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  • I had planned to stick a PVC pipe out the sunroof and put the various beams on it. But the weather did not allow this to happen.

    08/05/2009 | KB2BSL/R

    This was one tough contest!
    The plan was to leave early Saturday morning (9:30), stop at HRO in DE for a few little things, then continue down to the D.C./Alexandria area and work my way back focusing on working many grids near high population areas. C... Read More

  • 08/04/2009 | N1KAT

    Had a great time from a new spot in FN53 Maine that Bill, N1KAT, found. Good horizon and NO TREES! We got a late start and broke down early Sunday before the rain. Many needed FN53 since our 2001 operation there.

    10Ghz worked great once we found where ... Read More

  • The antennas for my 3 bands.

    08/04/2009 | KB9KTD

    Sick of living in "Dead Valley" bottoms, Mississippi River Valley in
    LaCrosse, WI, I set up some old scaffolding outriggers and a fence post,
    (pipe). Threw my fancy DC to near daylight transceiver in (TS-2000X) and headed for the hills. I had a very bi... Read More

  • Mount Equinox in Vermont: FN33kd

    08/03/2009 | W1AUV/R

    Another good UHF Contest this year. This is usually a slower contest than say June or September but I always have fun.

    Saturday I was on Mount Equinox in Vermont (FN33kd). The weather was beautiful. Activity started off slow but picked up as the day we... Read More

  • FD chairman Tom, W8FIB, fills our balloon with helium for a 100 foot vertical!

    08/03/2009 | W9LJ

    Field Day 2009 was the best ever in a series of upward scores and involvement for the Lake County ARC of N/W Indiana under the calls of W9LJ (main stations) and W9EMA (GOTA station). Our location was on the grounds of the EMA building in Crown Point, ... Read More

  • 4 - 22 element k1fo style sold by Charles Byer's  (k3iwk)kits
reffered by k4sz several years ago, finally got around to purchasing and assembling antennas, homebrew dividers,phase lines.

    08/03/2009 | KE4WBO

    We ran 2 bands 222/432 at home instead of rover, conditions ok up to the state line hearing n2cei(downeast) el89 rover near Live Oak and kq4pi el99 near Bunnell.
    Mostly testing out new 432 array after several attempts getting phase lines correct, it ... Read More

  • UHF and Microwave Antennas on Rotating Towers

    08/03/2009 | KB0HH

    This was a tough contest!! We made 29 contacts after 24 hours of operating. Tad, KC5DPT, and Dave, KA0KCI, worked hard for each and every one of them!! KB0HH cooked and worked the microwave bands .. .. and made an occasional CW contact on 222 MHz an... Read More

  • 222 and 902 mhz stations

    08/03/2009 | N6SJV

    The ARRL UHF contest was great fun, as always. We operated under the Lodi ARC club call but it turned out just to be a family event. A generator failure kept us close to home this time. So we operated portable from the back yard and set up adjacent to ... Read More

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