ARRL June VHF Contest - 2020
Call: NU4E/R
Operator(s): W4EEY NU4E
Station: W4EEY
Class: Rover LP
QTH: EM84, EM85
Operating Time (hrs): 8
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 392 82
2: 25 13
222: 0 0
432: 2 2
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 419 97 Total Score = 40,837
Club: Swamp Fox Contest Group
Comments:
We did our 2nd rover in this contest and tested the VHF station for fiedday.
This year we did not looked for new QTH and used exactly the same like last
year, EM84 on Saturday and EM85 on Sunday, even the same parking lots :-)
We were very disappointed on Saturday. We could not turn the antenna in almost
any direction as we had a wide noisefloor from 160m - 2m peaking S9+++ on 6m
except in NE and SW, we used only 2 elements so also the F/B of our antennas was
not good enough to reduce the noise. We gave up after a few hours BUT we made it
four times into Europe with our small setup.
Sunday was a different contest. Long drive up to NC, we setup the station and
heard great signals from W5, later W1-3 and W8-9 and some W0, no W6,7 and
nothing from FL this time. We started in SSB with some success and did QSY to CW
and digital. We were surprised to find a bunch of stations calling on 2m and did
2x 70cm contacts. No 222MHz, sorry for those asking to QSY.
We just had 37 QSOs on Saturday, that says it all! It was awesome to run on
Sunday a nice opening into W2 and W9 at the same time, it shifted to only
eastcoast later. All of a sudden we had clouds coming at our QTH in 6020ft and
thunderstorm with heavy rain and some hail. We had static rain up to S9 which
destroyed our great run, sorry we could not hear some of you. We thought about
stopping during the thunderstorm but as long we could hear stations we stayed
on. After the thunderstorm was gone the great opening disappeared also and we
took down the station and drove back to SC.
RIG:
FT-991a
6m 2x 2 elements (switchable so no need to turn the mast to much with our
armstrong rotor)
2m and 70cm, 3 elements duoband yagi
If you missed this event you certainly missed some fun. Our best clock hour was
157 QSO right before the storm came in and we kept going for a 183 Q run, it did
not feel like 100W and 2 elements :-)
Thanks to Gary and everybody for a fun weekend, it´s the MAGIC band !!!
Matt, NU4E
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