ARRL June VHF Contest - 2022
Call: K5TR
Operator(s): K5TR
Station: K5TR
Class: Single Op-Analog HP
QTH: EM00uf
Operating Time (hrs):
OpMode: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 1133 234
2: 126 40
222: 31 14
432: 57 23
903: 4 3
1.2: 5 3
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 1356 317 Total Score = 463,454
Club: Roadrunners Microwave Group
Comments:
Six meter conditions were pretty good this year. It has been many
years since we have had good Es in this contest - so it was nice to
get a break this year. I did not get any 2m Es this year but we did
have some good tropo out to about 600-700 miles and that made it
possible to work some of the small stations on a few bands. I was
also able to work into MS on 144 FM - and that was fun.
On Sunday I was called by F4ARU on 6m SSB and later while I was on CW
I worked a number of European stations. Most were fairly week. F4ARU
was nice and loud and MD0CCE was very strong and in fact I was
confused when he came back thinking he was getting covered up by a USA
station - but it was him - with a big signal.
The local rovers:
KA5D/R
W5TN/R
KD5IKG/R
Were out and as always great to work them on many bands.
They seemed to have done well - esp on 6 meters on Sunday
afternoon.
I had to use the backup, backup 6m amp - the Elecraft KPA-500 that
I use for my remote station setup. I hope by next time I can have
something closer to 1500 watts going.
I also had issues with the IF / relay setup for my 2304 and 10Ghz
systems. In the week before the contest I made some changes to the
transverters and amp setup for 902 and 1296. I got a bigger amp going
on 1296 and a bit better transverter setup going on both of these
bands - so that was cool. But I seem to have broken 2304/10ghz
transmit. During the tropo on Sunday morning WB5ZDP in Dallas was on
the pin loud on 10Ghz - but nothing I did seemed to get a transmit
signal going on 10 ghz. I have plans to get the 10 ghz station
upgraded - it is up on the tower - so I hope to get the work done on
that in the coming months before the 10 ghz contest in August.
As always it was great to work everyone - and hope to see you all on
the bands again next time.
Last year I made to digital contacts in this contest. I do not enjoy
digital / RTTY contests. I usually do not do any of these
contests. And for me the fact that the VHF contests have become more
and more digital contests makes me sad. I enjoy digging the weak
signals out of the noise with my ears. I love hearing distant signals
and decoding them with my ears and brain. So it was an easy choice
for me this year to enter the analog category. I would have been all
analog even if there was not a category.
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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6CW 133 130 130 32
6SSB 1042 1003 1003 202
2SSB 129 126 126 40
222SSB 33 31 62 14
432CW 2 2 4 2
432SSB 56 55 110 21
902SSB 4 4 12 3
1GHSSB 5 5 15 3
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Totals 1404 1356 1462 317
Final Score = 463454 points.
The station:
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/blanco/k5tr_station.html
50Mhz - Elecraft K3 - Elecraft KPA-500 (500 watts)
7 element yagi at 75'
7 element yagi at 30'
7 element yagi at 25' fixed Northeast
7 element yagi at 30' fixed Northwest
144Mhz - Elecraft K3 - Elecraft XV144 - W6PO 8877 (1000 watts)
17B2 17 element yagi at 35'
Hustler G7 at 60' and 80 watts for the FM contacts
222Mhz - Elecraft K3 - Elecraft XV222 - Larcan amp (1000 watts)
Cushcraft 15 ele yagi at 30'
432Mhz - Elecraft K3 - Elecraft XV432 - W6PQL amp (1000 watts)
2 high stack M2 432-9WL 28 element yagis at about 40'
902Mhz - Elecraft K3 - DEMI transverter - 50 watt amp
- 16 element loop yagi at 30'
1296Mhz - Elecraft K3 - DEMI transverter - 150 watt amp
24 element loop yagi at 30'
( 144, 222, 432, 902 and 1296 are all using the same K3)
HOUR 50 144 222 432 902 1.2 TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
18 24 23 7 9 0 0 63 63
19 2 8 4 8 0 1 23 86
20 2 1 2 3 1 1 10 96
21 3 4 0 3 0 1 11 107
22 3 3 1 1 0 0 8 115
23 4 2 0 1 1 1 9 124
0 34 0 0 0 0 0 34 158
1 104 1 1 0 0 0 106 264
2 26 4 3 6 0 0 39 303
3 21 3 2 1 1 0 28 331
4 3 5 0 1 0 0 9 340
5 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 343
6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 343
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 343
8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 343
9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 343
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 343
11 4 12 2 8 0 1 27 370
12 6 38 1 4 0 0 49 419
13 26 8 3 1 0 0 38 457
14 29 2 0 3 0 0 34 491
15 53 6 4 4 1 0 68 559
16 108 1 1 1 0 0 111 670
17 101 0 0 0 0 0 101 771
18 57 0 0 0 0 0 57 828
19 16 0 0 0 0 0 16 844
20 58 0 0 0 0 0 58 902
21 84 0 0 0 0 0 84 986
22 103 0 0 0 0 0 103 1089
23 91 0 0 0 0 0 91 1180
0 79 0 0 0 0 0 79 1259
1 46 1 0 1 0 0 48 1307
2 46 2 0 1 0 0 49 1356
TOTAL 1133 126 31 57 4 5
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