ARRL 10 GHz and Up Contest
Call: W2RMA
Operator(s): W2RMA
Station: W2RMA
Class: 10G Only LP
QTH: WPA
Operating Time (hrs): 31
Summary:
Band Number of Calls Tot Dist(km)
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10G: 33 23248
24G:
47G:
75G:
123G:
134G:
241G:
Light:
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Total: 33 23248 Total Score = 26,548
Club:
Team:
Comments:
Super contest! Wonderful scenery with plenty of wildlife, great group of
cooperative hams to work/chew the fat with, weather that supported long distance
Q's, best score ever, and I enjoyed a free steak dinner that satisfied a debt!
Revamped/improved rig was a joy. Using a WG feed and a WG switch into a WG LNA
really helps ones hearing. If you don't yet have a LO with a stable & known
frequency, get one. Long Q's are much easier when you only have to manage one
variable, dish direction.
A contest hi-lite was working 734 KM to the K1OR/AA1I/N1DPM team at FN42wb Cape
Cod from FN00rg Blue Knob, central PA, along side K1RZ. For all 5 of us, it was
the longest 3cm Q ever. Nearly 40% of my Q's were 400km+. There is nothing like
a 6:30 am Q of 593km to get you started - better than coffee.
Both tropo and rain scatter helped. If you haven't worked RS, get with it!
Would you like to work 578km SSB at 5x7?
The second weekend, K1RZ was a master teacher of how to work a contest. The
W3SZ/K1RZ list was combed and scratched until the list gave up or we did,
whichever happened first. What was extremely useful was to have two cell phones
- one Verizon and one ATT technology. I have no connection to Consumer
Cellular, but found that their flexible plan met the need. Sometimes V worked
and sometimes ATT worked. Some of the best mountain sites (FN00rg, FM19aw,
etc.) can provide 4 bars and not connect via cell nor txt.
What a contest....why not one in the spring as well?
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