published by n2yo on Sun, 2015-01-25 22:37
Found condx first night to leave a lot to be desired. Stations were not
as strong as I've seen them past contests, and just didn't seem to be as
many at any given time. Just didn't have the seemingly endless pile-up
as in the past.
published by n2yo on Sun, 2014-12-14 19:02
Trying new stuff out. In the past, I've never had an antenna lower than 120 feet that I could turn and use in domestic contest. That was really miserable. Day before the contest, a friend gave me a 5 ele 10 meter yagi that K7SV and I got up the day of the contest.
published by n2yo on Sat, 2014-12-06 19:04
The crew at The Goat Farm (NR4M) once again had a great time in the CQWWCW Contest. While every year it becomes more and more difficult to find operators available Thanksgiving weekend, we continued in the Multi/Multi category to give everyone plenty of time in the chair. At Goatville there is always a desire to be as competitive as possible, but ensuring that everyone enjoys themselves is always important.
published by n2yo on Sun, 2014-01-26 19:13
Conditions down from last year. Thanks for the contacts. 73 de Steve, NR4M
published by n2yo on Mon, 2014-01-13 01:44
Team: PVRC Rappahannock 2. Comments: Few things went right.
published by n2yo on Sun, 2013-12-29 21:51
K7SV and I got our 'wires' crossed and wound up going over time badly. He thought I started last and I thought he was going to take a couple of hours off in the wee hours. Only missed it by about 50 minutes.
published by n2yo on Mon, 2013-12-16 22:35
Operated when I could, on/off over the weekend. Mostly running, with very little S&P. My antennas are better suited for DX than close in stuff. I did wind up learning where I can, and can not, work using the higher angle back lobes of my antennas. Was consistently working the upper mid-west off the back of my SA stack at 35/70 feet pointing @155. Was much better than my lowest rotatable antenna @120 feet.
published by n2yo on Thu, 2013-11-28 03:17
Great to see good propagation for the contest. Seemed this was the year for hardware failures, both before and during the contest. 'Stuff' happens. Too much food and not enough full time ops. Of course, if we had the ops, the food would have worked out fine.
published by n2yo on Tue, 2013-05-28 15:11
Regardless of condx WPX CW is always fun. This year atmospheric weather was quite good with fairly low noise on the low bands. Solar weather wasn't so good, but that's part of what makes things fun. It was a good weekend to know something about skewed paths!
published by n2yo on Wed, 2013-02-20 22:46
As we've frequently said before, it's always nice to have new folks operate with us. We has the same Carolina folks with us that did last year (W0UCE and N3ND) plus N1LN. It was great to have both Bills back from Lynchburg. As always the local group was fun, and had fun. Without them on Sunday afternoons, we wouldhave trouble covering bands after the traveling guys depart.
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