[VHFcontesting] September VHF contest

[Sean Waite]

Hi Nick,

It really was chilly Saturday night, at our FN32 stop it got down to about
10*C.

I tried listening for your a couple times, but it was pretty chaotic
getting set up at both of our Saturday sights so I couldn't spend a whole
lot of time. Roving is a ton of fun, and a very good way to avoid issues
with your home QTH being in a valley or restricted from having antennas.

CW is useful, it's something I need to work on more as well. I can kludge
along if need be, which is good enough for this sort of contest.

What are you using for a mast? Looks like PVC.

Welcome to the portable club. Now you get to spend every day until the next
contest determining how to improve your locations and station!

Sean WA1TE - K1SIG/R

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:35 AM Nick Pick <nicolasgagnon at hotmail.fr> wrote:

> 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
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