[VHFcontesting] K6BRW/R January VHF Sweepstakes

[Patrick May]

Results for 2012 ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes for K6BRW/R

Class: Limited Rover

RoverLog QSOs by Activated Grid:
Grid	QSOs	Grid	QSOs	Grid	QSOs
CM97	11	DM07	24	CM95	9
DM05	16	CM96	12	DM06	37

RoverLog Score Summary, Using new rules:
Band	QSOs	Value	QSOPts	Mults
50	22	1	22	6
144	51	1	51	7
222	14	2	28	2
432	22	2	44	3

Grids activated: 		6

Totals:	109		145	24	

Claimed Score: 3480


Comments:

This was my first January contest but I knew it would be much slower
than previous contests (2x June (worked the club station at fixed
sites), last September as a Limited Rover.)

With a week to go everything was looking great. The possible horrible
(read dry) winter we've had was going to be a good thing. All of that
changed starting on Friday. A big storm blew into Central California.
I started up at about 4200' (or so) in DM07 south of Shaver Lake. They
had some snow the night before but it didn't look to bad. It was slow
going at the beginning and around 20:00 UTC the snow started getting
heavy, the 6M HO Loop was detuned from snow so I bailed off the hill.
I had planned to move to another DM07 hill that had a better view to
the west and north. Fortunately that was it for bad weather.

I made my way down to the Madera (CM96/CM97/DM06/DM07) convergence and
worked the afternoon there and headed home for the day. About 0430 UTC
I jumped back in the truck to see what I can pick up (a decent group
has been getting together locally the last few months on 144.200
around 20:30 local (from DM06). I picked up a few over the next couple
of hours.

Sunday afternoon I made my way out to Kettleman CIty
(CM95/CM96/DM05/DM06). Unfortunately, I missed most of an opening to
Colorado. It was still pretty quiet most of the afternoon but still
managed a few new grids so that really helped out the score.

Can't wait for June!

Patrick May
K6BRW