I just spent Tuesday thru Saturday at W1AW/5 down at NR5M antenna Ranch. I wanted to thatnk George NR5M for his hospitality and to Chris N1XS for coordination the event. I had an absolute blast. We were over 18,000 contacts when I left.
It was great to operate this super station in non-contest fun environment.
NR5M has a killer station with multiple amps and operating positions. During the week I got to watch moon bounce contacts and meteor scatter activities (Thanks Marshall). In over 40 of Hamming I have never down this.
The bands were great and the antennas were phenomenal!! I operated RTTY on 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10. Talked to many friends I have made on the bands over the years.
On Saturday morning, I worked a large pile up of JA, YB and VK on 80 (Gary WA5FWC got the run going, He was up all night and I took over at 4 am) and on 40 meters.
On Friday night I work almost all of the VK and ZL in the world on 10 meters. NR5M has a 4 stack of Yagis a Two stack of Yagis and a single lower 30 foot 4 element yagi on 10 meters. The Lower single yagi was used for all of the pacific contacts and they were very loud!!
I did most of my contacts on 40, 20 and 15 in to Europe and the US.
RT - when you are ready to put your team together for your turn with W1AW/5 let me and WA5FWC know we would be more than happy to operate!
Gary WA5FWC took lots of pictures I will post them when I get them.
If you want to see George's Super station and watch the live web cam go to http://nr5m.com
Again thanks to George and Chris for the fun!!
Does this mean were still doing the office work next Saturday or has this been called off?
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a gued time, does this mean the work you called me about doing yesterday is now on for next Saturday or has this been called off, give me a heads up when you have time so I can make myself available. Thanks /Joe
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