2005 ARRL September VHF Contest
10/19/2005 |
W3SO
Oops - forgot to do the Soapbox page on the web. Sorry.
CLAIMED-SCORE: 550228 ARRL-SECTION: WPA (FN00)
CATEGORY: MULTI-LIMITED
OPERATORS: W3BTX,WR3Z,K4VV,ND3A,W3TEF,W3SF,W3YOZ,KB3LGS
SOAPBOX: Murphy stuck in that the 222MHz computer would not boot so we resorted to logging 222 on an off-line computer. We probably missed making QSOs on all four bands with many stations since the
222 operator watches the network for the stations needed, and on which band. On the plus side, after CQ WW VHF Contest Marty, W3YOZ, and the Altoona, PA team members upgraded the 2m antenna to a stacked, rotatable,15 el 2m beams and a rotatable 2m 17 el 2m beam. We heard better and got good reports in the A-B comparisons before the contest. The station details are at .
The AU on 6m and 2m started about 2AM ET Saturday night and lasted until sunrise, then we had tropo and Es. Exciting Saturday night and Sunday. This time we had at least one QSO in each hour, and that was with only eight operators this time. All QSOs were either CW, SSB, or FM. We worked 30 different rover stations for 174 QSOs, about 12% of our QSOs. Thank you rovers!
This was our best score ever, beating our June 2004 score by 145K.
CU in the Fall Sprints and again in the January VHF contest.
For the Wopsononock Mountaintop Operators,
Ed -- K3IXD
CLAIMED-SCORE: 550228 ARRL-SECTION: WPA (FN00)
CATEGORY: MULTI-LIMITED
OPERATORS: W3BTX,WR3Z,K4VV,ND3A,W3TEF,W3SF,W3YOZ,KB3LGS
SOAPBOX: Murphy stuck in that the 222MHz computer would not boot so we resorted to logging 222 on an off-line computer. We probably missed making QSOs on all four bands with many stations since the
222 operator watches the network for the stations needed, and on which band. On the plus side, after CQ WW VHF Contest Marty, W3YOZ, and the Altoona, PA team members upgraded the 2m antenna to a stacked, rotatable,15 el 2m beams and a rotatable 2m 17 el 2m beam. We heard better and got good reports in the A-B comparisons before the contest. The station details are at .
The AU on 6m and 2m started about 2AM ET Saturday night and lasted until sunrise, then we had tropo and Es. Exciting Saturday night and Sunday. This time we had at least one QSO in each hour, and that was with only eight operators this time. All QSOs were either CW, SSB, or FM. We worked 30 different rover stations for 174 QSOs, about 12% of our QSOs. Thank you rovers!
This was our best score ever, beating our June 2004 score by 145K.
CU in the Fall Sprints and again in the January VHF contest.
For the Wopsononock Mountaintop Operators,
Ed -- K3IXD
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