[NLRS] JAN 2002 VHF SS

[Ed Fitch]

>Hello to all NLRS folks:
>
>This Jan contest I only was home about 1/3 of the contest - so I got
>to operate about 5 hours total.   Having been gone all week prior to
>the contest, Friday night I found my rotator froze up - and did manage
>to shake it loose Sat morning.   Finally got into the shack about 15 minutes
>before start of contest, only to find no output from the 432 exiciter....
>(contest was not looking to promising so far.)
>
>Well, I got it together and played radio when I could this past weekend
>and here are the numbers:     MANY THANKS GO TO THE ROVERs!
>
>W0OHU SOLP EN34oa
>Band QSOs  Grids
>    50    6      4
>  144   46    16
>  432   37    13
>1296  11     7
>All   100    40   = 6360 points
>   (I thought these were some neat numbers to end contest with)
>
>About 1/6 of my QSOs were on CW, and no FM QSOs.
>Another GREAT contest - seemed like more stations were
>on and on 432 most activity was on 432.120, but on 2m
>the VFOs again seemed to be stuck on 144.200.
>
>73,  ed
>EN34oa
>w0ohu@arrl.net

Ed Fitch
Kasson, MN