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  • Special Event K5J(K5AC opr) from Lockheed Martin Club Station with a group of eager scouts.

    10/18/2009 | K5J

    The Lockheed-Martin radio club (W5SJZ) was kind enough to let us use their station again this year.

    I applied for and was granted the special event callsign K5J for this years JOTA. We operated from 9:00am to 5:30pm local time.

    We were visited by app... Read More

  • Scout leader Michael and Paul GI6FEN erect our flagpole-cum-antenna support.

    10/17/2009 | GN2BX

    A brief note on the City of Belfast Radio Amateurs' Society's (CoBRAS) successful Jamboree On The Air event from the 6th Belfast scout hall off the Cavehill Road signing GN2BX. Neither the hams nor the scout leaders involved have done JOTA before.

    I'd... Read More

  • Trying to assemble the 6M Yagi by twilight.

    10/14/2009 | WA6ZTY

    It's fun to be returning to VHF contesting after a 33 year respite. This years effort fielded SSB on 6 meters, FM on 2M, 70cm, and 23cm, I hope to add 2M SSB next time. It was quite a thrill to work 23cm FM stations 100 miles away with 10 watts into a ... Read More

  • Everything needed for five bands goes on top of the car.

    09/30/2009 | K9AKS

    This year I took my traveling QRP operation to southeastern South Dakota. I arrived Thursday evening hoping to set up and operate all day Friday and Saturday morning, but it rained all day Friday so I had to set up Saturday morning. Took a nice tour of... Read More

  • Seven rover stations line up for a photo opportunity in Joshua Tree National Park, with the bizarre shapes of the 
trees competing with toolbox stations for visual drama.  This photo was taken in the rare grid of DM23 just before the end of the contest.  N6VI's 4Runner is in the foreground at right.

    09/29/2009 | N6NB/R

    The September VHF contest was a lot of fun for everyone in the Southern California Contest Club who participated. We had eleven different 10-band stations in the field, including nine rovers and two DXpeditions to distant grid squares that we didn't h... Read More

  • 09/23/2009 | K3ZMC

    What a great weekend as I reentered field day for the first time in almost 45 years. Many thanks to the Pottstown Area amateur Radio Club in Pottstown, Pa. especially Reg, N3KAS, ED, K3BVQ, Jim, K3CHJ, Jim, K3JJC, and my own Pop N3CYO for mentoring me ... Read More

  • 09/23/2009 | VE2DSB

    Another nice VHf contest in my bag. Worked only 25 QSO's but high quality one.

    Worked F8DO JN26, DH3YAK JO31 and our friend Marshall K5QE EM31 by moonbounce. EME setup here is a single 12 ele K1FO homebrew at 45 ft up without elevation and 160w Mirage ... Read More

  • Antenna mast support constructed by Dean KC0UIO.

    09/23/2009 | WA0GUD/0

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    My first experience of operating portable on 6 M.
    I set up in the Nodaway Valley Park in Page Co. Iowa.
    I had fair results concidering I was only there 5 hours on Saturday including set up and tear down. Best contacts were
    EM18 and 19... Read More

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