on my HT. So I set up my sta... Read More
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02/08/2016 | N6NB
This is about going off into the sunset, literally and perhaps figuratively. Until 2016, I roved or was in the single operator portable category every January since I wrapped up my career as a university professor and retired at the end of 2002. Usual... Read More
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02/07/2016 | N0URW
N0URW,,, en41,,, Iowa I wanted to test my new 2 meter and 6 meter homebrew yagi designs, what better way then a vhf contest. Saturday conditions were not good at all. Lots of static crashes to the north and east. The very few contacts made were tough... Read More
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02/06/2016 | WA6OSX
Great contest. Activity was fair and conditions on the higher bands were poor but I still had a lot of fun. I focused more on 6 meter digital operations this time. There was a great turnout of Northern California 6M JT65 stations each afternoon and I ... Read More
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02/02/2016 | K2DRH
The story of this VHF contest begins with an ice storm with 60-80 MPH winds right after Christmas that destroyed several Midwest antenna farms. While my QTH was mostly spared, the local electric distribution system was not. After 2 years of work and ... Read More
