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  • radios set up at Pike Peak, the background are Pike Peak Toll Road and Cog Railroad

    08/07/2009 | KQ6EE

    I went to Pike Peak (14110') near Colorado Springs for my UHF contest. I only operated from 220 mhz to 1.2 ghz except 900 mhz, and only worked 4 or 5 hrs on Saturday; But I had a lot of fun. 73 Read More

  • W0ZQ/R (EN44bb) to W0AUS (EN34ir)

    08/06/2009 | W0ZQ/R

    Each year the ARRL UHF brings us different conditions. Sometimes we are awarded with tropo and work amazing distance, sometimes its a battle just to make a few contacts out to 100 km, but most the time its somewhere inbetween. This was an inbetween y... Read More

  • 08/06/2009 | K0XXX

    Dismal is about the best that I can say for this one. Only on 432 this year, but I had high hopes after acquiring a 100w brick and having a larger antenna up. It was lonely back here in the hills. Still, I'm sending in the log (embarrassing as it may b... Read More

  • 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

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