[NLRS] Jan Score at KM0T EN13 SOHP

[Mike King - KM0T]

Hi all, real quickly, here is my score.

I have not gone thru the log, but I did not experience any dupes or logging
problems during the contest so Im pretty sure its good to go.

I will do a good writeup on the webpage someday soon (The september contest
writeup is nearly finished! Im a bit behind) but here are a few highlights
for Jan 2002.....

The contest here was not too bad, but propagation to the east and NE was
something to be desired.  I did have a run to the east to EN61 up thru 900
mhz, that was pretty good.  Condix to the south were pretty good, seemed
that is were the tropo really was.  To the west was non existant...no DM
grids at/near Colorado.  Lots of slow tropo QSB....kinda fun!

The high bands were pretty tough going no matter where one pointed.

6M backscatter was pretty good, made up some grids there.  Was watching that
all week due to the flux hanging in there above 200 for the week.  Never did
hear anything all week or Saturaday, but Sunday it came in pretty well.
Worked a few JAs on 6M for some late excitement Sunday night, missed the
majority of that opening however.

Worked a half a doz contacts on WSJT....could have worked many more as I
called and called CQ on 2M and 6M WSJT late night...ran out of operators I
think cause the rocks were there, especially on 6M.  North - South path was
bad however...most qsos WSJT were to the East.

Heard some weak Es to the East right as the contest closed...forgot to check
as I was chasing N0DQS/R.

Thanks to all the contesters and rovers.  Gene really helped my score.  The
rovers to the east and NE were dang near impossible to hear...not good,
could have really helped as I was sitting doing nothing for many periods.

The 902 amp was not running up to snuff...50 watts out, not 150 as it
normally does.  I think I toasted something the week prior while I was doing
some testing...arghhh.

Food for thought....I was running a rotor surge module to protect the
conductors of the rotor the last three years.  I had been experiences
problems for the last 6 months with my digital readout and the rotor getting
sync pulses..very intermitent and frustrating...I took the surge module off
and never had any probs all weekend.  So the polyphaser rotor protector may
have taken a hit at some time and was dragging the lines too close to
ground.  Just FYI for those with OR2800 rotors and digital readouts.

73 and thanks again everyone, had lots of fun.  Sorry to those that we were
not able to complete, that QSB can be a killer!

Mike - KM0T en13
www.qsl.net/km0t


Here is the box score...KM0T

Entry Type:           SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH
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                Valid
                QSOs    Pts/QSO   QSO Pts   Mult
50 MHz           94      1         94        56
144 MHz          97      1         97        44
222 MHz          41      2         82        28
432 MHz          51      2         102       32
902 MHz          29      4         116       21
1296 MHz         29      4         116       20
2304 MHz         19      8         152       18
3456 MHz         19      8         152       18

Total
All Bands        379               911       237

KM0T CLAIMED SCORE:   215907

I will be sending this in to the ARRL very soon via the email submission.