[NLRS] June VHF Contest planning spreadsheet

[tosca005 at umn.edu]

I took a look at the spreadsheet and added in my info.

I saw that W1AW/0 is listed as EN34ir (Buck Hill, I suppose) but I was 
under the impression that Glen planned to operate from EN25xb. I was 
reluctant to edit that cell without getting confirmation first.

Things are a bit erratic here with re-assembling the parts of my home 
station that I dragged down to Texas for the January VHF rove and for 
repairs/upgrades while down there, and then dragged back here. Hopefully I 
can get it all put back together and working properly by the weekend. I 
will mainly be on 50-1296. My 10 GHz system has been repaired (thanks to 
Gary, W0GHZ for that!). But there are two issues. The main one is that I 
live behind a big hill surrounded by lots of trees and no way to get the 
dish up higher than either the trees or the hill, so I have extremely 
limited options for pointing. I've used it from home either in my driveway 
via snow scatter one January, and in my back yard shooting across Long Lake 
to a rover who parked in the city park across the lake from me, or from my 
driveway to another rover who had returned to his home station a few blocks 
away from me in a summer contest. Otherwise, my 10 GHz activity is 
basically as a rover or as a hilltopper. There also seems to be a problem 
with either my sequencer or my wiring to the 8 watt PA, because once again 
the amp seems to be keyed continuously even when the radio and transverter 
are turned off and (obviously) not transmitting -- I noted that the power 
lead was getting warm and the system was drawing 10 amps even with radio 
and transverter off, and the power consumption dropped to near zero when 
the PA's power and PTT were unplugged. Oh well, more issues to explore, but 
these should be within my level of expertise to repair...

I hope that some more folks plan to get on for the summer season. The 
pickin's seem a bit slim so far.

John Toscano, W0JT
  EN34js June-September
  EL09ro October-May

On Jun 1 2014, Paul Husby wrote:

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>Please enter your plans for the June VHF contest on the spreadsheet:
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>http://tinyurl.com/mojspza*
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>Hope to hear lots of activity from around the midwest!
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>73
>Paul W0UC
>EN44HamRadio
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