ARRL June VHF QSO Party
Call: N5RZ/R
Operator(s): KF5HHD N5RZ
Station: N5RZ/R
Class: Limited Rover LP
QTH: Texas
Operating Time (hrs): 21
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 153 62
2: 54 13
222: 9 6
432: 27 7
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 243 100 Total Score = 27,900
Club:
Comments:
Hadn't been roving since 2005, so planned this one in conjunction with a trip to
the HamCom convention in Dallas. Built a PVC rack to put on top of the Toyota
RAV4. Antennas: 11 el 144 yagi, 6 el 222 yagi, 14 el 432 yagi. Square
horizontal loops on 50, 144 & 432. FT857 + 222xvtr, and bricks on
144-222-432.
Left the convention about 2 hours before the contest started & made some final
tweaks before grabbing some grub & heading out to the starting spot in the NE
corner of EM12. Then on to EM 13, EM23, EM22, EM21 & part way thru EM11 before
getting some shuteye about 0330Z. Condx were rather poor with limited 6M
openings & no enhancement on the high bands. Lost the 222 xvtr in EM22. I
think I know what happened but no way to fix on the road. Bummer.
Back on the road at 1230Z with decent condx on 2 & 432, but only ground wave on
6M.
Our route took about 2 more hours to get thru EM11, and then we were in EM01
for 5+ hours with a couple of anticipated stops. We were hoping for good 6M
condx to put those two grids in lots of logs, but only spotty propagation there
made for a long trip home. 2M & 432 were quite useless most of the rest of the
trip. 6M started perking up in EM02 & DM92 with openings to several parts of
the country. The big culprit, though, was relentless power line noise. It
was especially bad along I-20, but plagued us constantly on the entire trip.
Probably aggravated by the very hot & dry WX (was 105-108 degrees most of the
afternoon). There is virtually no ignition noise which is encouraging since I
just acquired this vehicle.
The bands crapped out about the time we got to my home QTH at 0000Z. Unpacked
the vehicle & then drove it out to the end of the drive from 0100Z-0230Z for a
grand total of two 6M Qso's & one 2M QSO's from DM91.
Did get some DX -- VE3EJ T43S & C6ABB on 6M, XE2OR on 2M - tKS!
Was thinking about roving in the CQ VHF test in July, but will probably do that
one from home. I have a new M2 2 meter amp I'd like to try out. Need to get my
2M yagis up also.
Thanks to all for the QSO's and your patience. Congrats to all the big scorers
up north. Still loads of fun. Very tired today - glad I took Monday off!
QSO's by grid:
EM12=22 EM13=28 EM23=35 EM22=23
EM21=10 EM11=32 EM01=27 EM02=10
DM92=40 DM82=2 DM81=11 DM91=3
Score includes 12 multipliers for the 12 grids activated.
73, Gator & Deborah
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