[NLRS] W9FZ 1st weekend report...

[Bruce Richardson]

Hi Gang:

Well here's the wrap-up report for the first weekend.  I didn't mean to
slight any of the Illinois-Michigan operations that I had on Saturday in my
earlier message.  It was different but a heck of a lot of fun.  While you
guys were battling winds, we had beautiful weather.  Saturday was truly a
nice day.  I ended up with 2266 points for the first day with only 9 Q's.
It shows the value of LONG distance Q's.  3 with K2YAZ at 190, 180, and 160
miles. One each with WB9SPT and WB8TGY at 167 miles.  All the rest were
shorter.

Sunday, although I was pushing myself with not much sleep, still was a great
day.  How bout that weather?  I got on the radio at about 7am to see what
was going on.  I was out the door by 8:30am on my way to Red Wing.  When I
arrived about 9:05 am, the gate was still locked.  Bummed, I started towards
my other location.  But then I turned around thinking that the park just HAS
to be open on such a nice Sunday.  By the time I made it back to the park,
the gate was open.  I tried calling KB0LYL on simplex freqs to see if he
knew what time the park opened but never found him.

I got up to the top of the hill and all set up.  I quickly worked LJC, GHZ,
SHF, and KFC.  Then I relocated to Vasa and quickly worked SHF/KFC so that
they could move.  Then I worked UK GHZ, LJC VOI, AUS and then SHF/KFC again
at their next location.  All took about 50 minutes at the Vasa stop.  Then
on to my third spot at Cannon Valls.  In just 5 minutes I banged out 4 q's
and then was on my way to Mounds Park.

At Mounds Park I was gratified by the new callsigns.  Thanks to all those
guys who came out.  See W0ZQ's summary email on how to get on Narrowband.
On the Sunday I picked up 2555 points so now my current total is at 4821.  I
had a dinner-date in Alexandria at 5pm which I made exactly on-time however
my plans for Q's from Monticello had to be scrapped.  Sunday I had 22 Q's.

I know not all of you want to go to Lake Superior for September.  In my
case, I am and looking forward to it.  I will be in the middle of my annual
vacation and some time on the shores of Lake Superior is just how I want to
spend some of my vacation.  I seriously want to end the contest on Brockway
working whoever will/can work me.

Bruce Richardson - W9FZ

Thanks for coming to the Milwaukee CSVHFS conference.  See you in Tulsa in
'03 http://www.csvhfs.org