01/24/2009 | K0NR This year I tried something very different...I just focused on the 2 Meter band. I went up to our cabin in the mountains (which doesn't have much in the way of antennas installed....yet) and set up a M2 2M9 Yagi on the deck, driven 50 watts out of the FT-847.

Activity was very light, which was about what I expected. I made only 20 Qs but picked up 9 grids (DM68, DM69, DM78, DM79, DN70, DN80, DM89, DM98 and EM09). This is a rather high grid/Q ratio and I felt like I did pretty well in terms of picking up the available grids. It turned out that CW was critical for snagging DM69 and EM09. Special thanks to KI0SK/R for activating DN80 and DM89.

73, Bob -- K0NR