The June VHF contest results have been posted at http://www.arrl.org/contests/results

My local club is the Bergen Amateur Radio Association (BARA) and we operate the VHF contests from a location on top a mountain that is a previous location of a Nike Missile Base. We setup 2 towers, 2 tents to operate in, put up 144, 220, 440 and 6m antennas on the towers and run off generators for the weekend. We start Saturday afternoon and shutdown midday on Sunday, so we don’t operate the entire time the contest is running.

Our club call is K2BAR and it looks like we finished 37th overall in the contest, 11th in our class, 1st in the Hudson Division (!!!!) & 1st in ENY (East New York). We show as 5th in our class in the Northeast Region which covers the following divisions: New England, Hudson and Atlantic Divisions; Maritime and Quebec Sections.

I think for this contest I stayed in my vehicle overnight 3am-6am when I had the generators off and took a quick nap. When I woke up, I fired up the generators and got back on the air just before some others started coming back to get on the air. It’s a lot of work with a small group of folks to load up a truck with all the tower parts, cables, tents, chairs, generators, etc, travel to the site, put up the towers, setup the equipment, operate and then take everything down and return it to storage.  It sure makes it worthwhile when we have a good time operating and are rewarded with a good result!

73,
K2DSL