[NLRS] sept contest.

[Ken Boston]

Hi all;

I do plan to be active for most of the weekend this upcoming weekend, with my 6 band station.  I have been making some changes so may have lower power on 50 meg this trip, and have been running the 2 x 5 element vertical array, so will not be doing well on 50 meg ground wave.  1296 is still sick, but I think I have found the problem in the feedline, and hope to change out a jumper up on the tower, and I hope that fixes it.

I did a short rove last Monday, Labor day, up to Green Lake county, and worked about 10 stations locally, of which several stations needed to collect for the WIWUCH program. (144 meg only) Congratulations to John, W9RPM, who has now worked all 72 WI counties.  I tried 2 different stops while up there, and found that the first one was the easiest to set up in. (3 mi NNE of Markesan)  I also learned that; 50 watts is a little 'lite'; my tripod will blow over in a 20 MPH gust; everything takes a little longer that you think it will; and a few other items that I had unlearned from my Roves 20 years ago.  (EN55, for the FFMA guys, before the FFMA existed, and for the guys on 144 collecting their initial 100 grids)

I will be getting my August UHF log in, late, so it will be a check log.  This was due to a multitude of factors.  My score should be in the 14K area, with only 8-9 hours invested.  At least the submission will add one more to the total, showing support.

More later;

Ken  W9GA