[AK-VHF] September Contest Announcement

[Edward R Cole]

Paul,

Thanks for the reminder.
Sept. 12/13 Alaska Time: http://www.qsl.net/a/ak-vhf//Contests/

Though with near 80F wx and blue skies it seems 
far away - fall will be here soon.  Fireweed 
blooms have topped out at our place signaling end 
of summer (almost).  But the nice wx is good to 
get tan while getting those outside projects worked on.

I just pulled 160-foot of 1-5/8 inch Heliax to 
replace my over 40-year old 1-5/8 line.  Making 
tests at 144 (0.98 dB), 927 (3-dB) and 1296 
(11-dB) the loss for 120-foot run is no longer 
good.  New stuff should be 0.32, 0.95, and 1.13 
dB respectively.  I installed the connector on the house end tonight.

Not sure what we will see for 6m but will be 
trying all bands up to 1296 next month!  Got to 
get the other end ready with connector before 
this weekend for the 2m Dubus eme 
contest.  Should see about 100w more at the antenna on eme.

The net will resume at 9am Saturday on 144.200 USB!

73, Ed - KL7UW

At 08:25 PM 8/5/2015, Paul Kiesel via ak-vhf wrote:
>Howdy, everybody -
>Mother nature was not very kind to us during the 
>CQ WW VHF test. With all that geomagnetic 
>storming going on, it was pretty tough to work 
>any non-local stations. If you were planning to 
>send in a submission but didn't, it's now too 
>late, as the deadline passed three days ago. You 
>can make up for it by being active in the 
>September contest. The announcement and link to 
>the rules appears on the AVG Contests page here:
>Alaska VHF-Up Group Contest Page
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>I hope as many members as possible will get on 
>and make some contacts during the contest. And 
>send in your logs!  I hope everyone works at least one new grid.
>73, Paul K7CW / VE7IBAVG Contest Guy
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73, Ed - KL7UW
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