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<font face="Comic Sans MS">HF propagation </font><font face="Comic
Sans MS"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Saturday</font> was as bad as
I've seen it on FD. As a C1 I only made 4 contacts. I tried</font>
many more than that, but the only stations getting out were home
stations (with towers and amps) and they all had pile ups of course.<br>
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Tomorrow is another day!<br>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS">I missed FD last year, just mixed
up the weekend. I'm kind of looking forward to it, real radio
stuff for a change. <br>
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I mounted my screwdriver antenna on my truck today</font>.
I first mounted it on the truck about 10 years ago so the work
goes very quickly. I've not decided if I will have 6 meter this
year. I use a half wave whip for 6 and if I find the mount it is
a bolt on mount with matching network built on. Sometimes I also
have a 3/8 " mount for playing around, but with all the rain
expected Saturday it might not be any fun tuning 20 & 15 meter
whips. I'll use a mag mount dual band antenna for 2 and .70
meters, you don't get many contacts, but since I use an Icom 706
it isn't much trouble and I think it important to at least try. <br>
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This year I'll drag one of my Chinese 2.4 GHz quad copters
along. I'm curious how they will behave around a lot of RF. WWI
set up near by, they run a few stations and have some beams,
should be interesting. I'll try and get some aerial videos, which
is I guess a pun?<br>
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