[NLRS] ARRL UHF K9JK/R

[John (JK) Kalenowsky, K9JK]

All,

Forwarding the report I created on Bruce/WA7BNM's web page that went to 3830 
(below).

Congrats to the 'more maniacal' rovers and their accomplishments...from the 
reports that I 've seen from Jon, Jim and Andy...WOW! I'm looking forward to 
seeing similar reports from Bruce, Gene and Matt.

To the 'new' multi-op attempts, N0HJZ and K9CVC...while it sounds like you 
each experienced Murphy's presence, you 'learned' from those experiences and 
managed to beat Murphy back and were certainly there and quite copiable when 
I worked you.

It was also great to have some solid...possibly slightly enhanced conditions 
to be able to work the number of the fixed stations as reliably as I did. 
The support of this effort by the NLRS, BC and CVVHF groups was certainly 
apparent.

As some family issues evolved, MY initial thoughts of going out to 
EM09,19,EN00,10 and working back north and east forced a 'taming' of the 
maniac in me, almost to the point that I didn't even attempt to get to 
EN33,34,43,44 and still wishing that I could have gotten there earlier to 
have been able to 'activate' EN34 and EN44 from that corner. Still, for a 
'coverage' of seven grids with 3.1 bands, I am quite pleased and thankful to 
all who were there for me TO work.

I guess it's not too early to be thinking about Rovermania III ;-) (though I 
think I'll be applying some thought to September prior to any thought about 
next August).

73, JK

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                    ARRL August UHF QSO Party

Call: K9JK/R
Operator(s): K9JK
Station: K9JK/R

Class: Rover HP
QTH: EN33,43,51-53,61,62
Operating Time (hrs): 13

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  222:   64    20
  432:   64    14
  903:    4     2
  1.2:   20     9
  2.3:
  3.4:
  5.7:
  10G:
  24G:
-------------------
Total:  152    52  Total Score = 27,456

Club:

Comments:

Calling this a 3.1 band effort due to the return of deafness to the 903
Transverter and not having time to open the unit up to repair before the
contest.

Covered the 3 of the 4 Grids close to home (EN62, 51 and 61) with a late 
start
on Saturday, plus a little bit of time in EN52. Left early Sunday morning to
drive through EN52, EN53 and EN43, targetting to reach the EN33/34/43/44 
Grid
Corner with at least two hours to go in the contest...but only had about an 
hour
and 5 minutes when I arrived. I made the most of it with 17 Qs from EN33
(including 3 over 200 miles) in about 40 minutes, hopped back to EN43 for
another 4 Qs in another 10 minutes, back to EN33 for a band I'd missed with 
one
of the 200 mile stations and finally back to EN43 for a 1296 QSO that was my
last, at 1759. Or is that bad rover behavior...hopping back and forth across 
a
grid line to work more stations? (At least they weren't other rovers.)

Highlights...worked three stations from 6 of the 7 Grids I visited on 222, 
N9DG,
N9TZL and KC9BQA. The same three stations were also prominent on 432, N9DG 
from
6, N9TZL and KC9BQA from 5. 33 Total calls in the log. Two other 'prominent'
QSOs were while I was MOBILE...on 222, a 250 mile path from I-90 near 
LaCrosse,
WI (EN43ju), to KM0T and the other on 1296 from EN52xc to K2YAZ.

While I wasn't totally "maniacal", I tried to lend support to Rovermania II 
and
I congratulate what I have seen on other reflectors about some of the 
results
from stations up in and around the Minneapolis 'SUPER-extended' area. I 
think it
brought out a lot more stations that I was able to work...I suspect just 
from
the 'promise' of more stations being out there TO work.

73, JK