[VHFcontesting] cherry picking

[kb7dqh at donobi.net]

Hmmmm.... 40 minutes for a 2304 QSO?  I suppose if you gotta dig the gear
out of the trunk, set it up, warm it up, find frequency, figure out where
the other guy is and get the antenna pointed... Yeah, that makes sense.

Even with the gear running it can take that long to find "non-tradional"
paths to stations which may be anything but line-of-sight.

Last September, no opening on 6.  Actually concentrated on the microwaves
for that one, activated 6 grid squares, and with me/myself/I as the
operating "team" was all stop/shoot, drive to the next stop, etc.

STILL beat my all-time QSO count, and likely outscored my last best effort
by several thousand points.  AND handed out at least one, maybe two,
VUCC's to other hams on 3456 and 5760!

And, I almost didn't rove that one because of the cost of fuel.  With a
really good band opening on 6, or even 2 meters and above... things can
get interesting, otherwise, your microwave gear will put you in a position
to get something in the log when things just stink on the low bands.

My singleop rover efforts have nearly been double the points with the same
or similar QSO counts, once I added the FGHI bands to my arsenal,
regardless of what happens on 6...

Adding more operators to the rover station would facilitate keeping
someone busy on 6 during band openings, and the rest of the gang can try
to squeeze QSO's out of the higher bands, assuming the "rest of the world"
is paying attention to something besides all the DX on 6...

Hopefully there will be other multiop rovers out there who could work the
high ones when things get hopping on 6...

Eric
KB7DQH

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