02/01/2004 | K2QO/R My rover partner Paul, W2TAU and I embarked on a 400 mile journey through EN91/92 and FN01 on Saturday followed by FN02/03/12/13 on Sunday. While activity was very light Saturday, Sunday was FB!

We ran ABCDEI and Light for our best rove yet with about 35K points, more than doubling last years effort.

1296 was awesome Sunday night with numerous random Q's from the Rochester gang.

The most memorable Q came when K2AXX asked me to do 10G from our second last grid. I reminded him that we'd broken the coax to WR90 transition and were out of action. Since we were line of sight at 10 miles, he told us to simply stick the end of the feedline out the window. SHAZ-ZAAAM! 10G at 10 miles on CW with no antenna on our end! Very cool. (His setup is nothing to be taken lightly I might add.)

Additions this year included a DEMI 1296 XVTR running about 2.5W to a HB 15-el Quagi and a cushcraft 2/446 dual band beam for FM. Having one op mine the FM contacts was a superb plan for us.

I have not seen in the reports any really cold WX. We had -3F on our hill in FN01 and saw -15F on the late night drive from Union City to Erie, PA. With temps this cold, the rotors were groaning as the Bury-Flex coax was stiff as a board.

See y'all in JUNE! -- K2QO