ARRL June VHF QSO Party
Call: NV4B/5
Operator(s): NV4B
Station: NV4B/5
Class: Single Op Port QRP
QTH: MS (EM54vs)
Operating Time (hrs): 6:08
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 54 39
2: 7 6
222:
432: 4 4
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 65 49 Total Score = 3,381
Club:
Comments:
I returned to Mississippi's highest point, Woodall Mountain (elevation: a
whopping 806 feet) for another SOQRP portable effort.
I operated from 1800-2200Z Saturday. Things were slow Saturday afternoon with
just a few local stations making it into the log. I returned Sunday at 1400Z
and found 6m open to Florida. There were several brief openings in various
directions Sunday, but none were all that spectacular. A number of QSOs were
boosted by what seemed like meteor scatter, but with less than 5 watts at my
disposal, it was difficult for me to take advantage of the brief enhancements.
After conditions took a dive mid-afternoon, I hung on to make a few 2m and 432
MHz QSOs before pulling the plug at 2215Z.
I was really pleased to actually make QSOs with the WA5VJB design
"Cheap" wood boom 6-element Yagi I built for 432. It's always fun
building something from scratch and making it work! It was good for four
grids, but I might have done even better had I not had a strangely-high noise
level on 432 only.
I regretted not having 222 ready in time for this year's contest, although some
of the local 222 ops I expected to hear did not seem to be on the air this
weekend anyway. Perhaps Father's Day resulted in slightly lower
participation.
Thanks to all those whom I worked for being patient with my QRP signal. A
number of QSOs were quite challenging, and of course, some were unfortunately
lost to QSB. It was still a lot of fun, though.
Radio: Yaesu FT-817ND
Antennas: 2 el 6m; 4 el 2m; 6 el 432
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