[NLRS] VHF contest

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

I plan to be on from home. I won't have the 2m PA that worked part of 
the time last year. I destroyed it this evening. Shorted coax and too 
much drive left it with probably shorted PA transistors. At least it 
draws enough current without being keyed to pull a 30 amp Astron down to 
less than 1 volt output. I hope enough Astron regulators survived.

I expect to have a D1010N working on 432, 50 watts on 2m and 100 watts 
on 6m, to the roof top antennas I've used for several years. Providing I 
don't blow up the D1010N tomorrow.

I was figuring on roving, but the 6m antenna I ordered in March hasn't 
arrived and probably won't ever arrive. A June contest without 6m could 
be really quiet. I need to work on a tower and better operating position 
with real coax too.

I'll be monitoring 6 and 2 simultaneously.

The forecast for here is for storms late Saturday afternoon and evening 
through to Sunday morning. I'll be off when I hear the first rumble of 
thunder. There is a forecast for 1 to 2 inches of rain west of I-35 
overnight.

73, Jerry, K0CQ