Results for 2012 ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes for K6BRW/R
Class: Limited Rover
RoverLog QSOs by Activated Grid:
Grid QSOs Grid QSOs Grid QSOs
CM97 11 DM07 24 CM95 9
DM05 16 CM96 12 DM06 37
RoverLog Score Summary, Using new rules:
Band QSOs Value QSOPts Mults
50 22 1 22 6
144 51 1 51 7
222 14 2 28 2
432 22 2 44 3
Grids activated: 6
Totals: 109 145 24
Claimed Score: 3480
Comments:
This was my first January contest but I knew it would be much slower
than previous contests (2x June (worked the club station at fixed
sites), last September as a Limited Rover.)
With a week to go everything was looking great. The possible horrible
(read dry) winter we've had was going to be a good thing. All of that
changed starting on Friday. A big storm blew into Central California.
I started up at about 4200' (or so) in DM07 south of Shaver Lake. They
had some snow the night before but it didn't look to bad. It was slow
going at the beginning and around 20:00 UTC the snow started getting
heavy, the 6M HO Loop was detuned from snow so I bailed off the hill.
I had planned to move to another DM07 hill that had a better view to
the west and north. Fortunately that was it for bad weather.
I made my way down to the Madera (CM96/CM97/DM06/DM07) convergence and
worked the afternoon there and headed home for the day. About 0430 UTC
I jumped back in the truck to see what I can pick up (a decent group
has been getting together locally the last few months on 144.200
around 20:30 local (from DM06). I picked up a few over the next couple
of hours.
Sunday afternoon I made my way out to Kettleman CIty
(CM95/CM96/DM05/DM06). Unfortunately, I missed most of an opening to
Colorado. It was still pretty quiet most of the afternoon but still
managed a few new grids so that really helped out the score.
Can't wait for June!
Patrick May
K6BRW
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