[AK-VHF] Rover Run Complete

Tue Jun 16 02:10:38 EDT 2020

Ken,

Sounds like an interesting trip.  Noted in the news that smoke was 
limiting travel on the old Murphy Dome road; wonder if you encountered any?

VHF Contests up here start out on 144.200 SSB; I started calling on 
6m about 1820+ but on 50.125 SSB.  Probably no one down in the 
lower-48 does that anymore.  Heard no openings to the south; K3 was 
on 6m all day.  Mid-afternoon (2100ish) is tried to get FT8 running 
on 50.313, but had audio problems in Rx.  I did hear a strong signal 
briefly in the speaker (like a carrier).  Too often Es skip over us 
up to BP64-land.

Good memories of your first rove in AK.

73, Ed - KL7UW

At 09:52 PM 6/15/2020, Ken K wrote:
>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/>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
> > <<mailto:kl7bsc at gmail.com>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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