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12/10/2006 | SM2CEW
This years contest represents a 20 year anniversary of ARRL EME contesting at SM2CEW! Scores have been better in earlier years, but the contest continues to bring lots of fun and excitement even after 20 years.
I had a very good time in the 1st leg of... Read More -
12/09/2006 | N0DET
Since I live in a condo, and past contests with the gutter "antenna" yielded a desire for something better, I decided (on a whim) to do something different. At about 9:45pm I grabbed a spool of wire, and spooled out two lengths wire, about 130 feet ea... Read More
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12/09/2006 | WD5AGO
Another, after 25 years, fun contest. We just operated 13cm again this time. Wanted to give the small dish another try, WITH improvements! Same SS 200w amp at the dish, but new feed horn after 6 months of design work. Dish is up to 64% eff. up 7% f... Read More
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12/08/2006 | UA3DJG
After almost a year of preparation Nick (UA3DJG) and I were QRV on 1296 portable EME under the call UA3DJG in both parts of the ARRL contest. The station consisted of a portable 3.6 m stressed dish with f/d = 0.4 and DFC septum/choke horn feed, RIG, tr... Read More
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12/07/2006 | PJ2T
Claimed Score: 182,490 - 1185 - 77
Station:
Radio: FT-1000MP Mark V Field;
Amp: Ten Tec Titan III;
TX Antenna: Inv-L (~60 feet vertical, rest sloping up to 90 feet);
RX Antennas: USA Beverage (750 feet), Flag (USA East Coast), F... Read More -
12/06/2006 | K0HW
Well I tried it in the QRP class this year in the 160 Meter ARRL Contest and I probably will try it again based on this years success. I feel that a lot better score could be reached with higher antennas. My plan sometime is to try a 5/8 wave vertica... Read More
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12/06/2006 | KY5G
Managed to work 7 or 8 hours this time. Conditions for me were pretty good with the east coast coming in strong here in WWA. Heard good signals from all over the US (except did not hear Florida).
Equipment here was a 400 foot center fed zepp up about... Read More -
12/06/2006 | K4TD
This was my second year to operate in the multi-operator category. The team this year was VE7ZO, NX1T and K4TD. We had a great time both on and off the radio, as expected. Being a CW traffic handler, I have always enjoyed the CW Sweepstakes, and thi... Read More
