The ARRL September VHF Contest from Maxwell Butte September 14-15, 2001, W7ZOI and KA7EXM.
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1 The ARRL September VHF Contest from Maxwell Butte September 14-15, 2001, W7ZOI and KA7EXM. Posted 16Sept02, Updated 18Feb03 Maxwell Butte is a small peak in the south west corner of Oregon's Mt. Jefferson Wilderness area. It is reached by a fairly easy trail from highway #22 from the west, or cross country from the interior of the Wilderness. Although we had visited the peak a couple of times from cross country routes, we had never taken the more common trail route that we picked for the VHF contest this fall. An abbreviated map of the area is shown. We were in this area about a year ago with members of the "Adventure Radio Society" for their 2001 Rendezvous. The elevation of Maxwell Butte is 6229 ft with no peaks of comparable or higher elevation in the immediate area. Three Fingered Jack is considerably higher, but is 3 miles to the NE. Note the co-ordinates at the map corner. This places Maxwell Butte in Grid Square CN94. We drove down to the trailhead on Saturday morning and spent the better part of the afternoon doing the hike to the top. Although the distance is only 5 miles, there is still 2500 ft of elevation gain, so it took some time. We had moderate packs, for we carried all the water we would need for an overnight camp plus equipment for the stormy weather that had been predicted. We lucked out and the weather remained calm for the entire trip. Near the end of the climb the views begin to unfold to the south with great shots of Mt. Washington and the Sisters. However, it is not until we finally reached the summit that
2 Mt. Jefferson and ' Jack could be seen. We made and consumed a quart of lemonade upon reaching the top, and then proceeded to get on the air and to get our tent pitched.
3 The view above shows Mt. Jefferson 15 miles to the north. The east and north faces are heavily glaciated, but the south face is nearly bare this late in the year. Although lost in
4 haze at this time, Mt Hood was clearly evident the next day. A tether line extending to a rock is attached to the front of the 144 MHz Yagi antenna to prevent the antennas from rotation in the breeze. Not shown is another antenna, a dipole for 50 MHz strung between the trees.
5 This view shows Roger operating the station. The antenna is now pointed south-west toward CN73 on the coast. That's Three Fingered Jack in the background.
6 Here we have Wes cooking a dinner of freeze dried pasta primavera.
7 This photo shows Roger operating on Sunday morning. Results were outstanding with numerous contacts with old friends and new acquaintances. The best DX was on the 144 MHz band, with both CW and SSB contacts to CN88 (Canada) and CN98 (US side of the border.) We used Roger's FT817 transceiver, powered by an 8 amp-hour 12 volt Gel-Cell sealed Lead-Acid battery. We got several hours operation from this combination, typically developing an output of 2.5 watts, but kicked up to 5 watts when needed. An especially interesting contacts was with Tom, KD7LXL, who was also running low power from his CN87 home. Tom used an FT817 with a 9 element M^2 Yagi on MHz. (Tom is KA7EXM's nephew and W7ZOI's grandson.) Some of the established friends who contributed contacts on several bands included W7PUA, K7AYP, WA7MLH, WB7RSG, and WA7TZY. Although 144 MHz was the dominant band, results were also good on 432 and 50 MHz. The Six meter band, with just a dipole, was surprisingly interesting. It's always fun for the two of us who have only modest (at best!) home station antenna systems to operate in really good locations. A dipole on a high peak can be much more interesting than a Yagi on the flats!
8 The total is 63 QSOs with a multiplier of 24. KA7EXM did all of the operating while W7ZOI served as a cook and pack animal, with only casual comments on the air. We would have shared in the operating, but the ARRL rules only allow one operator in the QRP category. ARRL has Field Day categories that allow for two operators with one station, but do not allow it on VHF. Go figure... The equipment available for portable operation is now quite good and moderately priced. It is surprising that more folks are not willing to take their stations into the field. There were at least a dozen additional peaks that could have been reached on foot that we could see from Maxwell Butte. They were sitting there, waiting for operators. We had a ball and the fun is just waiting for others to join in. Update: Feb 18, The March 2003 QST just arrived and I noted that this effort got us into the Top Ten. Truely amazing. We were really quite causal with the effort. Our high position suggests that there is not much competition in the Single Operator Portable category. Click here to go back to the W7ZOI web site.
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