[VHFcontesting] [RVHFG] Re: NS9E/R Field day!

[tjennin2 at rochester.rr.com]

Tim,

How did you do roving for field day?

We did pretty good vhf wise and of course hf did really well!

73,

Tom kv2x


> On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 08:02 -0400, tjennin2 at rochester.rr.com wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > K2TER and I will be operating the K2TER VHF Rover as VHF station of
> > the
> > W2RDX Field Day effort. 6 thru 10 gig with these changes: 6m on a
> > tower and 
> > 2 m thru 1296 at the top of a 100 foot tower! Will be able to do SSB,
> > CW, and FM. 
> > 
> 
> Tom and Bill remind me to pass on to everyone that I will be QRV for
> Field Day this year, as well, for the first time in several years. I am
> doing something very different this year: roving! I will be driving from
> Reno to Great Basin National Park in East Central Nevada during the
> early hours of the Field Day period. I will be driving back during the
> later hours. I will be driving along Hwy 50, which passes through a
> number of rare grids. I will have 100 W on 6 and 2 meters only, no HF.
> ( 0C?? ). Halo antennas on both bands. I doubt many of you on the East
> coast will hear me unless we have a heck of an opening. But those on the
> West coast might. I am traveling to the park for an astronomy event. So,
> if we have lousy weather, I might operate some extended hours in the
> rare grids.
> 
> If I have time, I will post a list of grids.
> 
> This is the beginning of my efforts to get back into contesting, at
> least a little bit. If things go well for me in the next few years, I
> might have a good contest site again. If things go really, really well,
> I might have a 10,000 foot mountain (in a very rare grid) to put my
> station on!
> 
> Tim Stoffel, NS9E
> 
> 
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