[RSM] VY1AAA and VE4EA BERU SO-Open12(A)

[Tom Haavisto]

Hi Gerry

The BERU contest is... strange.  You cannot work folks from your own area,
so no working VE4's from MB.  For me, no working VE3.  In England, they
cannot work other G stations!  That is where the HQ stations come in - they
are their own area, so can work everyone.

There are no mults, so scores are... low

Typically, there is a lot of rare stations on from Africa, and this tends
to drive U.S. stations crazy.  3B8, 9J2, C5, etc. calling CQ BERU and not
working U.S. stations...  Oh yaa.  They love that.
We are also (technically) limited to 750 watts out.

Wait for the results to come out, but I agree - I think you did well :-)


Tom - VE3CX












On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 5:05 PM Cary Rubenfeld <carys1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1st Ever BERU -- so not sure what a good score is.  Late Saturday, worked a
> VE7 from VY1AAA and he said "Huge score!" so that made me feel good.
>
> Plan was for Cary, VE4EA, to operate his station (and do perhaps some
> shared M/S time.)   Cary is currently in Palm Springs, CA.   Well, there
> was an explosion of a power line underground near the condo his renting...
> So he could not get on.  I don't know how many other VE4s were on.
> I'm not even sure what they will think of Remote from two stations with the
> same op.   I never worked VE4, and it was impossible to work each other as
> only one
> remote on my end.
>
> About 6.5 hours on each station.
>
> VE4EA:
>
>   Band     QSOs     Pts  Cty  Sec  Pt/Q
>      7      82    1210   38    5  14.8
>     14      81    1245   35    5  15.4
>     21       2      50    2    0  25.0
>  Total     165    2505   75   10  15.2
> Score: 2,505
> 1 Mult = 1.9 Q's
>
> VY1AAA:
>
>  Band     QSOs     Pts  Cty  Sec  Pt/Q
>    3.5       7     155    7    0  22.1
>      7      23     495   19    1  21.5
>     14     103    1595   48    6  15.5
>  Total     133    2245   74    7  16.9
> Score: 2,245
> 1 Mult = 1.6 Q's
>
> Conditions were really very decent.  Funny thing: Working Africa from VE4
> was difficult.  After struggling from VE4, went to do some VY1AAA, and they
> were S9+.
> 15 was very dry -- tried a few moves but no luck.
> Nice G run (~30 mins) on 40 from VE4 mid-afternoon.
> Tons of VK/ZL from VY1 -- on 40 and 20.  A few on 80.  Seemed endless on
> 20.
>
> I've never seen the K3 S-meter pin.   On Saturday afternoon, VE5MX did it
> to VY1.
>
> Thanks for the good ears when things were tough.
>
> I wish Canada Day had as much activity!!  Worked VO1 to VE7+VY0,(From Both
> stations, except no VE4 from either!)  Saw VE8 Spot, but nada there.
>
> 73, Gerry VE1RM_
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