Good morning all, Its going to be a cold contest in Northeast CT.It will be rough setting up on Friday/Sat. Please note we are hill topping and not at the home QTH. Its a local hill with +400 el
Hi All, Just back from the hill and the top is all ice. Hoping we can get the tralier up there. Next trip will be with a pick-up truck load of sand and some salt. -8F this morning and predicted to be
Hi All, We're all set up for 50M-10GHZ. Climbing the hill was rough but plenty of plowing and then sanding the trailer made it up the first try but with lots of wheel spin. Tomorrow's WX is warmer th
Good morning all, I got home late after the contest. All the equipment is buried in the 10" of new snow from yesterday and about 14" over the weekend. Cooler heads and common sense prevailed and we d
Good morning all, During the last contest we expanded the bands we worked up to 10G from the bottom 4. This created a huge problem. We had to shut down the 2, 220, and 432 stations to use the upper b
Thanks to all for the suggestions. Limited time and budgets mean we will have to make a list of solutions, proximity of antennas to each other being the easiest and cheapest. Running a portable set-u
Hello all, Starting Friday morning (maybe Thursday night) The Hamcow will be operational from the west end of Martha's Vineyard Is, MA IOTA NA-046, Dukes County. We will be there for the NEQP but wil
Good morning all, I'll be calling CQ on 144.210 this morning until 7:10 EDT from FN41AU. Pointing s/sw I hope to catch some ducting. 73, Paul KE1LI _______________________________________________ VHF
Good afternoon all, I hope your recoving well from the busy 6M weekend we had. Great propagation. Little in the way of double hop but single hop kept us busy. My only complaint........... No one come
Good morning all, FYI.... KE1LI/2 will be operating from FN12 for the contest. I'll be camper and using 6M loop and stacked 2M Loops. Very casual with beer in one hand and burger (or steak) in the ot
Hi Guys, I'm trying to drive a 1296 Xvertr with my TS2000 but the lowest I can power the rig is 5W. Does anyone have any insight? BTW..... I'll be on the bottom 4 (maybe 1296 if I can get up on the b
Thanks to all for the comments off these two yahoo group pages. I have located the original DEMI controller that takes care of the job nicely. Should be here tomorrow. Out of all the suggestions that
Good afternoon all, I'll be on for the June VHF contest with the bottom 6 bands (hopefully). The bottom 4 tested last night 100% with PAs. 903 & 1296 will go up this weekend. Look for us. 73, Paul, K
Good morning all, A friend of mine is thinking of roving for the contest. The site below was an excellent source for hill top locations. www.n2mh.net/rovesite/rovesite.htm I can't seam to get a respo
Update. Good morning all, I spoke with Mark last night about the website listed below. It will eventually be back on the web. Without getting into gruesome details his domain name has been help hosta
Good morning again, Mark has resolved the rover site issues. Info is up and running at: http://www.n2mh.net/rovesite/ There is a spot at the bottom of this page to report any sites that have potentia
Good morning all, As my contest hangover lingers I'm still in awe of the propagation we saw over the weekend. Still hoarse from replying, it will be a contest to remember. Many thanks go out to the r
OK...... I'll fess-up. This is a new propagation mode for me and with a potential storm I have some questions. What are some productive methods for working this mode? What emission mode is best for a
Good morning all, I'm part of a group that travels to Martha's Vineyard Is. every year to light up Dukes County in the New England QSO party (NEQP). We noticed that it lands on the same weekend as on