[NLRS] KC9BQA EN63ao contest

[Todd Sprinkmann]

   My claimed score is 32,849.  Wasn't able to op much 
on Saturday -- only about hour and a half.  Got back on 
about 9am Sunday and worked until the last 15 mins. when 
skeeters started getting loose in the shed.

   902/2304 wouldn't fire up for this 'test.  No idea why; 
I left everything just as it was when it worked nicely back 
in September.  Figure my score would have been about 
50K, had 902 and 2304 been functional.  Sorry I couldn't 
give out EN63 on those bands.  We'll have that corrected 
somehow for August UHF, if not sooner.  1296 module 
in the Icom 910H worked FB.  Grateful for that.  

   Sunday cx's seemed flat at best.  6 tried to open at 
various times, but never got red-hot.  Last year's June 
contest and then the CQ WW VHF in July really 
spoiled me on 6 meters.  My sense is that overall 
activity was pretty good.  

    There was good rover activity in all directions.  W9FZ 
to my west and northwest.  NE8I and KF8QL over in 
Michigan and K9JK and WB8BZK to the south.  I 
called towards N9TTX, KF0Q and W0ZQ on their 
published freq's fairly often on Sunday but never heard 
a whisper of either them or any stations they might have 
been working.  I hope everything turned out OK with their 
roves, and with everyone else's.  In fact, the only MN 
I scared up was K0KFC in EN35.  Worked him with 
N0AKC in EN44 in the middle.  That was fun.

    Band-by-band counts were as follows:

    50:   62 Q's in 30 grids.  
  144:  49 Q's in 22 grids.
  222:  36 Q's in 20 grids.
  432:  38 Q's in 21 grids.
1296:  16 Q's in 14 grids.

   73,
   Todd  KC9BQA    EN63ao