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  • Brrrr.. Good day to stay inside

    01/31/2005 | N0URW

    This year I ran hi power on 2,,,6,,,222,,,432 & 1296 in the single operator section...()...
    The worst blizzard and hi winds we have encountered so far this year hit my qth en41 Iowa ,, Friday night Saturday morning ..We had total white out conditio... Read More

  • <b>DL0SHF</b> 23cm feed in 9,5m dish - 1kW PA not installed here. Also visible is a cross-yagi for 435 MHz satellite operation.

    01/31/2005 | DL0SHF

    Thanks to all - I had great fun operating DL0SHF on 23cm this time. The system worked fine and I could have worked more stations, as I was only active for 2 x 7 hours. Signals were good and I could work small stations. I have also seen that there is so... Read More

  • SV1BTR 2m array 16*6 xpol 1.1wl 22dbd

    01/31/2005 | SV1BTR

    SV1BTR was active in ARRL 2004 EME International Contest as Single Operator, 50-1296MHz. Non assisted.
    No self spotting, clusters, chatrooms was used. Operation was in CW random only, except for 2 cw skeds on 70cm.
    I am extremely happy with my result ... Read More

  • 01/30/2005 | KB8U

    Recipe:

    Sprinkle 1/8 tsp. tropo on frozen rotors. Add 1 marginal E-skip QSO and 7 'pounds' of QRN squeezed from power lines for 2m. Dust with 1 foot of snow and bake at 0 degrees farenheight to keep the rovers indoors.

    I threw in the towel early Sund... Read More

  • 01/29/2005 | W6DWI

    "The Little Station that Could"

    This is the first time I made a real effort for a contest.

    I ran QRP portable from CM89 with 10W on 50/144/432 into 2/4/6 el quad.
    Rig was FT-897 @ 10W w/ TCXO and 2.3 kHz IF filter. Portable power was
    Internal batteries... Read More

  • EN24 - Winsted, MN

    01/29/2005 | KC0IYT

    This year's rove was almost abandoned the Friday before the contest, as a snow storm hit Minnesota during the day Friday. After discussing conditions with several people, I reversed my plans in order to stay on major roads since those would be plowed ... Read More

  • 01/29/2005 | N3AWS

    This was a cold contest to operate single op portable on Sunday. On top of that, I made zero QSO's on Sunday! Hopefully next year I'll have my RV back and available for this contest.

    Made only two 6 meter QSOs. Worked my own grid and the adjacent gr... Read More

  • 01/29/2005 | WB8BZK/R

    On Sunday I roved from Cleveland (EN91) through EN81, EN71, and EN61 on my way home to the Chicago area. When I arrived in Chicago I quickly ran the four local grids.

    Murphy hit hard with the winter storm and also by taking out my lower three band (6/2... Read More

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