[AK-VHF] VHFContest Results

[Edward R Cole]

I hope everyone had a good contest.

Working on Saturday ate most of the prime time for me.  Murphy was in 
grand style with local noise level of S8 that masked all but very 
strong signals and then my TR relay was not switching back to 
Rx.  Result was I switched to my KX3+xvtr+50w PA into my 9-dBd 
vertical.   Amazingly we heard KL3JI/R very well on the hillside on 
2m SSB using the vertical.  With only 15-minutes to work the contest 
on Saturday only two contacts were made on 2m.

I resumed working 2m at 9am on Sunday and KL7XJ came back to my first 
call.  We worked on 432.100 SSB and 223.50 FM for some more 
multipliers.  Receiving Dale was difficult on 432 since only the 222 
preamp worked (listening to 432 on a 222 yagi is not 
optimum).  223.50 was S9 easy contact on FM.  TR relay and local 
noise problem were not present on Sunday.

At noon (2100utc) I switched to 2m-eme and made five contacts in five 
grids over about 3-hours.  I was quite windy both days and I suspect 
my azimuth display is off about 15-degrees (which made tracking the 
moon harder).

9 contacts in 9 grids with score of 99.  I entered as single-op high 
power all-band.

73, Ed - KL7UW
In June I will ask time off from work and hopefully add 6m, 33cm and 23cm