We will be out roving in this event once again. It will be a Saturday only effort and we're staying close to home. We're calling this the "Mt. Trashmore Express" starting at Willow Run GC in EN62 (Gl
Tim -- Wondering how your June rove came out. Pat and I have been toying with the idea of running Michigan grids, but haven't done so yet. I put out EN85 as a portable operation once. We stayed in Il
Pat and I will be out this weekend. We operate ABCD9E with good power and beams. We will begin the contest in SE Iowa at EN31/41/30/40. Then head north through EN31 to EN32/42. Then on to EN43/33. Ne
We will be mounting a modest rove Tuesday to the 4 corners of EN50/60/51/61 near Kankakee, Illinois. The call to be used is K9RVR/Rovair. We will have 150 watts to 10 elements on the tripod. It's onl
Friday afternoon we saw "Signs" at the local milliplex. It is, IMHO an acceptable couple of hours worth of cinema candy if you can separate yourself from reality for a while. I point this out because
I am the original owner of the above. Both very nice looking -- pix available. Everything works fine on both. The IC375A has a built in AC power supply or it can run DC. Original box, manual, handmic
I have the current Down East Microwave XVRTR for sale. It is a 144 MHz i.f. and produces 3 watts out. It works great. Attached to a 6 foot boom looper I worked K4TO from 4 grids (400 miles or so) in
We will be out for the CQ WW. Since Pat beat my score in the June Contest, we will be using her call. At the start, we will be at the four corners of EN50/60/61/51. Then we take off across EN51 to EN
The Rovairs will be at it again, but with a bit less involvement this weekend. As of last night, there is no TX from the 903 XVRTR, so as it stands now, we'll be on 222, 432, and 1296. Please look fo
I'm with Curt, K9AKS. Thanks to the DC to light rigs out there we have higher QSO counts, but fewer logs. For those who cannot devote the entire contest time for operating some may not want to bother
Two for the price of one! The Floyd and Iris (with great respect to the memory of the Colvins) of Midwest Grid peditions are at it again. Six through 1296. 222, with thanks to K9YR for the loan of an
Please watch for us as the "Family Rover" takes to the smaller sized air waves once again. Since we are a family station you can work both of us. We'll be running 6-1296, so please look for us as we
A whole lot of work stuff (office move) and family stuff (all good) kept us from prepping the rovermobile. We had planned to leave for downstate Illinois today at 3:00 PM. It's 10:30 PM and we're sti
Kind of a mixed bag weekend. Donn once asked us to give a talk on "Roving for Fun." We do have fun, and we did this time too, but we were a little disappointed that we didn't get to do all that we ha
We just installed the new DeLorme v4.0 Topo software. Cowabunga! What a difference between v2.0 and 4.0. Anyway, we're off contesting again. Remember, it's a family station, so you can work both of u
I define my interest in our service as being a VHF+Contester. As it turns out, I will not be able to participate seriously in the UHF event this year. I have not submitted logs when my involvement is