ARRL September VHF QSO Party
Call: W3DHJ/R
Operator(s): W3DHJ
Station: W3DHJ/R
Class: Rover LP
QTH: CO: DM77-78-87-88
Operating Time (hrs): 14
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 26 9
2: 55 9
222:
432:
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 81 22 Total Score = 1,782
Club:
Comments:
RoverLog QSOs by Activated Grid:
Grid QSOs
DM78 15
DM87 29
DM88 15
DM77 22
RoverLog Score Summary, Using new rover rules:
Band QSOs Value QSOPts Mults
50 26 1 26 9
144 55 1 55 9
Grids activated: 4
Totals: 81 81 22
Claimed Score: 1782
My rover web page: http://jonz.net/W3DHJ/vhfrover.html
I had a late Saturday 6M opening into DM64-73-74-75-85 which REALLY
helped. However, there weren't many operators on the air in those grids
during the opening. College football, do you suppose?
All that work and I only get 9 grid multipliers on 6M and another 9 on
2M. It sure felt like I did better than that, but the logs don't lie.
High/Low-Lights:
Using the N8XJK 12 Volt Boost Regulator. http://www.tgelectronics.org/
That sucker is FANTASTIC! IJFW! Recommended.
Working some new fellers that I had not worked before. And, working
several fellers that were site- and/or antenna-challenged on either 6M
or 2M. GREAT SPIRIT, that!
I had power problems late on Saturday. Shortly after moving from DM87
to DM77 (grid #3 for the day), I suffered an intermittent, but
persistent, LARGE voltage drop on the 12VDC running to the gear. I
aborted Saturday's operation early -- making only 10 contacts from DM77
and NO contacts from DM78.
So, Sunday morning -- instead of rovering -- I re-did the dedicated
12VDC lines from the battery posts into the passenger compartment. A
visual inspection showed nothing, and the physical dis-assembly and
re-assembly of the battery post connectors, the spade connectors on the
battery post connectors, and the in-line, blade-style fuse holders
revealed no problems.
But, something I (re)did fixed it, because I had no problems for the final
nine hours I put in on Sunday.
I did get desperate several times and moved to 146.46/.49/.55/.58 and
called "CQ" -- and I won't ever let that occur again. The results were
zilch and I doubt if anyone there would know what a "CQ" was.... HI!HI!
I did not get the memo that announced that everybody was going to quit
the contest 1 1/2 hours early. My last contact was with N0LL at 0128Z.
I heard no other sigs after that -- maybe some ESP scatter on 6m.
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