[3830] ARRL June VHF N1PRW Single Op Port QRP

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                    ARRL June VHF Contest

Call: N1PRW
Operator(s): N1PRW
Station: N1PRW

Class: Single Op Port QRP
QTH: EMA
Operating Time (hrs): 5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:  19     15
    2:   1      1
  222:           
  432:   1      1
  903:           
  1.2:           
  2.3:           
  3.4:           
  5.7:           
  10G:           
  24G:           
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Total:  21     17  Total Score = 374

Club: 

Comments:

Portable QRP operation on Sunday from Holt Hill in Andover, Mass. Elevation
420'.

Sunday weather: Mostly sunny and dry, 72F
Station Equipment:
- Yaesu FT-817ND @ 5 Watts
- 1/2 wavelength 6m aluminum dipole, homemade
- Elk 2M/440L5 portable log periodic antenna

Perfect weather for hiking and spending the day outside. Band enhancement Sunday
afternoon allowed for great DX. Equipment operated well and as designed. A
single 12V 9Ah sealed gel battery provided power all afternoon.

QSOs were almost exclusively DX on 6m with one local exception working
50/144/432.

6m enhancement allowed a personal VHF QRP DX best of 1,300 miles to South
Dakota. Most QSOs were with midwest and southeast stations. However, I wasn't
able to convert the excellent condx into a high score, the result of spending no
time on 144/432 to build up points. Multipliers are useless without UHF points
to jack up the score.

Time was the biggest enemy as I needed 5-20 mins per QSO to break through
pileups. I successfully got through 36% of pileups that I tried. Thanks for the
patience to work my weak signal. The QSOs were worth it.

I wondered if a better strategy for points would have been to sit on one freq to
call CQ and be found by stations who could actually hear me well. I might have
increased my QSO count, but I wouldn't have broken my personal distance record
that way.

Station photos here: http://shawsheen.com/2018/arrljunvhf/

73 Alexander N1PRW


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