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  • Dege Peak, 7006 ft above sea level, the site of the W7DK VHF contest expedition.

    09/26/2003 | W7DK

    Four members of W7DK- The Radio Club of Tacoma- (W7WG-Worth, AC7QN-Chuck, KB6OKS-Lynn, and AE7RW-Rich) backpacked two miles to (7006 ft ASL) Dege Peak (pronounced: Day-Gay), a beautiful location near the Sunrise area, located in Mt Rainier National Pa... Read More

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    09/26/2003 | VE2XX

    I found conditions were flat for the most part but a good amount of stations were on.
    I was glad to get on at a more serious level than i have in the past, I owe this
    fresh start to Warren Wb2ona, and Steve N2cei of Demi , for their encouragement, and... Read More

  • 09/24/2003 | NS1RA

    In addition to our regular operating positions, we set up a bonus OSCAR-40 satellite station using a cardboard-box horn antenna from the March 2003 QST. We operated the pass starting Sunday morning and many operators made their very first satellite con... Read More

  • Dave KM3T atop Mt. Washington (FN44ig) in New Hampshire. Elevation ~6200' MSL

    09/24/2003 | KM3T

    First time out in this contest and had a blast. Operated first weekend from Mt. Wachusett (MA) and Mt. Equinox (VT). Second weekend spent time at Mt. Wachusett again and Mt. Washington (NH). I was only able to operate about 3-4 hours average each of... Read More

  • Enjoying a warm and dry start from the operating position.

    09/20/2003 | K1TR

    Even though I didn't observe any subtantial band enhancement, decent weather and only a few equipment failures afforded a very fine contest weekend atop 6288' Mount Washington, NH in FN44. My single-op low power operation netted about 211.6k. Check o... Read More

  • My radio setup at the ski lift pole at the top of Thunder Mountain. The back groundback is Mt Baldy (10000+ft)

    09/20/2003 | KQ6EE

    KQ6EE was at the top of Thunder Mountain. On Saturday, I packed all my equipements to my backpack, and drived up to Manker Flat (5000+ft)above Glendora in Southern California. From Manker Flat, I hiked up Baldy Notch then to Thunder Mountain(8000+ft).... Read More

  • In CO70 just north of the 50 Degree grid line for CO70/CN79 in Campbell River on the east coast of Vancouver Island.   Good overwater shot to Seattle several hundred miles away.  
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Antenna farm top to bottom: 6M loop, 2M 10el, 1296 28el looper, 222 9el and 432 14el 8ft end mounted homebrew K1FO designs.  Had to leave the 903 home, TX power amp stage not working.   Solid 1.25" fiberglass rod front mast and crossboom bolted to an aluminum rectanglular stock mounted to the roof rack plus a hitch mounted rear pole withstood the miles of overgrown brush and logging road potholes.</p>

    09/20/2003 | K7MDL/VE7/R

    I was rover once again. My objective was to activate some rare grids on Vancouver Island. I managed to "justify" the trip by combining it with some excellent fishing in Port Hardy where I started out the contest from (CO60).

    Scoped out CO50 Friday e... Read More

  • The six meter antenna system: 4 X 7 element yagis switchable in different combinations. It worked fine for us.

    09/19/2003 | K1WHS

    September is THE contest for us here in FN43 in the wilds of Maine. This year we were greeted with average conditions. There was no real phenomenal DX to report. Just alot of steady operating. The big news was that we had a great group of operators: s... Read More

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