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  • 01/21/2008 | N1DPM

    Conditions were the typical "flat" January conditions, however the cold, dry, windy weather just aggrevated the power line noise in my area making hearing weak ones difficult. The activity level was low from my perspective. I worked 4 more grids than... Read More

  • radios setup on Mt. Disappointment, the background is goverment towers

    01/21/2008 | KQ6EE

    Kq6ee was on the top of Mt. Disappointment (5500+') in Los Angeles basin on both Sat. and Sunday. I hadn't did any contest for a while because of the family and school. It is excited to do it again. It was windy on Sunday. The weather was so good (... Read More

  • 01/21/2008 | N8QE

    VHF band conditions could not have been worse for the contest. No E's or Ground Wave openings for me in Northeast Ohio. I did manage to triple my contacts from last year, but that's only because I added stacked KU4AB SQ50s and a TS-2000 running 100 wat... Read More

  • 01/21/2008 | WA1RKS

    Well I thought it was going to be a great one with the onset of the opening into 4 land right off!! but then the RF Trolls came along and scoffed up all the RF laying around the upper layers and stole it!! So we settled for a non exciting event. I stil... Read More

  • This is me at the "Cattle Pens" operating site. I set up on the right side of the bridge overpass.

    01/21/2008 | N0JK

    I set up my portable station Saturday at the "Cattle Pens" in the Flint Hills of EM18 2 hours before the start. I turned on the 6 Meter radio to check the SWR and heard very loud CW down in the beacon band. The W9DR/b on 50.062 MHz in EL86 was booming ... Read More

  • Here is my setup on Sunday with a three-element Six Meter Yagi (up only ten feet because of the wind), a three-element Two Meter Yagi on a telescope tripod on the car roof, along with a vertical for my 220 MHz handheld HT.

    01/21/2008 | WB2AMU

    As with other ARRL VHF Contests, I operated the January event in the QRP portable catagory from a hill located in Central Long Island in grid FN30.

    Having done this for over ten years and enduring snow storms and cold weather for the January event, it ... Read More

  • 01/19/2008 | N3YNT

    For the last several years I have want to work SKN, but this was the first time I've been able to participate. I had a great time using a Ten-Tec Corsair and a Bencher Straight Key. I had six QSOs, all of which were enjoyable, with the following statio... Read More

  • AB6QK's Straight Key Night "original" station, Including Heath DX-40 transmitter and VF-1 vfo, sitting atop a National HRO-60 receiver.

    01/19/2008 | AB6QK

    For several years, I had wanted to revive as much of my old 1959 novice setup as I could for SKN. I finally did it this year! I still had everything but the original surplus/homebrew receiver. I used my father's (W6ZIF - SK) HRO 60 which he gave to me... Read More

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