12/09/2009 | WA4UF Just found the lost log sheet for the contest and uploaded it. Better late than never, right?

This was the first contest with my newly rearranged shack and tiltover wooden tower. Antennas were the same as the last couple of contests- homebrew yagis for 6 (4el), 2 (10el on a warped wooden boom) and 70cm (15el). On the hamshack end of the cables was a new-to-me Icom 271H for 2m, and the old faithful 451A for 70cm and 551D for 6m, the latter with a cheap Radio Shack audio DSP that works pretty well, all things considered.

Conditions on the band were up-and-down, with several long gaps where I heard NOTHING, and other long stretches where I was busy elsewhere and missed some openings. I did catch a couple of periods of high activity, and I netted more contacts on 70cm than I thought I'd be able to with just 10W. That 15el Yagi really works well.

All in all a pretty fun time was had. I do have to put together a new 2m beam though; that twisted boom can't be doing me much good! -- WA4UF