[NLRS] Results of weekend exercise

[Clair J. Robinson]

I'm pleased with the results achieved. Best contest I ever had thanks to
all the activity.

Upper: Calling CQ with beam to east and getting call from NoDak.

Downer: Inability to attract any attention on 144.180 'way out west
although it was obvious that some folks out there were having a good
time.

Curiousity 1: Working many of you on 1296 with maybe only 25% of the
power I had available. I found a dandy feature in my FT-896 that let me
set it to read out 1296.100.00 instead of 144.100.00. During a slow
period on Sunday afternoon, I found that selecting the xvtr display also
seems to fix the output power at about 2 watts whereas I needed more
like 6 or 8 to drive my xvtr as it was set up. I can fix that but for
the rest of the contest I went back to the old fashioned blah display.

Curiousity 2: I got a call Saturday night telling me that I was wiping
out all n times 100 channels on my neighbor's satellite TV system! So I
operated with only 10 watts on 6 -- MOST of the time.

Band	QSOs	Grids

50	74	40
144	78	21
222	14	6
432	41	12
1296	23	8

Totals	230	87

Claimed Score: 28,797

73, CJ K0CJ