ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes
Call: W6/HA2YOU/R
Operator(s): HA2YOU
Station: W6/HA2YOU/R
Class: Rover QRP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 148 16
2: 188 18
222: 151 16
432: 161 18
903: 129 16
1.2: 132 16
2.3: 128 16
3.4:
5.7: 128 16
10G: 128 16
24G: 128 16
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Total: 1421 16 Total Score = 1,098,000
Club:
Comments:
My "Two-pack" of rover stations scored stupid huge points in the 2004 VHF SS.
It's easy for me to understand how to do this simply by reading the rules and
taking advantage of the ARRL Contest Desk's good nature by violating the intent
of those rules with impunity. It took me all of several minutes to think
through, so I decided to build two mobile stations. Lucky for me, it required
very little testing but a lot of conniving.
This project began a while ago when I stuffed a bunch of new equipment into the
VW Microbus. Because I thought that the best submitted Rover scores were the
best because they "did the deed" like a pack of wolves, I decided to build a
second rover in my wife's station wagon. That thing can hold 9 people (as is
evidenced by all of the soccer games she was the "taxi" for). I decided to
outfit it with a Quad-band HT (6m, 2m, 440, 1296), a 222 HT, a 900-MHz TV
Modulator, and a cordless telephone (2300 MHz). With the ABCD9EF covered, I set
my sights on the other bands. I then realized that I had two garage door
openers (10 GHz) and two "tri-band" (10, 24, LASER) radar detectors, and two
LASER pens. After building a couple of 24-GHz WBFM transmitters, this gave us
ABCD9EF+IJP. GAME ON!
It dawned on me that my mission (to submit a world record score by ignoring the
intent of a VHF Contest to work as many other stations as possible) required me
to simply get a bunch of licensed hams in the station wagon and drive through a
bunch of grids. If they were all family members, then they could simply pass
the microphone from person to person and I got to log 'em! As luck would have
it, MY OWN FAMILY had 7 licensed hams in it. Only 8 year old Bobby wasn't
licensed.
Almost exactly a week before the contest, I took Bobby to the testing site,
slipped the examiner "a fiddy" and moments later, Bobby walked out with his
passing certificate. Amazingly, his call appeared in the FCC database on the
day of the contest! We now had operator #8! GAME FRIGGIN' ON!
During the contest, we had no equipment failure, but I soon realized just how
often 8 year olds must stop for bathroom breaks. This was fine, as it allowed
us to stop-motion long enough to pass the mic's around, getting all 8 calls into
my log from each grid's rest-stop.
We covered 16 grid squares, beginning in Orange County California (DM13) and
ending near Mt. Lassen (DN90). Along the way we passed a train of hamradio
equipped SUV's that refused to work me, even though I often stopped at the same
rest stop as they did. Go figure. Some people just aren't as friendly as
others I guess.
I thought that my efforts would meet with scrutiny. So I solved that by doing
what any red blooded American immigrant would do. I told my family that their
score would not be submitted to the ARRL (so there is nothing to disqualify) and
that if they were contacted by anyone about our efforts, they should simply say
that they "were just giving out points". Meanwhile, my log would go to the ARRL
and probably be a new record! Oh yeah -- along the way, I'd be sure to make
contact with a few other stations, just to make my operation look legit!
We operated from California because we figured that most everyone was so
consumed with having such a high profile new governor no one would notice what
we were doing until it was too late.
In wrap up, let me give the appearance of legitimacy by saying that "everybody
else does it" and "we won't be the last". Bummer that I thought of it and you
didn't.
73,
Dick
ps. Any similarity to real people or events is purely coincidental. No one
worthy of being called an Amateur Radio operator would actually do anything like
this in real life anyway.
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