[NLRS] K0CQ contest

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

I'll be on 6 and 2 weather permitting. Forecasts are not great, 
thunderstorms Saturday and Sunday and severe thunderstorms Thursday into 
Friday.

The 432 antenna is showing so high a SWR at the rig that the 857 is 
shutting down. I replaced some of the feedline in the house and the 
duplexor at the antennas without great improvement. The N coax connector 
was loose on the 432 antenna. I need to test the duplexor on the roof 
with a good dummy load. The SWR on 2m is nearly perfect. The antenna on 
432 is a K2RIW that I had in the air more than 30 years. It may have 
gone open. I have another one like it that I'll check and try to get up, 
maybe a FO-09 that has tested good at CSVHF a couple times and is only a 
couple years old with no weather exposures. The wind and rain in the 
next three days will determine whether I get to the roof. I was detoured 
from that today by having to go sign paperwork for a gas line easement 
through my farm. The gas company finally agreed to my terms. Then I 
needed to fix an outlet in the shed that I destroyed yesterday with a 
power rake winding up an extension cord. A new Airstream axle is due 
about 50 miles from here tomorrow so I'll need to go pick it up if it 
isn't too stormy.

6 and 2 work good, 432 may be working or might not be. Monday after I 
changed some things I couldn't copy N4PZ which is a really bad sign.

73, Jerry, K0CQ