[AK-VHF] Rover Run Complete

[Ken K]

 Sat morning, I started in BP46, about 25 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Activated 6 grids on Saturday, then a severe wx lightning forecast for my route Sunday led me to stay around Fbks and work some more locals.

Paul, there WAS an opening to the PNW, for about 10 minutes at the start of the contest. VE7DX, Perry and I spotted each other on ft-8, but couldn't close with RR. He did work into BP64 successfully, but I was about 120 miles north of there. I spotted another VE7 and even K5CM, but it was all over by 1815. Crazy band.

Ed, we'll make that long path yet. And I still have the 3 pathfinder certificates hanging in the shack (Shannon KL3JI has them as well) Looking back, my best roving score was the Jan 2010 contest, when I ran from Homer-Fairbanks for the first time. 1,764 points was good enough to win the Northwestern Division and West Coast Region in Limited Rover, thanks to lots of help from lots of folks, and bad winter wx in the PNW and west coast that weekend. I got lucky. Good fun!

73,
Ken NL7B     On Monday, June 15, 2020, 11:14:48 AM AKDT, Edward R Cole <kl7uw at acsalaska.net> wrote:  
 
 Agreed!  Both Brandon-KL7BSC signing KL7VHF/R and Ken - NL7B/R made 
this VHF Contest very enjoyable.

I worked 22 QSO's on 50/144/222/432 in five grids.  What was 
surprising was to work a couple stations north of me with my 6m yagi 
fixed pointed SE.  The rovers activated the grids (two of which 
normally have no activity.  I think Brandon qualifies for the 
Pathfinder Award 
<https://www.qsl.net/a/ak-vhf//Awards/>https://www.qsl.net/a/ak-vhf//Awards/ 
from the AK VHF Group.  Ken was our first Pathfinder in 2011 using NL7HJ.

Other long-shot was that NL7B received my weak signal on 144 SSB over 
a path of approx 350-miles passing thru the Alaska Rang to Murphy 
Dome NW of Fairbanks (dog-leg shot).  Ken was using a 4-element yagi 
for receiving; I ran 140w into my four 10-element eme array Pointed 
az=021 Which crosses over 4,000 foot Mt. Susitna about 70-miles north 
of me.  Pretty sure if a couple yagis (10 or 12 element were used we 
could have had a 2-way contact).

Haven't worked up my score, as yet.

73, ED - KL7UW

At 07:15 AM 6/15/2020, Paul Kiesel via ak-vhf wrote:
>  Brandon, well done. Looking forward to seeing the results.
>73, Paul K7CW
>
>    On Sunday, June 14, 2020, 11:55:55 PM PDT, Brandon Clark 
> <kl7bsc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hello everyone,
>
>After a 4 hour delay in Turnagain construction traffic I'm back in
>Anchorage again. I'll send out more details tomorrow, but the shirt version
>is that this is a new record for the club river station. 61 contacts.
>Full details tomorrow.
>73,
>Brandon, KL7BSC
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