2004 ARRL June VHF Contest
06/20/2004 |
KC0RAD
Just wanted to add my two cents to the soapbox and to say what fun I had. I am a fairly new technician and this was actually my second contest (participated in the Jan 04 contest). My goal for this contest was of course to improve my score, ie. more contacts, grids and bands used. I am happy to report that I doubled my contacts and got lots of new grids. Although my score is no where near the top it is still a great improvement. I also learned alot during this contest so watch for me to be closer to the top in the future.
My furtherest contact on 6 meters was ZF1DC in EK 99,
2 meters was in EN 52 and EN44,
440 was in EN 52
(I also now have more contacts on 440 then my husband)
I owe all this to my husband (N0TTW), first for building and putting up some new antenna's, and second for having to be out of town and unable to participate, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten close to the radio (Thanks Honey, I Love You!!) Would also like to thank my local Ham Buddies KC0HLN and KC0AKJ for encouraging words and help. Want to also say Hi to the only other female I made contact with, K9ILT.
We (myself and N0TTW) have limited abilities as we are in an apartment. But as shown in pictures is our small station and the homebrewed antenna's. This is what our station consists of:
Radio equipment:
Yaesu FT-100D All-mode radio. VHF/UHF cable is attached to a duplexer to split the 2m and 440 bands in order to feed the RF Amps. The 2 meter amp is a Mirage B-5016-G running at 150 watts. The 440 amp is a Mirage D-100-TVN running 100 watts.
The 6m/HF connector is connected to a 2-position switch that allows switching from verticle to horizontal antennas, while running 100 watts into them.
Antenna Equipment:
All the home brewed antennas were designed using EZNEC and were attached with RG/8 coax.
The 6m antennas consist of a YAESU ATAS-100 verticle and a home brewed Bent Dipole on a rotator with the 2 and 440 antennas. The 2m antenna is a home brewed 3 element Yagi beam. The 440 antenna is an 8 element Yagi beam.
Thanks everyone for the contacts had fun, be listening for me, 73's KC0RAD -- KC0RAD
My furtherest contact on 6 meters was ZF1DC in EK 99,
2 meters was in EN 52 and EN44,
440 was in EN 52
(I also now have more contacts on 440 then my husband)
I owe all this to my husband (N0TTW), first for building and putting up some new antenna's, and second for having to be out of town and unable to participate, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten close to the radio (Thanks Honey, I Love You!!) Would also like to thank my local Ham Buddies KC0HLN and KC0AKJ for encouraging words and help. Want to also say Hi to the only other female I made contact with, K9ILT.
We (myself and N0TTW) have limited abilities as we are in an apartment. But as shown in pictures is our small station and the homebrewed antenna's. This is what our station consists of:
Radio equipment:
Yaesu FT-100D All-mode radio. VHF/UHF cable is attached to a duplexer to split the 2m and 440 bands in order to feed the RF Amps. The 2 meter amp is a Mirage B-5016-G running at 150 watts. The 440 amp is a Mirage D-100-TVN running 100 watts.
The 6m/HF connector is connected to a 2-position switch that allows switching from verticle to horizontal antennas, while running 100 watts into them.
Antenna Equipment:
All the home brewed antennas were designed using EZNEC and were attached with RG/8 coax.
The 6m antennas consist of a YAESU ATAS-100 verticle and a home brewed Bent Dipole on a rotator with the 2 and 440 antennas. The 2m antenna is a home brewed 3 element Yagi beam. The 440 antenna is an 8 element Yagi beam.
Thanks everyone for the contacts had fun, be listening for me, 73's KC0RAD -- KC0RAD
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