ARRL June VHF QSO Party
Call: KA1ZE/3
Operator(s): KA1ZE
Station: KA1ZE/3
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: FN01
Operating Time (hrs): 21
Remote Operation
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6:
2: 375 79
222:
432:
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 375 79 Total Score = 29,625
Club:
Comments:
Rain, rain, rain! Lots of lightning and rain static... = best personal effort
from FN01.
I think conditions were normal with brief enhanced tropo to the south Sunday
evening. About a month ago I installed a new antenna to the farm. It is a 4
high stack of G0KSC designed OWL 12 element yagis on 26 foot booms. Testing
this antenna daily with weak signal CW stations over 550 miles gave me a great
feeling that it was certainly the best antenna I have used. The top is up @ 160
feet and down to 130 feet. This stack is working better than the smaller 4 high
5 element YU7EF yagis. Most of my contest contacts on Sunday came from the
smaller stacks due to the precipitation static on the top array.
Weak 500+ mile CW stations W9EWZ, KT1R, N4QWZ, K4LY (the K4LY, SC QSO was made
while I was working Maine station KT1R)all made it in the log before the
lightning storms. 10 stations (N3LL, K5QE, K2DRH, K0TPP, N0LWF, ND0B, N0KK,
WA4CQG, W9JN, W0SHL) made it into the log on FSK441 meteor scatter. The new
rule allowing use of chat pages (Ping Jockey, ON4KST) made this possible. I
normally had never set up QSOs in advance of the contest so working M/S
randomly was difficult at best. My other 69 grids were all SSB/CW tropo.
I would like to thank all of the rovers that braved the storms to hand out
contacts. A special thanks to N2SPI that put in a significant effort to hand
out the rare grid square FN24.
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