[AK-VHF] Club Pride

[Edward R Cole]

Very interesting write up on this year's January VHF Contest.

I noted in the club standings the bottom 17 clubs ran 3 to 6 log 
entries!  As a club we can certainly challenge that if more would 
enter their logs.  We ranked ahead of three other clubs this 
time.  Three entries is the minimum to be recognized as a club.

Individual scores are recognized by ARRL Section so not hard to win a 
certificate for 1st place in the AK Section.  I've done it several 
times (mostly because I submitted a log).  There are several classes 
in the ARRL VHF Contests and you can win the FM-only Award!  Rovers 
get awards!  High power and low power awards.

Maybe you do the contests just for the "FUN" of enjoying the extra 
activity!  I think that motivates most of us "Up here"!  If you run 
FT8 in contest mode your log will automatically be saved and entered 
to a Cabrillo form.  I do mainly paper logging so just transcribe 
that to the Cabrillo form using the link on the contest page of the 
AK VHF-UP Group website.

I believe many popular ham log programs will transfer to making a 
Cabrillo log.  But you can just download the paper log forms and use 
a pencil/pen.

Hoping the June stats for AK show more activity.  This fall I am 
likely to go roving to Diamond Ridge above Homer to operated many 
bands (maybe even 10-GHz if a partner can be found in Anchorage.

Thanks to all who "came out" for the contest!  And don't forget the 
9:30 am Saturday 2m Net.

73, Ed - KL7UW
President AK VHF-Up Group

At 07:21 AM 7/8/2020, Brandon Clark wrote:
>Hello Group,
>
>Some of you may have seen this morning that the ARRL letter made 
>mention of a better write-up for the 2020 January VHF contest. The 
>link is: 
>https://contests.arrl.org/ContestResults/2020/Jan-VHF-2020-FinalFullResults.pdf
>
>I did a quick ctrl-F for "KL7" and wouldn't you know it, we showed 
>up. Our scores don't compare to those from rover stations in the 
>lower 48 where there are millions more people, but we still did 
>really well. Not bad for a bunch of Alaskans running around in the snow!
>
>January was a club best for contacts at that time, but in June we 
>had a bunch more contacts than in January. I'm interested to see how 
>we did in that event.
>
>73,
>
>Brandon
>
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73, Ed - KL7UW
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