ARRL January VHF Contest - 2023
Call: KK6MC/R
Operator(s): KK6MC
Station: KK6MC/R
Class: Rover LP
QTH: Rover
Operating Time (hrs): 19
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 104 9
2: 72 8
222:
432: 61 6
903:
1.2: 53 6
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 283 29 Total Score = 17,583
Club:
Comments:
I did my usual sunbelt trip to Arizona for the January contest. I decided to try
a new route this year, starting east of Phoenix in DM41, DM51 and DM52, instead
of north as in years past. It was not much different than starting from the
north, that is, not much in the way of casual ops on from the Phoenix/Tucson
area and most of the activity concentrated on FT8 with only 3 analog QSOs the
whole day. A highlight was an MSK QSO with W9RM in DM58.
Sunday was a different story as I spent my day at the Maricopa convergence,
DM42, DM32, DM33, and DM44. WA7JTM had told me that my fifth grid location, the
Sunset Point Rest area on I-17 was closed, so I didn't make the trip up there.
There were lots of different fixed stations to work and 3 other rovers, so there
was a lot of activity. I worked both analog modes and digital modes from here.
The overall split for the contest was about 20% DG and 80% analog. I worked no
CW stations, despite trying. I made a number of 2M DG QSOs and a couple of 432
DG QSOs, so it is nice to see the DG activity migrating up the bands. several of
the 2M DG QSOs were the result of calling CQ to what appeared to be a dead band.
I observed no enhanced propagation during the contest, other than some very
transient Es openings on FT8 that were not capable of supporting a full QSO.
Meteor pings were obvious on FT8 Saturday and occasionally on Sunday.
Murphy visited and took out my PTT line while he as at it, so I couldn't key my
transporters on 222 and 902. I missed a lot of QSO points that way.
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