This past weekend's contest coincided with the Packrat picnic, so didn't get
out to make a contact til a bit later in the day. I wanted to rove in 4
grids, but there were severe storms with lightning that passed through all
afternoon, and drowned out a lot of the activity for me. Had all the gear in
the rover working, parked myself in a new location in FN20jf in the parking
lot of a HomeDepot store..but quite far in a peripheral lot, attracting no
real visitors, as business was slow in the stormy weather on a late Sat PM.
The altitude was great, but that had already been discovered by the cell
tower guys, and QRN and intermod on 903 and 1296 was severe. I did manage to
make several QSOs from there, from 222 thru 5G, no-one had 10G gear running
to try in the reasonable area. Got some real buzzy sounding CW sigs between
myself and N3NGE on 3 & 5G as the energetic storms were passing thru. Got
home early, as it continued to rain. Sunday I thought about heading up to
Camelback in FN21hb, but with the heavy fog, decided to scale back, so just
did my usual run to FM29hx and made a pageful of QSOs, including running all
bands again with N3NGE, and 222 thru 3G with AA3GN, and caught him again
heding home from FN20. All in all, it was a light and easy activity--no real
long hauls, but happy all the equipment worked! 73, Rick
2001 ARRL August UHF Contest K1DS
ROVER ALL HIGH EPA Section
Operators: K1DS
Band QSOs QSO pts. Mults.
--------------------------------------------
222 22 66 8
432 23 69 8
903 7 42 3
1296 10 60 3
2304 6 72 2
3456 5 60 2
5760 2 24 1
Laser 4 48 1
--------------------------------------------
TOTALS 79 441 28 + 2 = 30
Claimed score = 13,230
_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
|