[Fourlanders] EME contest second weekend summary

[Bob Lear]

This contest was the first time that we've been on three bands EME. I 
ended up with 29 Q's on 432, Brian NX9O had 2 Q's on 222 for his first 
222 EME contacts and Johnny K4SQC was on 2m and had 53 Q's there.  I'm 
up to 79 Q's total on 432 with 40 initials.  Already have gotten a 
couple of QSL cards too.

Again this time, we had NO equipment or software problems!!  Let's hope 
this trend keeps up.  We've had our share of problems in the past.  The 
antennas tracked well too, but we did see that we had to adjust for some 
offset before moonset.  Cumulative error we guess.

Only things different this weekend is that I upped my power from 500 
watts to about 650 out on 432.  Johnny changed his station over from the 
Flex 1500 to his Flex 6700 and was quite pleased.  He also used his own 
transverter where we had been using my 2m tranverter most recently.

We ate at 'Bellys and Butts BBQ' on Friday night.  Now we have three 
excellent BBQ joints in Dahlonega.  We went to Roosters on Saturday 
night.  I just had frozen biscuits for breakfast for us each morning.

I took naps both nights and felt much better each morning.  Just can't 
stay up all night anymore.  Brian and Johnny left Sunday after getting 
some sleep.  I think we all recovered pretty well and quicker this time.

73, Bob