[NLRS] KM0T Contest Results

[Mike King - KM0T]

Doesnt look like this posted, so here it is again.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike King - KM0T" <scsueepe@mtcnet.net>
To: <nlrs@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:38 PM
Subject: KM0T Contest Results


Hi all,

Better late then never, the Contest writeup for the June 2002 VHF QSO party
is up on the website.  Lots of good reading, lots of good pictures, etc.  Be
patient non broadband internet connectees.... lots of pictures.  Enjoy.

In addtion, writeups for the UHF and recent September contest will be done
in due time.  ( Due time is defined based on the discretion of the author
and local family QRM!:)

September was alot of fun, pretty poor propagation however.  I would say it
was just like last June contest, but without any 6M es.  (not that June had
anything worth talking about either)

Highlights and Lowlights.....

Catching Bill, K0AWU for a quick one, he was strong for a minute.  No go on
432 however.

Working Jerry WB9Z up thru 1296 on a quick propagation bubble.

Working EN58 - VE3KRP on 144 and 432.  Very unexpected!

Catching Tim and Pat for at least one qso!  Thanks for working me!

Catching Andy K0SM while he was multi-opping out east on 6M WSJT.  I then
heard you Andy on 2M calling me, then it appeared someone turned the switch
off on you.

Not a peep out of the Colorado folks.  Called out there a bunch but no go.

Also called CQ WSJT for quite a bit, no go there either.

Catching Garth, W0GR for some high band qsos!

Working Gene, N0DQS/R in all grids on all band was my major goal to test out
the new tower and 5.7 and 10 ghz gear. 16 grids total.  The main part of
that goal was to see if we could do 5.7 and 10 Ghz in all those grids.  We
did 8 grids during the UHF contest no sweat.  Well, the equipment worked
very well and it went pretty good.  Average distance was 100 miles or so
with only a few shorties,  most were over 115 miles.  The longest few about
130 miles.  250 mw on 5.7 was working good.  We typically peaked on 10 Ghz
first (where the higher power is), in order to find each other, then 5.7 was
a breeze.  Average time to get peaked and find each other was around 2
minutes.  Sometime shorter, sometimes immediatly.  Towards the end, when we
were both tired out.  Then it took about 5 minutes.  Drifting was not an
issue with the overall ambient temp being much lower than mid summer where I
had experieced drifting issues.  We only had to go CW for one 10 Ghz
contact, all the rest SSB.

Worked some new rovers!  Good to hear you guys ot there.  Keep up the good
work! I appreciate you looking my way!

Score was just over 183K, too bad 6M had not opened up, really could have
blown it wide open then :)

Thanks for all the qsos to those who worked me.  I have also enjoyed all the
local webpage writeups on their contest efforts!

Back to check on my girls!

CU AGN

73

Mike - KM0T en13vc
www.qsl.net/km0t