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In early May, the veteran team1 of Paul Newcombe, N2EME, and Chuck Gress, K3NXH, converged on FM13bx Kure Beach, North Carolina, to activate one of the most needed grids on the Atlantic Seaboard. Their well-equipped, two-band portable station (Photo A) consisted of an IC-7300 driving a Harris SSPA on transmit and, on receive, either a FCD with SDR Console V32 or the IC-7300. In either configuration, an ARR preamp was utilized in the receive path. The 50-MHz antenna was a seven-element LFA (loop-fed array). On 2 meters, the transmit lineup consisted of a TS-2000 driving a 1.5-kilowatt Larcan SSPA to four 12-element LFAs and, on receive, a FCD with SDR Console V3 with an ARR preamp completed the station.
Using N4EME as the GriDXpedition callsign, Paul and Chuck managed to make 205 QSOs. According to Paul, “the 6-meter station worked flawlessly” as they
