CQ WW VHF Contest 2009 From Decorah Peak in Photos
Mike, N0EXE unloading his gear from his motorcycle trailer and preparing to head to the top of Decorah Peak.
Mike setting his dual band Arrow antenna up on the south ledge of the peak.
Mike does a good impression of Jungle Jim hacking his way through some brush around the base of the rock.
KC9ECI's set up including a 7 element 2M yagi, Icom 703 and 706, 6M dipole, and a solar panel on loan from Mike.
Mike doing his impression of Scotty from Star trek trying to coax a little more juice out of the gel cells so we can stay on the air a little longer.
Mike's sleeping arrangements.
Supper cooking on a pair of alcohol stoves custom built by KC9ECI. Beans on the right, beef stew on the upper left. Mmmmmmmm.......
Mike getting ready to work some VHF with his Arrow antenna and FT-817,
Sunrise from the top of Decorah Peak Sunday morning just before 6AM.
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Looks like fun
Nice pictures. I hope you made a lot of contacts during the event.
Were you able to work a lot of states?
I had fun working stations during the contest.
No, we didn't make a ton of
No, we didn't make a ton of contacts, but we had fun. We're looking in to doing it again for the ARRL September VHF QSO Party. Maybe not from the same location. This was a learning experience for us to see what worked, what didn't. We will probably get a camping trip in sometime in August to try some new stuff out. Check out the videos I compiled from our Decorah Peak trip at
We should get you up here for this contest next year Greg, it would be a blast.
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