[VHFcontesting] September VHF contest

[Nick Pick]

ARRL 2017 Sept VHF

Hello all!
Decided to operate portable this time and we decided (Me and Eric VA2MO)
to operate on Mt-Radar at FN46ki, a 3 hours ride and it was supposed to be warm
and sunny.... not so much as you can see in the album below:

Album at: https://imgur.com/gallery/ZtFCQ

Installation when without a fuss and everyting was in order and Eric was doing
his SOTA activation and as I was looking at the sky, I decided to unwrap the tarp 
and install it just in case... of course, 5 minutes before the contest,
Murphy's Law when into effect:

https://youtu.be/qwy65XcnViU

It's was wetter, colder and inconfortable than when I was Rover in january...
after half an hour, decided to brig all the equipment inside the truck and since
I decided this time to use 20' of mast insted of 10, the coax for the 6m and the
ground plane for FM where too short... anyway, still get the V/U horizontal and a
6m vertical and decided to make somme noise on the bands and was fun anyway,
portable will be my niche from now on. Thanks to all that have worked me and special
thanks to everyone who have try! As a rookie, I have learn that cw is very important
when the band are so-so, next "upgrade" to my station would be to learn cw!

Nick VE2NGC