06/14/2002 | N1MU/R Greetings from the N1MU/R team: Tom, N1MU and Mark, W2FE. This contest was really great. It was our first time with our new 10 GHz setup.

We drove around 1000 miles around Lake Ontario from Rochester, through Toronto, up to Ottawa, down to Long Sault, ON (across the St. Lawrence from Massena, NY), through Watertown, NY, Syracuse, NY and finally over to Pompey Hill, NY and Cazenovia, NY. We visited FN03, FN04, FN15, FN25, FN24, FN14, FN13, FN12, and FN22 and ran 50 MHz through 10 GHz.

Mark operates from the front seat and uses an Icom 746 for 100 W on 6m and 2m and a Radio Shack HTX-100 with a DEMI transverter for 25 W on 222. From the back seat, Tom uses an Icom 706 for 100 W on 432 and as an IF radio for 903 through 10 GHz with homebrew transverters. We run a KB6KQ Halo on 6m, a 4-element 2m beam, 222 and 432 Yagis. A single dish is used for 903 through 10 GHz with three different feeds, and we run from 4 to 18 W on the microwave bands. The dish is scrap from a US Navy Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CWIS).

We logged with RoverLog running networked with and Ethernet crossover cable. -- N1MU