Gary, W4EEY and I were again Rover during this years ARRL VHF contest. We choosed the same QTH as last year but a bit different setup. Gary is in charge of the VHF station during the Greer Amateur Radio Fieldday at the end of June and we wanted to try the setup before that event. …
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I guess I more and more like CW contest. I used to be SSB only, did some CW and RTTY but with the smaller antenna`s it is more fun on CW even I´m not far as good as I could be 🙂 but that´s just because I´m to lazy to practice more. As I recently …
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Like I wrote in my last post I’m moving from my apartment to a house. I was living in Greenville and now moved about 30 miles to Inman. It’s not having multiple acres on a hill 🙂 but some trees are around and I hope to have 1-2 wires permanently installed some day, but the …
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I´m moving to a new QTH 🙂 maybe having some wire antennas soon. The leaves are coming back to the tree’s but I tried to throw some rope into some trees just before the SSB sprint. I wanted to try it from this QTH. It was not easy the get the rope over a decent …
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I have not planned to play in this years CQ WPX, but a lots of mails were on our local Swamp Fox email reflector and it got me hooked at some point to at least give it a try for some hours. I set up 2 antennas, like I wanted to on the RTTY while …
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