Dad and I went out for our first VHF contest in the new rover. Gave it a
good workout and had alot fun. Band conditions were flat and 6 was
nonexistant. Only had one MAJOR murphy and that was when the 6 meter
moxon got friendly with a tree on the way up to our second site at fm19aw.
Pretty much imploded. Fortunately we had a 6 meter square loop on the RV
already and it worked out pretty well the rest of the weekend. We
operated from FN10, FM19, FN00, FM09, FM08, FM07, FM17 and ended up in
FM18. Not bad for our first major push with the new rover. Not as good
as the previous September but then again last September we had a giant
opening on 6, tropo and aurora.
Here's our score:
2006 ARRL September VHF QSO Party K3LFO/R
ROVER MDC Section
Band QSOs QSO pts. Mults.
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50 90 90 17
144 86 86 16
222 62 124 15
432 72 144 16
903 24 72 8
1296 24 72 7
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TOTALS 358 588 79 + 8 = 87
Claimed score = 51,156
See ya on during the sprints and catch you in January.
73's
K3LFO/R team
Jim - K3LFO
Dave - W3DIO
ps. A picture of our rover can be seen on our website at www.k3lfo.org or
doing a qrz lookup on k3lfo. Our website is a little (alot) out of date
but we hope to have some more details updated soon about the new rover.
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