[AK-VHF] contest

[Brandon Clark]

Hi Ken,

Thanks for going to the effort to set up a rover station up there. Going out as a rover is a lot of work, but it sure is fun to have another station to chase.

I'm planning to do rover runs in both June and September this year, so keep in touch and let me know what your plans are. I'm thinking that one of my rover runs will be down to Homer, but I'm not sure about the other. I might try a run north up to Fairbanks and make some contacts up there on a Sunday.
73,

Brandon Clark, KL7BSC
https://brandonclarklabs.com/

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On Monday, January 17th, 2022 at 21:08, Ken K via ak-vhf <ak-vhf at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who listened for me. In addition to working KL7UW and AL7LO on Saturday, I also decoded K7YK a few times. I’ve used the 3-el yagi and less power for previous QSOs into Southcentral and the Kenai Peninsula when the band was closed. Since stations south of the range apparently decoded me much more frequently than I decoded them, I think the lack of contacts may have been related to a very strong inversion going on here this weekend. A common occurrence here when warm air pushes in over a very cold stable air mass; it often results in vivid displays from Fairbanks of a phenomenon known as Fata Morgana, a type of mirage that reflects images directly above themselves.
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> Saturday was typical; from my vantage points, I could see the peaks of the Alaska Range reflected upside down above the range. It’s a cool thing to see. I’m guessing refraction of radio waves blocked my reception somehow. Here’s a good site for descriptions of tropospheric dx modes: https://www.dxinfocentre.com/propagation/tr-modes.htm. The Twitter feed for the National Weather Service Fairbanks office Jan 14 has a good description and picture of the Fata Morgana. It was still happening this afternoon.
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> I'll send a check log in for the contest. Lets try again this spring; I think we’ll have better luck.
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> 73,
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> Ken NL7B
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> On Sunday, January 16, 2022, 09:58:13 PM AKST, Ed Cole kl7uw at acsalaska.net wrote:
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> Hope everyone enjoyed the contest.
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> Very little activity except on 6m-FT8 for me:
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> Happy to work three grids: BP51, BP64, BO49
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> Working Ken-NL7B/R in Fairbanks in grid BP64 on FT8 was the most
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> gratifying. We also tried from Murphy Dome (BP54) both days but Ken
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> could not see me. I got his FT8 signals both days and his MS using
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> MSK144 on Sunday.
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> Ken was using a 3-element yagi so guess it was not quite enough from BP54.
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> KL7HBK BO49 was a nice surprise which increased my grid count to three.
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> Final score 45
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> 1 144
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> 1 222
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> 6 50
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> Please consider submitting a log and indicating club membership of "AK
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> VHF-Up Group" if a member. Club gets mention in contest results if
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> three logs or more are submitted.
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> Go to: http://www.arrl.org/january-vhf
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> use: www.b4h.net/cabforms/ to make a cabrillo log
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> it will link you to the log submission form after you complete your log
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> entries. Note: voice modes are entered as ph, digital modes as dg, cw
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> as cw.
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> 73, Ed - KL7UW
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