ARRL VHF QSO PARTY -- 2001
Call: N7IR
Category: Single Operator Portable
Section: Arizona
Location: DM44 (7332' ASL)
BAND QSO QSO PTS GRIDS
50 96 96 63
144 21 21 8
432 9 18 4
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Totals 126 135 75 = 10,125
Equipment Description:
50 and 144 MHz: Elecraft K2, Ten-Tec 1208 and 1210 transverters
432 MHz: RS HTX-100, Microwave Modules 432-28S transverter
Antennas: 3el 6m Yagi at 33', 9el 2m Yagi at 17', 18el 70cm Yagi
at 26'. 33 and 26 foot Portple(tm) masts
Soapbox:
Broke the old section record by a factor of 4. Learned a valuable
lesson about laptops: don't use them in battery only operations.
Six blew wide open the last three hours of the contest and I was
running off two crippled batteries. Between swapping batteries
and waiting for them to recover I probably lost half of the opening.
The last QSO was with W6OAL in DM79 who supplied the masts that
helped to make this operation so much fun.
73
Gary, N7IR
DM43bi
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