ARRL January VHF Contest - 2021
Call: W5ZN
Operator(s): W5ZN
Station: W5ZN
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Arkansas
Operating Time (hrs): 25
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 134 70
2: 151 80
222: 35 21
432: 42 20
903: 12 8
1.2: 14 9
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 388 208 Total Score = 112,944
Club: Zilla Contest Group
Comments:
I had a nice run in this contest thanks to rovers. We had more rovers running
around than you could pack in to a city pound! It was really great.
I operated in the SOHP category. Saturday started off slow but no worse than
normal for January. Had a brief opening to the northeast early Saturday evening.
The bands went dead around 0400z and the rovers had bedded down for the night so
I decided to grab a little sleep. Around 1000z meteors and activity really burst
wide open for about 4 hours. Conditions for the remaining contest were normal
for January although frequencies above 432 MHz were difficult over some reliable
paths.
I lost around 25 or more FT8 QSO on 50.313 due to the path not holding in long
enough to complete. I still don’t understand why folks don’t migrate to FT4
on 50.318. I went there three times during the contest and spent about 20
minutes each time calling CQ and could not see or hear any signals whatsoever.
Hopefully the VHF contest community can come together on this before June.
The W5ZN station provided stellar performance during the contest. No equipment
issues. W5ZN station equipment for this contest was:
50 MHz:
Elecraft K3 (SSB/CW)
Icom IC-7300 (FT8)
Flex PGXL Amplifier
M2 6M9KHW Antenna
M2 7x7x7 stack 6M7JHV’s Antenna
144 MHz:
Elecraft K3 & DEMI Xvtr (EME)
Icom IC-9700 SSB/CW/FT8
Lunar Link Amplifier
M2 2Mxxx18 (Terrestrial) Antenna
4x17 Cushcraft 17B2 (EME) Antennas
222 MHz:
Elecraft K3 & DEMI Xvtr
Lunar Link Amplifier
2xFO16 Directive Systems Antennas
432 MHz:
Elecraft K3 & DEMI Xvtr
Lunar Link Amplifier
4xFO25 Directive Systems Antenna
902 MHz:
Elecraft K3 & Demi Xvtr
Directive Systems Loop Yagi
1296 MHz:
Elecraft K3
Directive Systems Loop Yagi
QSO breakdown as follows:
Band Mode QSOs Pts Grd Mult
50 FT8 86 86 43
50 MSK144 37 37 24
50 USB 11 11 3
144 CW 1 1 0
144 FM 29 29 1
144 FT8 54 54 33
144 JT65 37 37 33
144 MSK144 8 8 6
144 USB 22 22 7
222 CW 3 6 2
222 FM 1 2 1
222 FT8 11 22 10
222 USB 20 40 8
432 CW 2 4 2
432 FM 9 18 0
432 FT8 10 20 9
432 USB 21 42 9
902 CW 6 24 5
902 USB 6 24 3
1296 CW 8 32 6
1296 FT8 1 4 1
1296 USB 5 20 2
Total 388 543 208
Score: 112,944
Thanks to everyone for the Q’s and grids. A very special thanks to rovers
K5ND/R, AG4V/R, W5VY/R, K2EZ/R, NV4B/R, N0LD/R, K5SRT/R. I look forward to
seeing everyone in the ARRL June VHF Contest.
73 Joel W5ZN
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