[NLRS] N9DG SOLP June Results

[Duane - N9DG]

June 2006Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:  340   122
    2:   92    34
  222:   39    22
  432:   59    24
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Total:  530   202  Total Score = 126,856

Club: Badger Contesters

Well like everyone else from this part of the world 6M was
the big story. The higher band results clearly did suffer
because of it. However I am quite pleased that I was able to
make a respectable showing on the higher bands with a
majority of the contacts being made late Saturday and through
Sunday. I was noticing the short skip on 6M a couple of times
and kept an ear and eye on 2M, there was no 2M Es here that I
could find. The higher band conditions seemed about normal,
not bad, but not good, unfortunately the activity was
somewhat sparse. I did not see the spike in 2M+ activity when
6M slowed down like I usually do; everyone must have been
tired.

I was pleased to sweep K8GP (@~650 miles) on all 4 of my
bands, I think that's only the second time that I've ever
done that. I was hoping to hear some of the other East/Mid
Atlantic powerhouses on 2M and above as well, no such luck

Other than the chronic PC reboots (not RF related) and
powerline noise @S3-5 in some directions the equipment played
well. The one other problem was that the poor Pegasus IF
radio was getting munched by the big signals on 6M. That
needs to be an area of focus for future improvements. Can't
live without spectrum sweep or point and click tuning though.
I guess I better get serious about getting the SDR-1000 on
line for transverter IF duties.

In the end I set a new person all time high score. Beat my
previous best by about 40K. I can see that there are some
really big scores already. Gotta love VHF contesting, there
are just so many different propagation modes and conditions
that can swing the outcome so dramatically from one contest
to the next.

Once things settled down on 6M I actually did stick pretty
close to my original plan of sweeping my S-through N via W
for about half of the time that I was on :).

Duane
N9DG
EN53bj

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