August UHF Contest
Call: K2DRH
Operator(s): K2DRH
Station: K2DRH
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: EN41 IL
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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222: 42 25
432: 65 33
903: 25 15
1.2: 28 14
2.3: 16 10
3.4: 8 6
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 184 103 Total Score = 95,481
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
It’s been a crazy week so posting my score here a week after the contest seems
appropriate. There was much discussion of the new ARRL UHF contest at CSVHF and
the fact that the ARRL wants to run the new distance scoring UHF test on this
same weekend puts the sponsors of this contest with the old UHF rules without
ARRL sponsorship in a quandary. Many didn’t see a problem with running them
both in parallel, and for a fixed station this is true. But the strategy for a
rover to win is somewhat different in how they run around in the grids they
visit and how far apart they get. And since rovers are the true heart and soul
of either contest, they pretty much get to call the tune. My thoughts are why
not try it and see how it works out. I suppose time will tell.
Conditions on Saturday were pretty decent, not particularly enhanced but not
flat either. But this is the only time in recent memory that I found nobody
around to work at all for the first 12 minutes. Participation by a lot of the
regular fixed stations with one or two bands was down, probably not helped at
all by another iteration of the NAQP in parallel again. The rovers thankfully
were out in force mostly due to the terrific turnout from the efforts of NLRS
Rovermania.
Sunday conditions were pretty good as evidenced by some 400 mile plus contacts,
but the stations in between just weren’t there to work. There were fewer
rovers out Sunday too, some due to the distraction of a local Iowa hamfest.
Despite my best efforts to get it fixed 902 seemed intermittent and quirky,
sometimes working great, sometimes way down on receive so I still have work to
do to find the problem before September. But all in all it was a fun contest as
it always has been.
73 de Bob2 K2DRH
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