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September VHF Contest 2025 — Butt-in-Chair

The September VHF Contest is usually slow, with few or no six-meter openings. That’s what happened this year, although I did manage to boost...
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CQ VHF Digital Contest 2025 — Working from Home

For the last several VHF contests, I’ve operated single operator portable or hilltopper from EM01 near Hico, TX. I actually “worked from home” for...
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ARRL June VHF 2025 Edition — Single Op Portable — Fun in the Sun, Not in the Rain

The ARRL June VHF contest typically offers numerous QSOs, with seasonal Sporadic E propagation facilitating long-distance QSOs on 6 meters. That’s what I experienced...
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K5ND Operations — 2024 Recap

I’ve typically posted an annual report on website traffic. This year, when developing a new presentation on VHF Operations, I built some maps and...
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ARRL RTTY Roundup 2024 — QRP Style

It’s been a while since I’ve entered an RTTY contest. I started with RTTY contesting in 2013 and ramped down in 2016. Along the...
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