[VHFcontesting] Mt. Washington NH & Acadia National Park- Cadillac Mountain - Eastern Nantucket VHF Operation

[Ed Kucharski]

Hi Chris! I've op'd from Block Island (FN41), Cape Cod FN51 (near the Marconi site) and from Mt. Washington (with K1TR multi back in '98 the link tells it all... Awful wx!  https://www.qsl.net/k1tr/contesting/vhf0698/vhfcontest.htm
In FN41 and 51 I was operating in the QRP portable category and did pretty well.
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Contest%20Records/2016/2016%20September%20Contest%20Records.pdf
Scroll down to the Single Op Portable Class (Q) and look for WB2DNE/1.
Hard to attract attention as people were beaming away from me a lot of the time. Both times we (my xyl and myself) rented a cottage and used a marine deep cycle battery to power the rigs (to keep within the QRP portable category rules at the time). We extended our stay the week after the contests and made them both in to a nice vacation. We were fortunate that the wx was excellent the following week!
73,
Ed K3DNE


>     On 10/12/2022 12:41 PM CHRISTOP PATTERSON <w3cmp at comcast.net mailto:w3cmp at comcast.net > wrote:
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>     Hello all -
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>     Spent the last week driving through New England. Capped off trip with a nice visit at a local bar with Dave K1WHS. While visitng eastern Nantucket (FN51), driving through Acadia National Park- Cadillac Mtn. (FN54) and later taking the cog railway up Mt. Washington (FN44) the thought occurred to me that these locations would bet it would be a pretty neat place. to operate from, and maybe do a VHF contest. Wonder who (other than Dave) has tried rover or portable VHF operation from these locations? What the experiences have been? How needed are FN51 and 54 for VUCC on 2 and 432?
>     I'd like to discuss particulars
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>     73, Chris W3CMP
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