[VHFcontesting] September VHF contest

[Paul Kiesel]

Hey Nick,

When you visit FN56 for us next E season, the weather will be nice! :-)

73,
Paul, K7CW
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On Tue, 9/12/17, Nick Pick <nicolasgagnon at hotmail.fr> wrote:

 Subject: [VHFcontesting] September VHF contest
 To: "vhfcontesting at contesting.com" <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
 Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2017, 5:34 AM
 
 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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