[3830] ARRL June VHF K9YC Single Op HP

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                    ARRL June VHF QSO Party

Call: K9YC
Operator(s): K9YC
Station: K9YC

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 18

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:  87     47
    2:           
  222:           
  432:           
  903:           
  1.2:           
  2.3:           
  3.4:           
  5.7:           
  10G:           
  24G:           
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Total:  87     47  Total Score = 4,089

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

This was a single band effort -- I'm on the wrong side of the ridge to 
have any fun on 2M and above. :)   Put in a lot of hours, but N1MM 
screwed up the calculation.  I'd guess at least 18 hours.

Worked 21 states plus AB, including HI, MD, SC, GA. Picked up 13 new 
grids, bringing my total to 172 worked since moving to CA.

Ran 550W, using the new Elecraft amp, which works like a dream.  Antenna 
is a 4-el Yagi at 100 ft (which sounds high, except that it's 150 ft 
below the top of the ridge to the east. :)

Activity was only fair -- VERY few rovers, very few grid expeditions -- 
and conditions were only fair. I'm in CM87, but I never even HEARD 
anyone in CM88 or CM89, and there are some very accessible peaks in 
CM88.  Likewise, a couple of big stations showed up Friday night from 
DM05 and I worked them, but neither were heard at all during the 
contest. I heard a rover from DM13 for about five minutes late Sunday, 
but he dropped into a hole after W6YX worked him, leaving N6TU and me 
both empty handed. There are supposed to be TWO grid expeditions in 
CM93, but I have yet to hear either, and I saw no evidence that the big 
one was even on the air for the contest.

The east coast and midwest had good prop for a lot more time that we 
did, and to a lot more regions. And even when there was prop, it wasn't 
great  -- although I worked a dozen or so stations east of the MS river, 
they weren't very strong, and you had to be there at exactly the right 
time to work them. CW activity seemed promising at the start, but fell 
off quickly after the first dozen or so hours.

73, Jim K9YC


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