Shouldn't there be a multiplier for no QSO grids to even up the scores?
Lynn Burlingame <n7cfo@n7cfo.com> wrote:
As for the award for " grids driven through, and no stations worked" we
should consider an annual PNW award.....
Lynn
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Subject: [PNWVHFS] Re: January Sweepstakes de KB7DQH/Rover (Unlimited,
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My driver told me as we left, that when we started poking around your 5.7
gig rig, that it did start working... maybe just something loose?
As far as stuff non-LOS, worked KB7W, going down the West side of Mt.
Hood, on 1296! While rolling along, antennas pointed with the vehicle.
I'm glad we made the effort to help out some of the more distant statios
though...
KC7QAG and K7OOS, for example out in CN83 and CN73, respectively...
along with N7CNH and K7MI... We probably gave them most of their QSO's
thru our efforts.
Here are the grids we actually made QSO's from: CN84, CN83, CN74, CN73,
CN72, and thanks to WA6KLK, CN71 and CN70.
Drove thru CN80,90,91,92, DN02... with NO activity. NOTHING heard. Calling
on 6, 2, 432... NOTHING... Seems everyone was asleep! Except US!
I drove the Bus from Redding to Alturas, CA... to give my driver a break...
and good thing, too, from Alturas to Bend, Or. we were on virgin
snow-covered roads the whole way.
Started working some stuff on 6 and 2 meters in DN03... and from CN93,
CN94, CN95, CN85, CN86, and CN87 it was a contest again!
So, not a whole lot of QSO's in the log, but a good number of them will
end up as multipliers, either for us or someone else!
It is interesting to note we heard KI7JA on a meteor burn in CN80... on
the Trinity Highway... If not familiar... this road is like driving on a
malaria germ, surrounded by mountains! Gets to over 4000 feet in a couple
spots. Best safe speed on this hundred-mile stretch of road is about 45
miles an hour, on the straights!
If this trip is attempted by anyone in the future, one needs to make sure
portable stations are up and running in the area, or one has digital modes
for meteor scatter!
We made a total of 195 QSO's on 6-3456 and 10 gigs... from 14 grid squares.
Other than the noise on two kicking in when 6 was running (possibly bad
relay in the 6 meter brick-- the preamp would occasionally not work
either)
no other notable indications of the presence of Murphy! At least nothing
that would sideline the operation of the station or vehicle anyway.
Hmmmm... any records of grids driven through, and no stations worked?-)
This operation would have been impossible without the efforts of my team
members KE7V, N3QQ, and Stephen Reynold, my driver. To all who helped or
worked us, thanks!
Eric
KB7DQH
> Hi, Gang:For me, this was the most successful Sweepstakes ever.
> 51 Q's
> 19 grids
> 1976 points.
> A special thanks to Eric, who patiently worked with me until we worked
> 2304, 3456 and 10,368. (My 5760 is apparently not putting out, but is
> receiving.) BTW: I am learning something about microwave. It does not
> take wide open spaces and a summer day to make contacts. Eric was two
> miles away, in Wal-Mart parking lot. I pointed out the back deck into
> Ponderosa pines, houses and falling snow, and worked him on 2 and 3 GHz.
> On 10 GHz, he was hidden by more trees, and not line of sight, but was
> still Q5. It was a great contest. I hope everyone did well. -Don,K7HSJ.
>
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> >
>
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