[NLRS] Sep Contest

Andrew T. Flowers, K0SM [email protected]
Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:16:50 -0400


Hi folks,

I just thought that I would throw my two cents in.  Instead of operating 
from Nebraska, I decided I would put up a few 100ft towers, find KW's 
for 6-432, throw in some microwave equipment and move to a well 
populated part of the country.  Since that was impossible, I jumped into 
the W2FU/FN13 multi-op, which had all of that stuff and some fine 
operators to boot :)

All I can say is that it is a different world over here on this side of 
the lakes!  I always wondered how folks got such tremendous scores out 
here.  I guess alot of it has to do with the number of folks on the 
microwaves, including many of the rovers.  You can imagine what it's 
like to have six mountain-top stations that you can work through 10 GHz, 
and even a few on 24GHz--you can also do the math and see what that does 
to a score!

It was nice to work a few of you on 6m and 2m scatter, which gave me a 
reason not to sleep Saturday night!  I hope everyone had a good time!

Andy K0SM/2