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The June ARRL VHF QSO Party
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by KB1LN on June 14, 2000
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Sounds like you had a great time in the contest, Bob!! This was my first VHF contest in many years, and although I had other things going on (high school graduation party for my son with relatives from out of state for the entire weekend) I was able to work a few QSOs. Only had 2 meters for this run, with a 15 element yagi at 63 feet and 100 watts, but hope to be on the air in the fall on 2 and 6 with antennas waaaayy up in the air, and a KW on both bands!! Hope to catch you in the contest!!
73 de Bob KB1LN FN41
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VHF Contest
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by KU8E on June 14, 2000
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Hi Bob,
Nice article on your VHF contest experiences . It
brought back some memories of those couple of K3UA
operations in the mountains of PA when the boys here
in Ohio drove over to join you guys from NY/NJ. It was
kind of neat to sit around and BS about contesting ( I
think most of us were all HF contesters) and do the
VHF contest at the same time.
I also got the bug to try some VHF contesting back
then but didn't really act on it until this Spring when
I picked up an Icom 706MKIIG in Dayton. Mike , K9NW ,
had the urge to do the contest and stopped by the local
radio store on the way up to Columbus... so I had him
buy me some antennas too. We were using a setup like
you but had 3el @ 20ft on 6 and 13 el on 2 @ 30 ft.
We had a 432 antenna we put together and it wasn't until
after it was assembled we realized we needed an "N"
connector to use it !! ( A newbee mistake!) Mike brought
along his IC746 , so we had 100 watts on both 6 and 2. We
didn't have the results like you did ( on 6 meters!) but
it was still fun. I think we had about 200 contacts and
100 grids. It sure sounds like you guys down in TX were
having a blast on 6 meters. It would be nice if we could
do the same but there just doesn't seem to be as many guys
to work in your direction. Take care OM and see you in the
next VHF test.....
Jeff KU8E
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by N6AFI on June 16, 2000
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My first time in a VHF contest since 1980 when I participated in a multi-op from Santa Barbara Section - K6MEP, Ventura County Club. I had forgotten how much fun. I will do it again next year & I plan to do it right. From a location on a hill in a place that allows visible antennas. I can't wait.
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JUNE VHF QSO PARTY
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by ka4may on June 17, 2000
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Well Done, Bob!
This was my first VHF contest, and I went into it with much the same plan and expectations as I have in past HF contests. I had hoped to have the new 7 element M2 yagi ready for this contest on 6 meters, but it didn't arrive until an hour before the contest. So, reluctantly, I went with my trusty sterba curtain on 6 and a 10 element Cushcraft for 2 meters. I used my original ICOM 706 for both bands, but 10 watts output was insufficient for effective contesting on that band.
There were good openings to you fellows in Texas and Florida, a very short one to New England, but the real surprise was in the last half hour of the contest, when stations in the Pacific Northwest were coming in strong with S9+20 Db signals. Made the spotty propagation of the rest of the contest worthwhile.
That's what makes it fun and interesting... See you fellows again in the fall, from EM78. - Mark
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June VHF QSO Party
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by NW5E on August 4, 2000
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Bob I have to echo everyone comments about the test. This was the first one since 1989. If have been off the VHF/UHF freqs since then due to work commitments. I just started to put things together again after moving everything from FM19 to EL98 ten years ago. I had a ball and the conditions on 50 MHz were outstanding for a domestic contest:
50 MHz 589 QSO's 176 Grids
144 MHz 34 QSO's 13 Grids
222 MHz 5 QSO's 2 Grids
432 MHz found out at the start of the test I had a bad jumper from the heliax to the antenna
1296 MHz ran out of time to get the antenna up on the tower.
Results: 120,903 points
See everyone in September
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