[VHFcontesting] K4GUN/R results

[K4GUN at comcast.net]

I've now had a chance to look over the log and figure out what happened.  I am very pleased with the results.  My fiance' K4LIG was my logger and she did a great job of keeping up.  She kept up through a few nice pile-ups and was able to handle all the band switching quite well.  She even took the mic on the omni antennas while I took down the beams before moving.  I could not be happier with my partner.

I did have an equipment problem.  It seems my TX was not functioning in a consistent manner on 222.  It worked enough to make me believe it was fine but I was finally convienced by late Sunday afternoon.  I am sure I missed 5 or 6 QSOs as a result.  I ended up attaching my 8' boom yagi to my Yaesu VX6R hand talkie.  I made 3 contacts like this on Sunday night and picked up mults in each.  It was amazing just how well that worked.  Its almost enough to make me wonder if others could make this work and increase all our scores.

One interesting note is my last QSO.  In June, my last three in the log were from W3SO, from FM18.  In September, my last three were also with W3SO, from the exact same parking lot near my QTH.  That wasn't planned, but it just worked out nicely that way.

Anyway, here are the scores.  Considering there was no tropo nor e-skip, I'm pretty happy for a limited rover.

RoverLog QSOs by Activated Grid:
Grid QSOs Grid QSOs Grid QSOs
FM18 34 FM09 13 FM19 30
FN10 33 FM07 17 FN20 5
FN11 2 FM17 11 FM08 70
FN21 58 
RoverLog Score Summary, Using new rover rules:
Band QSOs Value QSOPts Mults
50 112 1 112 18
144 100 1 100 21
222 21 2 42 11
432 40 2 80 12

Grids activated:   10
Totals: 273  334 72 
Claimed Score: 24048