[NLRS] cq vhf

[Zack Widup]

I went to the hilltop in EN50rl, managed to get the 6 and 2 meter Yagi
antennas set up in the hot sun, hooked everything up and it seemed to be
doing fine. Antennas were working and SWR was good. I called several people
over about a half an hour on 6 meters with my FT857D. None of them seemed
to hear me. I was only running 10 watts as a QRP Portable Hilltopper. Then
I saw smoke come out of the rig and then no power came out. It still
received OK. I checked both 50 and 144 MHz and had no power output on
either band. So I took everything down and went home.

The rig did quite well up till now. I used it in the June VHF contest. I
don't feel like digging into it right now to see what went bad. I'm sure I
can repair it if I can get the parts.

I only had today from about 1 to 6 pm CDT to participate. I can't be on
tomorrow. But I'm sad that I didn't make a QSO.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 12:57 PM Rich <richn0hjz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I hope to hear many of you near 144.200 this weekend. I’ll be there
> decoding most of the time.
>
> Rich N0HJZ
> EN34cm
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jul 15, 2022, at 7:37 PM, Mary Brown <maryalanab at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Well looks like 2m only for me, my Ham IV rotor crapped out... no way
> will I get it swapped out this weekend. Thinking of replacing with a Spid
> Rau to standardize rotors
> >
> >
> > Mary
> >
> > W0AAT
> >
> > EN24ho
> >
> >> On 7/15/2022 7:34 PM, Matt Arthur via NLRS wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I will be on from home in en33 for the cq vhf contest.
> >>
> >> However not right at the beginning.
> >>
> >> Hope to hear everyone on.
> >>
> >> Thanks 73 Matt ka0pqw
> >>
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