[Mich VHF UHF Society] August UHF contest?

[David Pruett]

I plan to be on for the UHF contest this weekend.  I just got my FT-847 
(used on 70 cm, plus the 144 MHz IF for 33/23 cm) back from the repair 
shop and I fixed the software problem which cost me my log in June, so I 
should be good to go with the following stuff:

    222:    100W, 16L yagi @ 73'
    432:    100W, 24L yagi @ 78'
    902:    10W, 40L yagi @ 69'
    1296:   30W, 45L looper @ 67'

I hope a lot of MIVUSers will get on this weekend, even if they have 
only one "UHF" band (222 or up, for the purposes of this contest).  We 
need to be using our bands, and it's a lot more fun when there are 
people to work :-)

73, Dave K8CC, EN82eh


On 8/1/2016 1:48 PM, Patrick Thomas wrote:
> Although it's "independent" this year, is anyone planning to get on the air this weekend for the contest?  Aug. 6-7, 2016, 1800z Saturday to 1800z Sunday   (http://www.augustuhf.org/)
>
> I got caught a little off guard (thought it was later in the month) so I'm not sure if my 220 or 33cm activity will be very useful, but 440 and 1.2G are looking adequate... as long as I can make it through the trees... see my rant from the VHF Contesting site, heh heh.
>
> Then back to roving for Sept.
>
> 73,
>
> Pat, KB8DGC EN82