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09/13/06

Been a rather busy last few weeks, but it has been good!

Built a 70cm corner reflector and that worked out really well and seems to work quite well.

VHF Contest this past weekend and I did VERY well (for me :-) in it: 

Summary:
Different Stations.: 16
Different Grids....:  5
 50 MHz contacts...: 14
144 MHz contacts...: 10
432 MHz contacts...:  7


Extract from xlog and cleaned up a bit:


DATE	      GMT  CALL	BAND  MODE GRID
----------- ---- ------ ----  ---- ----
09 Sep 2006 2057 VA7ISL   50  USB  cn88
09 Sep 2006 2059 K7CW     50  USB  cn87
09 Sep 2006 2059 K7CW    144  USB  cn87
09 Sep 2006 2058 N6KW    144  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 0218 K7MCX    50  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 0348 N7KC     50  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 0350 W7GLF    50  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 0351 W7GLF   144  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 0352 W7GLF   432  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 0353 W7FI    432  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 0540 VA7ISL  144  USB  cn88
10 Sep 2006 0540 VA7ISL  432  USB  cn88
10 Sep 2006 0608 N6KW     50  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 0642 KD7HGL  432  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 0643 KD7HGL  144  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 0644 KD7HGL   50  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 1506 WA7BBJ   50  USB  cn97
10 Sep 2006 1507 WA7BBJ  144  USB  cn97 
10 Sep 2006 1508 WA7BBJ  432  USB  cn97
10 Sep 2006 1543 N7EPD   432  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 1550 W7FI     50  USB  cn87 
10 Sep 2006 1552 K7EPD    50  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 1658 K7WIA    50  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 1728 WB7AKE   50  USB  cn96
10 Sep 2006 1835 K3UHF/R 144  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 1847 W7FI    144  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 2043 K3UHF/R 144  USB  cn98
10 Sep 2006 2051 WE7X     50  USB  cn97
10 Sep 2006 2117 NA7O     50  USB  cn87 
10 Sep 2006 2122 NA7O    432  USB  cn87
10 Sep 2006 2122 NA7O    144  USB  cn87

Quite pleased, the FT-726R is a pleasure to operate, even more so now that I am starting to be able to use some of the features!

08/23/06 - 2211 PDST

Getting this together, much work to do. Getting the FT-726R has re-inspired me. More to follow!!