KE7NS/R June VHF Test

Thu Jun 15 01:34:59 EDT 1995

           1995  June VHF QSO Party!

Call Used  - KE7NS/R

Catagory - Rover

Grid - DN31

Band         Q's        Mults

  50            5             2
 144           8             5
 432           6             4

  Score  - 275

Grid - DN32

Band          Q's        Mults

  50             16         10
144              6           4
432              4           4

 Score - 540

Grid - DN42

Band           Q's         Mults

  50              43          23
144                6            4
432                2            2

 Score - 1537

Grid - DN41

Band            Q's         Mults

   50              56           34
 144               7              5
 432               3              3

 Score - 2898

Total  Rover Score - 5250

(Old Scoring System - 177,000)

 Missed the first Six Hours of the Contest.  Worked what I could from the Home 
QTH Saturday Evening.  No 6 meter E skip from there!  Decided to do what I had 
been threatening to do and go Rovering on Sunday!  Without question had a lot 
more enjoyable time!  It was great to finially have some E skip!  Tho even it
was 
strange!  Other Local Operations also suffered from lack of 6 meter E Skip. 
Tho  I am told the Tropo was prty good.  Only K7VNU in Colo was heard from the
east. 
 No Wyoming or Colo stations were worked that I know of .  Idaho , NV, AZ were 
all worked by various stations and I understand that Calif and NM were worked
by 
the group in DM39! Looking forward to the CQ VHF CONTEST next month and 
hope the Snow has finially melted from the Mtn Tops!

  73, Mark, KE7NS , DN41, ABCDE

mmoulding at delphi.com

>From ng0x at ix.netcom.com (David Curtis)  Thu Jun 15 06:36:02 1995
From: ng0x at ix.netcom.com (David Curtis) (David Curtis)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 22:36:02 -0700
Subject: VHF QSO Party: NG0X/r (+K2MM) 13,453
Message-ID: <199506150536.WAA28688 at ix2.ix.netcom.com>

June VHF QSO Party
NG0X/rover - ops: NG0X & K2MM

Claimed Score: 13,453

Grids: DM04 DM05 CM95 CM96 CM97 CM87

        QSO’s         Points           Mults
      A  B  D  E   A  B  D  E =tot  A  B  D  E =tot score
     -----------  ---------------- ---------------- ------ 
DM04 24 23  9  1  24 23 18  3 =68   9 10  5  1 =25  =>1700
DM05  6  3  3  0   6  3  6  0 =15   4  2  2  0 = 8  => 120
CM95 16 18  7  3  16 18 14  9 =57  12 13  5  1 =31  =>1767
CM96 52 35 20  4  52 35 40 12=139  34 12 10  4 =60  =>8340
CM97  1  0  0  0   1  0  0  0 = 1   1  0  0  0 = 1  =>   1
CM87 23 23  6  1  23 23 12  3 =61  11  8  5  1 =25  =>1525

                                             total: 13,453

                       (Rover classic:  341 x 150 = 51,150)

Equipment summary:
TS-690S  to sqloop
FT-736R  to:
   8 el yagi on 144
  10 el yagi on 432
  too many el yagi on 1.2G (10 foot boom, I lost count of elements)

Short form comments: Thanks to K2MM for making the trek.  Overall,
pretty happy with score.  Had fun. Minimal equipment damage. New rules
are strong motivation to stay put instead of rove. 

The saga:
Friday: Go to John’s house to align V/UHF rig.  Then we pin the AAA
map to the living room wall while we scribe grid lines onto it and
discuss strategic options. Topo maps consulted at length.  We make a
pact to set out at Oh-dark-hundred (despite evil looks from John) and
I return home to bolt antennas to the van roof.

Saturday very A.M.: We hit the road on schedule and head south.
Odometer: 23421.9

The contest: We stop the Eagles tape half-way through “Hotel California”
and take up our starting position on the top of Tejon pass just south of
the I-5 grapevine in DM04. Work DM04, and head north.  Did some back-
road explorations in CM95.  Need to improve my list of good CM95 sites.
We hit my favorite spot in CM96 at 11:30 P.M. local, work a few and
crash.  Next A.M.: CM96 very productive.  John works lots Es on 50.  2M 
antenna given a severe but non-fatal crunch by low limb of a Quercus
Agrifolia. Climb on the roof to bend the ant back into shape.  At least
the dead bugs were scraped off the front director. (Q. Agrifolia
sustains no visible damage).  Almost immediately thereafter work NC7K in
DM19 on 2M CW on the other side of a few mountain ranges. :-) Break for
bratwurst at noon and start down the hill.  Roll home and work the rest
of the contest from the hills above home. Bag it a few hours early.
Odometer: 24098.2 = 676.3 miles.

Comments: NC7K gang did a good job, we worked them from both CM95 and
CM96. KN5S in DM62 heard well and often out here.

73, Dave NG0X/r 

>From Matthew S. Trott" <0007288678 at mcimail.com  Thu Jun 15 15:09:00 1995
From: Matthew S. Trott" <0007288678 at mcimail.com (Matthew S. Trott)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 09:09 EST
Subject: VHF Test Results
Message-ID: <60950615140906/0007288678PJ2EM at MCIMAIL.COM>

You know it's just too dang nice in Montana in June to stay at the radio all
weekend, however, I would have anyway if the XYL hadn't had me uprooting and
planting 5 ponderosa pine trees all day Saturday (20 miles between uproot and
replant). Now I just ha 
ve to wait 30 years for those trees to grow tall so I can string wires
(pronounced wahrs) between them. 

AA7BG  six meter single op results (about 3 hrs. op time):

		Grids		Score

		39	26		1,014

Wish I coulda operated more condx were quite good on 6. 

Rig: Swan 250		Antenna: 4 L Hy-gain @ 30'

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A friend of mine WA7NWP had the following results (approx):

	Q's		Grids    Score

		81	51		4,131

Looks like I don't get one of those pretty pink/orange VHF AWARD certificates
this time around. But, there's nothing better than some competition. Just wait
til next year Bill. 

73, Matt --  AA7BG

aa7bg at mcimail.com
WA7NWP was SO 6m also, BTW.