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  • Loopers with a 5 degree uptilt looking at KM0T over the cornstocks from EN36

    08/09/2009 | K0MHC/R

    "Fringe Roving" during the 2009 Rovermania from rare grids

    Many thanks to the Northern Lights Radio Society gang who spent the weekend on the hill. You all did a great job and we all appreciate it! While the June contest was a workup to this event ther... Read More

  • Ready to go on 432 MHz!

    08/09/2009 | KC8KSK

    I had to travel to the Atlanta, GA area for work related training the week after the contest weekend. I began to plan where I could operate from and immediately Stone Mountain came to mind (1600' + ASL). I had not been there in quite a few years and ha... Read More

  • 08/09/2009 | W9SZ

    I got to the hilltop in EN50rl at about 3:30 pm local time (2030Z) on Saturday. It had been raining and continued to rain. I set up the antennas in the rain and got drenched. I started setting up the station on a table, with a large sheet of plastic ov... Read More

  • W0AUS 222 & 432 MHz Operting tent and yagis for 432 & 222 (background).

    08/09/2009 | W0AUS

    We had talked for years about putting together a large multi-op to see if we could compete (or beat) the large multi-ops on the east coast. This year we decided to go for it!

    Planning began about six months ago with my goal of a million points. Our... Read More

  • radios set up at Pike Peak, the background are Pike Peak Toll Road and Cog Railroad

    08/07/2009 | KQ6EE

    I went to Pike Peak (14110') near Colorado Springs for my UHF contest. I only operated from 220 mhz to 1.2 ghz except 900 mhz, and only worked 4 or 5 hrs on Saturday; But I had a lot of fun. 73 Read More

  • W0ZQ/R (EN44bb) to W0AUS (EN34ir)

    08/06/2009 | W0ZQ/R

    Each year the ARRL UHF brings us different conditions. Sometimes we are awarded with tropo and work amazing distance, sometimes its a battle just to make a few contacts out to 100 km, but most the time its somewhere inbetween. This was an inbetween y... Read More

  • 08/06/2009 | K0XXX

    Dismal is about the best that I can say for this one. Only on 432 this year, but I had high hopes after acquiring a 100w brick and having a larger antenna up. It was lonely back here in the hills. Still, I'm sending in the log (embarrassing as it may b... Read More

  • I had planned to stick a PVC pipe out the sunroof and put the various beams on it. But the weather did not allow this to happen.

    08/05/2009 | KB2BSL/R

    This was one tough contest!
    The plan was to leave early Saturday morning (9:30), stop at HRO in DE for a few little things, then continue down to the D.C./Alexandria area and work my way back focusing on working many grids near high population areas. C... Read More