[VHFcontesting] KF6LT W6QB Rover Multi Op Results

[David Schumacher]

Good Morning All,
   
  Well, the party didn't start off with gang busters for us, probably somewhat due to our route.  We traveled through mostly densly wooded area for about half the day Sat. till we broke into the open flat areas of Hwy. 99 in Northern Ca.  We made a few contacts here and there, but there didn't seem to be the traffic we expected.  Again, I think we were just shadowed being in the wrong place at the right time.  Sat. afternoon opened up some and we made more contacts but still not stellar. We were praying to finish the day with 40 contacts and over 1000 points, but didn't quite do it, with only 38 for Sat.  I did get to watch the Rampage Jackson fight Sat. night at the Colusa Casino, good fight but too bad Henderson couldn't have won.  
   
  We thought Sunday would be a bust, with even less traffic but to our suprise our route Sunday placed us in proximity to work Bay Area and Sacramento Valley stations so we more than doubled our score.  
   
  All in all, it was a great venture for us, (except when that fool almost changed lanes into the front of my truck on Hwy. 80 outside of Sacramento on Sunday) my brother Mike, W6QB and myself had a great time with the contest, which was exactly what we set out to do.  We have contested as a team before, in HF contests, and had always done very well, but it has been some years ago.  It was great to get back together again, get back into the environment, and to just share some ham radio fun.  The up side is that we are already in the talking stages of what we want to do for the January VHF contest.  Maybe a little bigger, a little more serious, but always just for fun.
   
  Special thanks go out to the stations who "followed us" and looked for us in our new grids to keep things active, W6VNQ, W6DWI and K6ALE thanks guys for being there to keep us interested hi.  
   
  A couple of observaitons:
  Stations seemed to want to switch bands really fast without working the stations calling them before moving.............probably heard at least a dozen missed opportunities between Sat. and Sun.
  Also, land based stations, please remember your rovers are not all stationary.  Some of us are in traffic talking, logging and driving all at the same time.  Zero beat us, don't call us off frequency expecting us to zero beat you..........it just isn't that easy.
  Here's the puddin as they say:
   
  We ran a single M2 loop on 144 and 432, a KB6KQ loop on 50 and a Hustler SF-220 verticle for 222 fm.  
   
  144                  33
  222                  14
  432                  14
  50                    28
  Total Qso's       89
   
  6 Grids Activated
  6 Unique Multiplyer's
   
  89 x 6 x 6 = 3204 pts.


Dave