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[VHFcontesting] K8MR/R September VHF QSO Party

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Subject: [VHFcontesting] K8MR/R September VHF QSO Party
From: Jimk8mr@aol.com
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:52:17 EDT
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 ARRL September VHF QSO Party

Call: K8MR/R
Operator(s): K8MR,  W1NN
Station: K8MR/R

Class: Rover LP
QTH: 8 grids
Operating Time  (hrs): 

Summary:
Band  QSOs   Mults
-------------------
6:  120     23
2:  140    35
222:    13    10
432:   15    12
903:           
1.2:       
2.3:            
3.4:           
5.7:   
10G:         
24G:            
-------------------
Total:  288    80  Total Score =  25,280

Club: Mad River Radio Club

Comments:

This was my  second rover attempt, and for W1NN his first real VHF contest. 
We're
making  progress, but still have a long way to go.

We hoped to do 3 stops on  Saturday, but that was too optimistic. We arrived 
at
our first stop, at the  aptly named "town" of High Hill, OH in EM99, 30 
seconds
before the contest  started. In a way were lucky to get there at all, as we 
drove
past several  "road closed - high water" signs on the way.  We saw high water 
 and
dried mud on the road, but the earlier flooding had receded and we had no  
water
to drive through.

The site was a fine one, conditions were  great, but we weren't organized in
time, especially for 222 and 432. With the  good signals from the east coast 
at
the start on 2, we should have been able  to work them on the higher bands 
had we
been ready.

We stayed at High  Hill for several hours, but since Hal wanted to be back in 
the
Cleveland area  for the CW Sprint at 0000z, we didn't have time for our 
planned
stops in EM89  or EN80.  After dropping Hal at AC8E for the sprint I headed 
west
for a  quick visit to EN81 and then home.

Sunday morning we headed out to the  Butler, PA, Hamfest. We did set up at the
edge of the flea market, made some  qsos and talked to some visitors, but had 
no
qsos with the hamfest  visitors.  We then headed north through FN01, setting 
up
near Union  City, PA, in northwest FN01. From there we headed home, mobile 
only,
through  FN02, EN92, and EN91. 

Sunday morning I had a couple of the most  remarkable qsos of my amateur care
er:
while driving on I-80 a couple miles  west of the OH/PA line, I worked K1WHS 
in
FN43 on 2M cw, with just an IC-746  and a PAR Omni Loop. To prove it not a 
fluke,
10 minutes later from PA but  still in EN91, I worked WB1GQR in FN33. These 
made
us almost forget the two  mobile qsos with W1QK in FN31 and too many to keep
track of with  W2SZ/1.

We did miss several of the usual multiop beacons, like W3KWH,  K8CC, and K8GP.

More work before the next one: to better tune the WA5VJB  yagis, to get 1296
working, and to be able to work 222 and 432 while  moving.


73 -  Jim    K8MR

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