[NLRS] W0AMT/Rover Trip Report and Score Summary

[Jon W0AMT]

What an amazing contest.  John and I had a great time.  We spent the first 4
hours of the contest in Milwaukee and worked many locals there.  We worked
K2YAZ on all bands across Lake Michigan from the waterfront in Milwaukee.
We tryed again from further inland but did not have a good shot across the
lake for the high bands.  The 6 meter moxon worked good and we had several
150-170 mile ssb qso's with it.  We had an encounter with some low hanging
trees that partially dis-assembled and damaged the 6 meter moxon, we were
able to put it back together but it never did work the same after that.  We
got lost a couple of times in Milwaukee and by the time we got on the road
to western Wisconsin it was pretty late.  We worked several contacts from
EN42 and EN43 near Dodgeville and then headed towards the Iowa border and
the hotel.  Along the way we ran into KF0Q and some of the Eau Claire
stations and worked them from EN42. We got to the hotel about Midnight and
we were on the road by 7:00am  The bands were pretty quiet Sunday morning.
We did manage to work some stations along the way to the Algona, IA grid
corner and we worked several Twin Cities stations from the corner as well as
working KM0T on all bands from all 4 corners.  The highlight of the trip was
working W0GHZ on 2304 and 3456 while going north on I-35 at 70 MPH!!  We had
a great time working from EN25, Howard Lake and I am sure I provided some
entertainment during the EN24 pileup on 2 meters.

A great time was had by all inside the W0AMT rover mobile.  I am looking
forward to Rover Mania during the August UHF contest, none of those pesky 6
meter antennas to deal with.

Can't say enough good things about Roverlog for VHF logging software,
flawless operation.  we use it for voice keying and it is integrated with
the GPS so we don't need to type in the current grid it just knows where we
are.

73, Jon
W0AMT

RoverLog QSOs by Activated Grid:
Grid    QSOs    Grid     QSOs  Grid    QSOs
EN23    36       EN24      61     EN42   55
EN25    51       EN43      27     EN62   27
EN63    24       EN32      21     EN33   44
EN52    27       EN34      19     EN35   28
EN53    31       EN22      23

RoverLog Score Summary, Using new rover rules:
Band QSOs Value QSOPts Mults
50        87       1          87        24
144    134       1        134        18
222      73       2        146        12
432      83       2        166        14
902      24       3          72          6
1.2       40       3        120          8
2.3       17       4          68          4
3.4       16       4          64          3

Grids activated:   14

Totals: 474                857      103

Claimed Score: 88271