VHF mountaintopping from Vermont to Alaska...


Here is a sampling of photos from the first 30 years of VHF mountaintopping by K6YNB (N6NB after 1977).   It started out with simple AM and SSB equipment in a car, but the station quickly became more complex.  Soon there were specialized vehicles (the first was billed as "the cabover kilowatt" on a QST cover) and eventually tower trailers. Before this early period was over, there were moonbounce DXpeditions, contest efforts in six ARRL divisions and non-contest operations in more than 30 states. 
 
 

Modest beginnings in a car... 
 
 

The first "cabover kilowatt" had a 40-foot tower and generator...
  ARRL Field Day, 1972
 
 
Mobile moonbounce?  Not quite, but we operated in two rare states.
  This led to K0MQS's first-ever W.A.S. award on two. 
 
 
I had great fun contesting on Mt. Pinos, CA in the 1970s.
This operation in the second "Cabover Kilowatt" yielded a #1 score.
  California to Vermont, 1979... 
 
 
Preparing for a contest on a prime eastern mountaintop...
  This led to a national record score... 
 
 
Portable once more in June, 1993...


Thanks for scrolling down memory lane with me!
-Wayne Overbeck, N6NB

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