[3830] CQWW VHF K9JK/R Rover LP

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                    CQ Worldwide VHF Contest

Call: K9JK/R
Operator(s): K9JK
Station: K9JK/R

Class: Rover LP
QTH: IL,MO&IA-11 Grids
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:  101    75
    2:   65    47
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Total:  166   122  Total Score = 28,182

Club: Mt Frank Contesters

Comments:

Similar to last year's CQ WW VHF, 2012 had one day as the 50 MHz 
contest and the other day as the VHF contest. This year the 50 MHz 
contest was on Saturday and Sunday was the VHF contest (reversed 
from 2011).

My 2012 rove covered 11 different Grids in West Central Illinois, 
East Central/Northeastern Missouri and Southeastern Iowa.

While 50 MHz was similar, it was also different - my 50 MHz contacts 
on Sunday in 2011 were largely into New England and the Mid-Atlantic 
but Saturday of 2012 produced only TWO contacts into New England 
(Massachusetts, & New Hampshire); other than that, my 50 MHz grid 
map for Saturday 2012 was blank from EM61 to the north and east. 
Contacts to Colorado and Florida were plentiful, 18 and 11, 
respectively (some repeated as I worked the same station after 
moving to a different grid). Thanks to K6MYC for his 'heavy lifting' 
to copy my rover signal from Illinois in California, the one double 
hop (over 1600 miles) QSO I was able to complete. Other contacts 
via E-skip on Saturday were to the states of Georgia, Louisiana, 
Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah and a station 
in Mexico. North and South Carolina were added during a brief 
opening on Sunday morning.

My first two grid stops on Saturday (EN50ga/fa and EM59fx&mobile) 
were the most productive - 30 Qs on 6 (mostly E-skip and a few 
tropo) plus 5 on 144 (all tropo) from EN50 and 25 Qs on 6 (mostly 
E-skip and a few tropo) plus 9 on 144 (all tropo) from EM59. 
EM58ax/bu/bt yielded 8 E-skip Qs on 6 (none on 2) and I found one 
last E-skip Q on 6 from EM48mt followed by 1 each on 6 and 2 
local/tropo from EM48wa before stopping for the night.

Early Sunday morning yielded a decent run of local/tropo contacts, 
20 on 6 and 37 on 2, as I moved among EM38xx (6 on 6, 9 on 2), 
EM39xa (3 on 6, 7 on 2), EM48aw (4 on 6, 9 on 2) and 
EM49aa (7 on 6, 12 on 2) since I was near that grid corner.

Departing that grid corner, I caught my only three E-skip 
contacts of Sunday, 2 from EM48bx and 1 from EM49ba.

As I continued north, all remaining Qs were local/tropo. I 
caught K9NS on 2 from EM49 while mobile and K2DRH on 6 and 2 
from EM39. With conditions having gone flat, it  was really 
helpful that K2DRH, K9AKS and K9NS followed me mobile through 
EN30 and found me during brief stops at EN40aq, EN31xc and, 
with 20 minutes to go in the contest, EN41ad.

The CoROVERolla's odometer clicked off 942 miles door-to-door which 
works out to just under 6 miles driven for each of my 166 QSOs.

Of the 74 multipliers worked on 6, 40 of them were unique. Of the 
47 multipliers worked on 2, 14 of those were unique.

Thanks to all who were on and to CQ Magazine for their continued 
sponsorship of this contest.

73, JK


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