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  • Mobile "BuddiStick" with 33' of stealth antenna wire supported by two balloons.

    02/22/2007 | N4LS/M

    I had the opportunity to improve my mobile CW skills while driving and sitting in my driveway. My rig is a Kenwood TS480SAT (100 watts with built in tuner), mini-straight key, laptop with Get CW software, a BuddiStick portable vertical mounted on my t... Read More

  • 02/22/2007 | K5BZH

    Felt lucky to make 105 contacts, band conditions were very poor. Pileups on DX stations was indicative that many U.S. and Canadian stations were having to share only a few opportunities.

    73,
    Jim Read More

  • 02/21/2007 | N4T / R

    This was my first real rover actvity. I have, over the years, been traveling during a contest and given out a few contacts. The plan was to activate 8 grids on the Natchez Trace Parkway from Nashville,TN to Natchez,MS using 5 bands. The old Ham adversa... Read More

  • The 160 Ft tower holding dipoles at 120-100-80 feet for 160-80-40 Meters

    02/21/2007 | C6AHR

    We went back for another year in the Bahamas. Early Sat AM I could see my breath, so don't eat your hearts out that it was warm all week. Signals were strong, and I got good reports all week. The EU stations were stronger in C6 than I ever heard in ... Read More

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    02/20/2007 | K

    We were all psyched up to beat our former totals but two snow days - sure cramped our style. However, since October SCR we got our tri-bander hoisted -- not too far off the ground, but good enough to hit several DX stations.

    Our two farthest were in o... Read More

  • 2/432 Yagi on the truck.

    02/20/2007 | KC0P/R

    It is fun being a Rover because I can drive to a hilltop with better propagation than I have at home. Being at the grid square corner puts me 90 miles away from the Minneapolis/St.Paul population center and difficult to break thru the chatter on 144.20... Read More

  • 02/20/2007 | KK3OQ

    599 Read More

  • 02/19/2007 | WB6IYM

    Another year come and gone, and I have still not improved upon my antenna situation; ahhhh procrastination!! Perhaps this summer will find me the pround new owner of a Big IR vertical with 80-meter base loading coil...Then we will see my 2008 score im... Read More

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