01/31/2004 | KC5OBX/R My wife and I set out here in West Texas set to activate 6 grids here in our area. We spent all day Saturday prepping the truck to go out, a calm day little chilly but calm. We woke Sunday morning to 25mph winds and this made things interesting. See, I had mounted the top section of a tower into the back of my truck with three beams on it. We set off and worked several stations here locally, conditions to other places were not there. We activated DM93, DM94, DM84, DM83, DM82, and DM92. We were operating a 706 Mark II for 6m, 2m, and 432 and an Alinco DR 235 Fm rig for 220. The beams were, a converted DPS beam to 6m, a 12 element 2m beam and a 11 element 432 beam. We had a great time and we are looking forward to the next contest in June. -- KC5OBX