[VHFcontesting] RE: Tnx

[Rick R]

Our appreciation also for those who supported our rover with so many QSOs, 
despite little propagation. Leon and I managed to stay safe and warm, and we 
went thru a similar experience of roof dancing in dissembling the antenna 
stack from the van upon arrival home at 11:30PM Sun nite--a good snow brush 
and rags helped--and luckily it's a 2 bolt operation after all the coax 
cables, waterproofing and cable ties are removed.
Much appreciation to those who moved across the bands in bunches, and those 
who kept checking for us everywhere--our calling freq of 160 seemed to get 
busy with others after the first few hrs! Yes, we also began to hear the 
ring of the snow on 10G as we made final QSOs on that band toward 10PM. Our 
only police visit was equally professional--we are known to the New Britain 
Township Police, and I now have a license plate frame that says "Amateur 
Radio" and a front call sign plate, but despite that, he told us someone 
called and wanted to have us checked out to see if we were getting messages 
from the Mars Rover! We did give him our informational trifold brochure, one 
of many we handed out over the weekend. We did 4 of the 7 planned grids, as 
the weather and temps were foreboding. The van rocked like a boat in FM28 at 
Cape May from the winds. It was difficult managing the dishes there. We did 
however make QSOs with N2MH/R and NE3I/R. TNX Bill and Christophe for being 
such great leaders and cheerleaders in VHF-micro ops and roving.   73, Rick, 
K1DS and Leon N1XKT/R

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