[3830] ARRL June VHF N6RO Multi-Op HP

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                    ARRL June VHF Contest - 2022

Call: N6RO
Operator(s): N6RO W6DMW KK6XPT WD6T
Station: N6RO

Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 22
OpMode: SO2R
Remote Operation

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:  237   121
    2:   47    11
  222:    8     6
  432:   29    11
  903:           
  1.2:   15     6
  2.3:           
  3.4:           
  5.7:           
  10G:           
  24G:           
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Total:  336   155  Total Score = 62,465

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

First, thank you to N6RO for the hospitality.  Over the last two years he has
beefed up the VHF and above frequencies.  It went from the Elk antenna to the 21
element 2m antenna plus a 21 element 70cm then to the newest of the toys  the
1296 and 222 antennas.  Oh yes…. Everything has to have amps too.  “One
cannot have too many amps”.  I could go on with more details about the
hardware but the reality of it all is that the operators make the effort worth
while.

We started off with myself (W6DMW) and our host manning the radios.  Things
started slowly.  In the first hour activity was definitely down.  There were
several callsigns and locations that weren’t heard from.  That was the
beginning of the waiting.  Soon after the start KK6XPT joined us.  We had 5
bands rolling with full steam.  However in this contest from our West Coast
location, full steam isn’t what we had hoped.  WD6T jumped in  as he could on
6m and took the helm in the evening on Saturday and on Sunday (plus other
smatterings as he could).  Saturday evening N6RO manned the what I’ll call the
“BozoNet Parade” when they went through all the bands making sure all the
Bozo Members had gotten each other.  With all that effort, we shutdown for the
night around 10 our time.  We had 171 QSOs at that point.

The plan was for me to jump into the shack around 9 to try for EU on 6m.  I
remoted in around 7 and just waited for some FT8 activity.  At 8 things started
to wake up.  In the 8 o’clock hour, the magic band did it’s thing.  SSB
contacts, FT8 Contacts, CW contacts galore.  N6RO and WD6T jumped in as the
morning went on.  In the next several hours we got 100 more QSOs.  Most of
course on 6m and on all the other bands, the talk was how great 6m was.  Now,
this stuck with me… this is why I really like the VHF contests, the comradery
between all the local operators is unmatched.  We all perked up every time the
bands opened up.  

While we didn’t get more QSOs that last time, the 6m openings and the added
1296 and 222 ability gave us more mults and more opportunity for higher
individual points on the QSOs. We had fun and that’s what matters.

Our total stats were as follows:
 Band   Mode  QSOs     Pts  Grd  Pt/Q
    50  CW      11      11    5   1.0
    50  FM       1       1    0   1.0
    50  FT8    181     181  103   1.0
    50  USB     44      44   13   1.0
   144  FM       8       8    2   1.0
   144  FT8      4       4    0   1.0
   144  RTTY     2       2    0   1.0
   144  USB     33      33    9   1.0
   222  USB      8      16    6   2.0
   420  FM       2       4    0   2.0
   420  USB     27      54   11   2.0
  1240  USB     15      45    6   3.0
 Total  Both   336     403  155   1.2

Overall, fun contest because of the in shack conversations and learning.  I
think we all wish it wasn’t so much FT8.

I cannot thank the team (directly involved or not) enough for the participation
and the conversations on slack.

73!

Flex 6600M
Icom 9700
Elecraft K3 with Elecraft Transverter
Amps galore

Side fun: Ken got his Tornado tuner for 80m fixed by N6WM and NA6O during the
day on Saturday. 😊


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