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    01/25/2011 | WB2AMU

    Here is an additional photo that I was not able to include in my initial soapbox comment.  We had some much snow around that after the Six Meter beam fell down from the wind while in an umbrella stand, I made use of the five-foot high snow bank to "pla... Read More

  • 01/25/2011 | N6ZE/Rover

    Pete,  N6ZE, conducted a small Rover operation in grids DM04 & DM03 during the January 2011 ARRL VHF Sweepstakes Contest. X-YL Robin, W7PBJ, did some logging while we drove South to DM03 for her to purchase terracotta flower pots at a nursery in El Seg... Read More

  • 01/25/2011 | WD6DBM

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    01/25/2011 | WD6DBM

    ANOTHER great SKN!  I tried to make it an all Heathkit night, but got flummoxed by some nasty local noise that required the DSP noise reduciton on my K3.  For most of the event I was on a highly modified HW-16 built by my Elmer, W5NYT.  I also used a p... Read More

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    01/25/2011 | N2YTF/P

    I wasn't able to contest on Saturday, but Sunday was free and my friend and new ham Jesse, KC2YUG was up for a challenge, so Sunday with temps in the teens Jesse and I decided to contest from the summit of Hook Mountain http://www.sotawatch.org/summits... Read More

  • 01/24/2011 | N1DPM

    Everything all checked out and ready to go 1 week before the SS.  Now for our annual New England mid January ice storm followed by the deep freeze.  Was I even going to be able to get on???  We got lucky and some temps in the low 30's and bright sunshi... Read More

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    01/24/2011 | NL7HJ/R

    Two solutions to the January doldrums in Alaska: 1) hop an Alaska Airlines jet nonstop to Hawaii, or 2) work the VHF SS. No sunscreen required for Option 2! Another 1,100 mile rove, starting in Homer on Saturday morning. From there, worked Grids BP40, ... Read More

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    01/24/2011 | K0AWU

     Activity was better than what I feared for the contest. Pretty much the same as the last 4 years. Prior to that we had a bit of 6m Es in Jan that would help with activity and the grid count. I ran on 6,2,222,432,902,1296 and 10Ghz. Unusual here, but I... Read More

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