OLD KATHLEEN LOOKOUT DN09 in 1984 VE7PRC/7

Here is an interesting photo I came across in my ham radio album.It is a Picture of the Mount Kathleen Forestry lookout near Peachland ,BC in 1984 during the June ARRL VHF QSO party contest .That is Denny Warner VE7ASY standing in the doorway and the tent you see next to the lookout had frost on it in the early morning.... At that time ,the Penticton Amateur Radio Club VE7PRC had a few VHF operators including myself that were crazy enough to haul a whole lot of equipment and supplies to the top of some mountain for a weekend. We used a stacked quad array of 10 el lindsay yagis for 2 m with an Icom ic 211 running 10 watts into a 100 watt klm brick amp. For 6 meters we had a homebrew (old CB) pair of 4 el beams with an early Yaesu ft620 6 meter rig that put out 10 watts at best (more like 7 watts) .A large 6 meter linear was only a pipe dream in those days.(Later on the following year we managed to scrounge a 100 watt Brick amp for the weekend) Even with only 7 watts out on 6m , we still worked are share of grid squares in the northwest and in midwest and managed two hundred plus contacts on 6 and 2 meters from dn09 in southern BC. The road was almost impassable in numerous places that weekend and the last 500 ft was more of a creek bed than a road! more old pics coming soon......buzz