[NCC] VHF Contest

[Thomas Roscoe]

I recently acquired a new FT450D portable rig that has 100W on 6M. 
Friday night I threw together a 4 element 6M beam from some junk parts 
and got it up 40', field day style, with an armstrong rotator. It was a 
very busy weekend but managed to get on and make 60 contacts. A couple 
good ones worked were PJ2/K8LEE, EA8/DL3GCS, YN2PR, YS1AG, KF4VTT/VP9. 
Also worked K8MR, K8MFO, VE3EJ, W8KEN. I turned the rig back on Sunday 
morning at 1:00 AM and CQed a couple times into a dead band only to be 
called by a station in Utah. It now seems that a permenant 6M beam must 
go up.
73,
Tom K8CX