[3830] ARRL Sep VHF AJ6T SO 3Band LP

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                    ARRL September VHF Contest

Call: AJ6T
Operator(s): AJ6T
Station: AJ6T

Class: SO 3Band LP
QTH: EM64pr AL
Operating Time (hrs): 10:00
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:  16      9
    2:   6      2
  222:           
  432:   7      4
  903:           
  1.2:           
  2.3:           
  3.4:           
  5.7:           
  10G:           
  24G:           
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Total:  29     15  Total Score = 540

Club: Alabama Contest Group

Comments:

Plans for station upgrades for this contest fizzled.  The boom-to-mast clamp for
a 3-element 6 meter Yagi went missing, so I had to run with a single omni loop
instead. The new M2 21-element 432 Yagi arrived with no elements in the box, so
a small Arrow Yagi was used on that band.  At the start of the contest I was
still mounting antennas on a push-up mast.  When I finally got active I made a
few local 2 meter QSOs on a 4-element Yagi before discovering that the SWR
through the mast-mounted preamp was sky high, so that was the end of operation
on 2 meters.  I did enjoy making FT8 and MSK144 WSJT-X contacts on 6 meters on
one radio while searching for new grids on 432 on another rig. My most
satisfying QSO was a 432 SSB contact with W4NH at over 200 miles in EM85 North
Carolina.  Integration of WSJT-X with N1MM+ worked well with WSJT-X controlling
the rig (FT857D) and sending QSO information to N1MM+ automatically via UDP, and
N1MM+ configured for no rig.  The only problem there was that I had to be
careful to properly select the band when logging manually to N1MM+.  In the end
I decided to call this contest a learning experience combined with a chase for
new 432 grids toward VUCC on that band from my new QTH in EM64.
73 de Walt, AJ6T


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