[NLRS] N0HJZ Sept Score - The Little Pistol Set-Up

[N0HJZ at aol.com]

Hi All -

I decided to stay home for this contest.  I don't have any antennas in the 
air so I needed to do something "Field Day" style.  

I borrowed a Jr. Boomer for 2M and 1.2 GHz antenna from Jon, W0ZQ (thanks 
Jon).  He also borrowed me a 1296 set-up.  I ended up with a five element 6M yagi 
on an armstrong rotation mast, up 15 feet off my deck.  The 13 elements on 
2M, 10 elements on 222, 18 elements on 432 and 6 ft rear-mount looper for 1296 
were all 6-10 feet off the deck.  All antennas were 16-20 feet in the air.  To 
the east of me were some trees and I had to beam through some weeping willos 
to the east and south.  My house was directly in the way to the north (it was 
easily another 15-20 feet to clear the house and I didn't feel like that much 
masting!).  I ran simple bricks on 6M - 432 and 10 watts on 1296.

I felt the bands were in pretty good shape through the weekend.  I worked on 
2M from EN74 to EN41 to EM29 and EN10.  Due to the house, the best I could do 
to the north was EN25/35/45.  

I thought the rovers were great!  I can't thank W9FZ, K9ILT, K0PG, KC0P, 
N0HZO, K0MHC & N0DQS enough for all the Q's!!

One thing we need to work on in the area is all the gabbing on the calling 
frequencies.  I heard new-comers and old-timers, single-ops and multi-ops all 
gabbing at times on the calling freqs.  144.200 was the worst but 50.125 was 
also bad.  People were using 144.200 to coordinate the higher bands or to talk 
about grid counts, etc.  One time on Sunday morning two stations were talking 
for a bit while W0GR (EM38) and K5SW (EM25?) were coming through on .200.  Let's 
work on this for future contests.  Move up to .250 for coordination or local 
rag chewing.

I thought I did very well considering my limited station.  I spent a lot of 
time with my butt in the chair waiting for the openings I could hear and called 
CQ alot.  I think it shows what a limited station can do.  Don't ever think 
your station is too small or your QTH has too many trees.

My score:

50 MHz - 53 x 16
144 MHz - 86 x 22
222 MHz - 46 x 18
432 MHz - 56 x 14
1296 MHz - 17 x 10
10 GHz - 1 x 1
TOTAL - 259 x 81 = 32,238 points
Single-Op Low-Power

73  Rich N0HJZ