[LCC] VHF Contesting and the Sept contest

[Marshall Williams]

  Hello to everyone in LCC.....I have mailed my $20 to Scott to re-up my 
membership.

I would like to remind everyone in the LCC that the ARRL Sept VHF 
contest will be held Sept 11th and 12th.  The contest always starts at 
1PM local time on Sat and ends at 10PM local Sunday night.

Here at the K5QE contest station, we always need contest operators for 
the contest(s).  If some of you guys that operate HF contests would like 
to participate in a VHF contest, we would love to have you over here in 
September.  The K5QE contest station is the only Multi-Multi VHF contest 
station anywhere around here.  We have 6 operating positions with high 
power and large antennas for each position.

We have a 6M station, a 2M station, and a 432 station.  These stations 
are all independent of each other and have a complete set of antennas 
for each band--some fixed, some rotatable.  All these stations come 
equipped with a legal-limit Lunar-Link amplifier.  There is one station 
that covers 222, 902, 1296, 2304, and 3456MHz.  This station has a legal 
limit amp for 222 and moderate to high power amps for the other bands.

We now have two EME stations that are fully operational.  On 2M, we have 
8 x 18el with full AZ / EL and a full power amp.  On 432, we have 16 x 
28, fully steerable, and 1100W.  These stations can be very important in 
the score, because of their capability to work "rare" grids around the 
world.....grids that we could never get any other way.

We have the world famous "QE Motel" here at the shack.  That is a 6 bunk 
sleeping facility with a potty, sink, and shower.  Unless we get a very 
large collection of ops, that should hold us.  If we need extra space, 
we can always use Bill's 8 bunk facility.  In addition, we have a 
reputation for feeding the troops well....

If anyone is interested in operating from here in Sept, please let me 
know and we can plan for you.  If you can't make it over, please try to 
work us on whatever bands you have from 6M up.  Even if you don't have a 
6M antenna, just run it into your 75M dipole....we should still be able 
to work you.  On 2M and 432, we should be able to work anyone in LA 
fairly easily.  All contacts gratefully appreciated.

You can check out some of the station at www.k5qe.com.....there are 
pictures there of most of the station, although some of the pictures are 
outdated.  They are outdated because I now have more antennas than 
before.....

73 Marshall K5QE
www.k5qe.com
Phone is 409-787-3830 if you want to talk...
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