[Fourlanders] W4ZST 2023 EME contest summary

[Bob Lear]

After much work, I finally managed to get the cabrillo log made up 
properly and submitted to ARRL for the contest.  After more work I got 
the adif files correct to get submit to lotw,   Maybe I can be more 
efficient at that in future.  Quite a few immediate confirms on lotw but 
of course I was a couple of weeks later in getting stuff in.  I also 
posted on 3830 scores as they have finally added the EME contest 
category.  Not so many using it yet though.   Much consternation on the 
moon reflector about the problems with log submission for the EME 
contest.  None of the logging programs have made a proper template for 
it and many gymnastics with original files, spreadsheets and ADIF Master 
were needed.  If only.......

I think we did pretty good this year even though I thought things 
weren't going well during the contest but it was mainly conditions. We 
did have some station problems the first contest weekend.  No problems 
at all the second weekend except for conditions and tired operators!
Here is the confirmation from ARRL:
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Analysis of your uploaded log:
           Contest: ARRL-EME
         Call Sign: W4ZST
  Other Calls Used: (none)
       Operator(s): K4VBM KI4US NX9O W4ZST WG8S WW8RR
Operator Category: Multi-Op
     Mode Category: ALL
     Band Category: ALL
All Eqpt Amateur Owned: Yes
E-mail:w4zst at windstream.net
       QSOs in Log: 103
         Raw Score: */707,000/*

Scoring Summary:
Band  CW/Ph  Dig   US States  VE Provs  DXCC Entities
    50
   144      0         53         17           1            16
   222      0         10         10           0             0
   432      0         34         12           0            10
   902
  1.2G      0          4          1           0             3

Total      0        101         40           1            29

Log received at: 2023-12-14 21:14:28 UTC
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Other multi-op scores and certificates we have gotten in the past:

2016    180k    5th place    (W4NH)
2020    135k    7th place
2021    320k    6th place
2022    117k    10th place

So this 707k may end up better I think, but probably still no higher 
than 5th because of the big guns that have microwave weekend scores added.
They are our W2SZ contest type nemesis for scoring.  Making more Q's on 
1296 and other bands in the future will help us also.

Thanks to all the guys for operating the contest here.   Brian, Bill, 
Ron, Kim and I the first weekend and Kim and Bob and I the second 
weekend.  We ate well in the Fourlanders tradition.  Brian had his 
portable 1296 EME setup here for the first weekend and made the 4 Q's on 
Sunday.  He was still plagued with problems with the new setup but 
finally got it working.  Our 10 Q's and 10 states on 222 for the contest 
were fantastic.  We worked almost everyone who was on 222 except for a 
couple of guys who were moonrise only and I didn't hear about them till 
later and one new 222 station that only had 100W.  But Marshall worked 
those three.  I tried with the new station but just not enough on his end.

73, Bob W4ZST
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