ARRL June VHF Contest
Call: N1PRW
Operator(s): N1PRW
Station: N1PRW
Class: Single Op Port QRP
QTH: EMA
Operating Time (hrs): 5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 19 15
2: 1 1
222:
432: 1 1
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 21 17 Total Score = 374
Club:
Comments:
Portable QRP operation on Sunday from Holt Hill in Andover, Mass. Elevation
420'.
Sunday weather: Mostly sunny and dry, 72F
Station Equipment:
- Yaesu FT-817ND @ 5 Watts
- 1/2 wavelength 6m aluminum dipole, homemade
- Elk 2M/440L5 portable log periodic antenna
Perfect weather for hiking and spending the day outside. Band enhancement Sunday
afternoon allowed for great DX. Equipment operated well and as designed. A
single 12V 9Ah sealed gel battery provided power all afternoon.
QSOs were almost exclusively DX on 6m with one local exception working
50/144/432.
6m enhancement allowed a personal VHF QRP DX best of 1,300 miles to South
Dakota. Most QSOs were with midwest and southeast stations. However, I wasn't
able to convert the excellent condx into a high score, the result of spending no
time on 144/432 to build up points. Multipliers are useless without UHF points
to jack up the score.
Time was the biggest enemy as I needed 5-20 mins per QSO to break through
pileups. I successfully got through 36% of pileups that I tried. Thanks for the
patience to work my weak signal. The QSOs were worth it.
I wondered if a better strategy for points would have been to sit on one freq to
call CQ and be found by stations who could actually hear me well. I might have
increased my QSO count, but I wouldn't have broken my personal distance record
that way.
Station photos here: http://shawsheen.com/2018/arrljunvhf/
73 Alexander N1PRW
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