[VHFcontesting] June Contest plan K1WHS

[David Olean]

I am right in the middle of a rather huge re building of my VHF ham 
shack. Some long suffering problems have recently been dealt with as 
well. The biggest was the removal of my 144 MHz H frame, 4 X 17B2 
yagis,  and a busted up Rohn 45 that was suspended in trees for about a 
year.  All four of the long yagis were destroyed along with just about 
everything else.Even the coax phasing lines were destroyed that fed the 
4 yagis as well as all the cabling that fed the 144 MHz LVA consisting 
of 16 5 element beams. Every run of 1/2" and 7/8" heliax was damaged 
beyond repair.  The coax was twisted and crimped in many spots.  The 
yagis look ike pretzels. Now that the debris is on the ground, and the 
trees removed,  I have been taking all the salvageable hardware apart, 
and junking all the bad coax. the main feedline on 144 was 275 ft of 
Prodelin spiralflex and it is destined for the junkyard as well. It was 
destroyed when the tower came down.  I am also enlarging my rather small 
450 watt solar panel power system up to 1500 watts, and have added  
ground mount panels and a new controller to handle the extra power that 
is now available. So all this is going on and the June Contest is 
here.   I am exhausted from all the work!  I won't be 100% active over 
the weekend.

I plan to be on 222 and 432 CW and SSB.  I also have the six meter setup 
up and running and possibly that position will be active as well, if 
WA1T comes over and sits in the 50 MHz chair. I am assuming that 50 MHz 
operation will be CW and SSB as well.  I am thinking that any operation 
will be Saturday evening  and then Sunday morning.   I repaired one of 
my 903 loop yagis, but never got it installed back on the tower. That 
work is another project and there are just so many hours in a day.  I 
plan to use ON4KST Chat when I am in the shack.

73

Dave K1WHS