[Fourlanders] Score Summary and Pictures

Tue Jul 6 09:28:17 EDT 2004

OOPS! My bad!

Well, almost equal to the record. I had done a bit of copy and paste to 
the results table and missed the score, Q's and Grid's fields of the 
June 2003 line. The score was 295,320 with 911 QSO's and 276 Grids. If 
you look at http://www.w4nh.org/Results/results.htm the June 2003 entry 
is changed. Following the link to the official results would have shown 
the correct score. The archived email from when I posted last June's 
score to the reflector is at 
http://dayton.akorn.net/pipermail/fourlanders/2003-June/000353.html

I am pleased with the result even though it is not a record. It is is 
little bit better than what I posted initially. The final submitted 
total is 272,525, 813, 275. These numbers have also been added to the 
results table.

My quick analysis/opinion is that conditions were a bit down for most of 
the bands. Six meters was good to average, but was neither hopping nor 
dead. The microwave activity helped us stay near the elusive 300K 
barrier. That is the next hurdle that we need to get over. In other 
words, I think we are good enough to submit a 300-400K+ score every 
June. If we could have moved the whole team up to FM07 or so we should 
have been able to break 400K. I am not saying we should go up that far 
northeast. I am not willing to drive that far.

The log has been acknowledged by the ARRL log submission robot and our 
call is listed in the logs submitted ARRL page. I posted the numbers to 
the North East Weak Signal Group's June scores page. See 
http://www.newsvhf.com/make-junscores.cgi   I have also posted all 
available logs to LotW and eQSL. I have a stack of about 20 or so QSL's 
to answer.

For the September contest - WE NEED TO MAKE SKED'S! Our numbers are 
still a bit low for where the group is on a technical and organizational 
basis. More about September in a future message...

Brian
NX9O

Jim Worsham wrote:

>Thanks to Brian for putting the log together again.  A couple of comments.
>I believe that this is a record score for the Fourlanders operating from
>Mile High Campground.  According to our website (w4nh.org or
>fourlanders.org) our previous record was in June 2000 (212,852).  If you
>subtract the microwave contacts from the log our limited multi score would
>have been 231,287.  Still a record.  The microwave contacts added
>approximatly 41K points to our score.  Not bad but it could have been
>better.  There were several 903 Qs we missed out on because they could hear
>us but we couldn't hear them.  Not sure if it was because of propagation,
>blockage or our TX on 903 is a lot better than our RX.  We once again missed
>out on making a 3456 Q.  There are only a couple of folks in the North GA,
>East TN, West NC area who have that band and we never hooked up with them.
>It looks like we are going to have to equip a rover with that band to ever
>get Q.  Are you interested Robin?  Good job to all who participated.  It is
>now time to start thinking about September but that will be the subject of
>another email.
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>73
>Jim W4KXY
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Brian McCarthy" <rfacres at akorn.net>
>To: <fourlanders at contesting.com>
>Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 9:27 AM
>Subject: [Fourlanders] Score Summary and Pictures
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>>Here is the preliminary summary for 2004 June:
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>>                 VALID    PTS PER     QSO       GRID SQUARE
>>                 QSOs        QSO       POINTS    MULTIPLIERS
>>50 MHz        483           1             483                163
>>144 MHz      186           1             186                  50
>>222 MHz        43           2               86                  23
>>432 MHz        69           2             138                  23
>>902 MHz        10           3               30                    6
>>1296 MHz      17           3               51                    7
>>2304 MHz        4           4               16                    3
>>TOTAL        812                          990
>>275                TOTAL SCORE  272250
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>>I do not expect much change from this to the final. Maybe one or two
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>>I have started posting photos onto the website at:
>>http://w4nh.org/pictures/  I have higher resolution versions available
>>if anyone is interested.
>>I have not rearranged things to link these to the main site yet. Maybe
>>later this coming week. On a personal note, new pictures of my children
>>are at http://rfacres.com/the-kids/  I had to get some new pictures of
>>the kids posted before I was "allowed" to update the club site.
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>>I still need to download the convoy pictures from my camera. They will
>>be posted.
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>>If anyone has additional photos to add to the site or the club library
>>files, please send them directly to my email. If you have any additions
>>or revisions to the text, please forward those to me also.
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>>That is all for now,
>>Brian
>>NX9O
>>secretary of this strange crew
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