[AK-VHF] RSVP: Final Plans for VHF Contest (Sat. 10am)

[Dale Hershberger]

On 1/20/2012 12:38 AM, RuthAnn Bledsoe wrote:
> Hello Ed>>>
>
>       Good job on your VHF and UHF lineup.  I should be able to work you on
> every one of those bands and modes except for 927.5 FM.  As we discussed
> previously, you'll probably get more non-146.52 FM contest action if you go
> trolling on the Valley simplex chat frequency of 146.43 in comparison to your
> posted 146.58  Just my opinion...
>
>       See you on Saturday morning around 9 AM on the VHF and Up Net on 144.2
> USB, and then off we go...
>
>                              Good luck and 73,
>
>                              Craig, KL4E
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 	
> From:		"Edward R. Cole"<kl7uw at acsalaska.net>	1/19/2012 4:39:59 PM
> Subject:	[AK-VHF] Final Plans for VHF Contest (Sat. 10am)
> To:		ak-vhf at mailman.qth.net	<ronkeech at alaska.com>
>
> Due to the cold weather I have modified some of my plans for the
> contest.  I was planning to lower my eme array and install at 60w
> 1296 linear amp and install a new 33-element 900-MHz antenna and 100w
> linear amp.  I decided there was too much risk of mechanical problems
> lowering the array, so here is the line up for KL7UW:
>
> 50.125-SSB, 125w, 3-elem yagi (55-ft) or fixed 6-elem (20-ft) yagi
> pointing SE (az=115); 50.30-FM 125w 3-elem yagi.
> 144.200-SSB, 150w, four 10-element yagis (52-ft); 146.58-FM 90w four
> 10-element yagis
> 223.50-FM, 125w, two 11-element yagis (60-ft)
> 927.5-FM, 9w, 33-element loop-yagi (15-ft);  blew a component in the 100w amp
> 1296.100-SSB/FM, 20w, 45-element loop-yagi (50-ft)
>
> The Alaska VHF Net will meet at 9am this Saturday on 144.200 USB and
> the contest starts at 10am.
>
>
> 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45
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Hi All,

I will be on the following bands for the Jan. ARRL sweepstakes contest:

      6M/2M/70CM/23/CM

lets see if I get more contacts then I had in Sept.  (Only 6)

Dale/KL7XJ