[VHFcontesting] correction

[k4gun at comcast.net]

I just got an e-mail from a guy who is part of the grid dance crew.  He told me that N6TEB is not, nor has ever been part of their group.  I'm a little skeptical of this claim due to the soapbox of N6NB/R, but that is the claim.  This person also informed me that N6TEB only activated 3 or 4 grids in June.  That isn't contradicted by the soapbox, but the soapbox does imply that he had a good contest.  

I just wanted to post this information.  I want to stress that I am not implying that anything improper was done.  I posted out of curiosity.

For the record, there is the soapbox entry by N6NB/R:

More and more, roving seems to create a sense of community in amateur radio. These photos show a meeting of rovers--and a non-rover--in California's Mojave Desert. In the photo at left (left to right) are: N6MU/R, K6MI (who operated with W6TE/R), KG6TOA/R (in rear), AF6O and W6TE/R. Not shown is N6NB/R, who took the photos. We all met in the desert to lend AF6O a 10-band "toolbox" station, shown inside the tailgate of his Ford Bronco. In the other photo, a second similar toolbox station is shown atop a rotor on the roof of an SUV. 
Despite the road sign visible in the photos, the weather was NOT icy in the desert! 
AF6O took the toolbox station home and operated from his garage in Pinon Hills (DM14), with the whole setup resting on the Bronco tailgate three feet above the ground. As a fixed station operating at home, Jim worked rovers KG6TOA (in rover-limited), N6TEB (in "classic" rover), N6MU (rover-unlimited), N6NB (in "classic" rover) and W6TE (rover-unlimited) a total of 146 times at the Mojave/Bissell convergence, 76 km. from AF6O's home. The toolbox stations produced surprisingly good signals over that path. 
I didn't get a photo of K6VCR, who used another of the 10-band stations and operated in the single operator QRP portable class on Mt. Soledad near San Diego, DM12. K6VCR worked N6TEB/R 30 times, spanning paths of up to 300 km. on 2.3, 3.4, 5.7 and 10 GHz, on his way to a very good QRP portable score. N6TEB/R, operating with KE6HPZ, also had a very successful weekend. K0DI and KF6YYV--an alumnus of these rover excursions--had a great multi-op outing on a nearby mountaintop. They worked the rovers mentioned here about 200 times on all bands through 10 GHz. Before the contest was over, we visited 15 grid squares and took part in a LOT of microwave activity. It was fun. -- N6NB