[NLRS] UHF 2009 Wow! For W9FZ/R

[Bruce Richardson]

Wow!  I had a great time and set a personal record!
Activity levels were HIGH.  Yes, conditions generally stayed
at the normal range or shorter for most of it. But I had one
or two minor extensions of normal range (EN52-EN71 and
EN44-EN12)

There were many highlights. I'll get to those in a minute.

The only lowlights I can think of is not working EN25, EN55,
EN64 and EN62. While I'm VERY pleased with regional rover
activity, we need YET MORE ! :-)  A rover would have filled
those in nicely.  Oh, a couple of callsigns weren't on that
I wish were.

Highlights: Excellent weather. Sure, chilly on Sat night but
that was refreshing. No bugs. Many fixed stations following
me around consistently yielding lots of Q's. LOTS of Rovers!
Many rover-to-rover Q's. None of them orchestrated and none
over trivial distances.  But boy did those rovers help fill
in my grid map.  Another highlight was every 2.3 GHz and 10
GHz contact. More contacts and more grids this year.  

Bob, K2DRH swept me on 5 bands in all 8 Grids! That's 40
QSO's!  Other frequently worked calls: W0AUS (37), KC9BQA
(25), W0UC (26), K2YAZ (18), ND9Z (13), and W9GA (12). Jay,
W9RM, with 2 bands found me in 4 of the 8 grids--thanks!
But ya know, all the contacts are  appreciated even if I
only worked them once on one band.

Rovers!  A whopping 91 rover-to-rover contacts (26%).  I
worked K9JK/R, K0PG/R, K9ILT/R, KC0IYT/R, N0EDV/R, N9GH/R,
W0ZQ/R, W7XU/R, WA9O/R, and WB8BZK/R.  Most of the rovers
gave me valuable needed grids.  I worked a whopping 25 Q's
with WA9O/R--closest one was 95 miles.

I guess what impressed me about this year was that I stayed
busy--in the UHF contest--where antennas are pointy and
CQ'ing is tough.  Very good grid coverage this time as well.
This one will be hard for me to beat.  

Rovers PLEASE come work the Dodgeville and Wausau corners
during a future contest. See what fun I've been having!!
I'll be elsewhere in September (more on that later) so
Rovers should start planning for this coming September to
activate Dodgeville and Wausau. You will be swamped in
multiple directions.

I'm working on some graphic map images with the paths worked
from this UHF weekend on them.  Stand by for those.  Paper
log will be going in marked "Badger Contesters".

Thanks to all who got on and especially to all those I
worked--you helped me get this nice score. Wow!
73
Bruce Richardson W9FZ/R

Here's my new personal record high score:

RoverLog QSOs by Activated Grid:
Grid	QSOs	Grid	QSOs	Grid	QSOs
EN45	49	EN54	25	EN55	46
EN42	39	EN43	45	EN52	59
EN44	36	EN53	49	

RoverLog Score Summary, Using new rover rules:
Band	QSOs	Value	QSOPts	Mults
222	94	3	282	22
432	106	3	318	22
902	59	6	354	16
1.2	56	6	336	16
2.3	20	12	240	8
3.4	0	12	0	0
5.7	0	12	0	0
10	13	12	156	7
24	0	12	0	0
47	0	12	0	0
76	0	12	0	0
119	0	12	0	0
142	0	12	0	0
241	0	12	0	0
300	0	12	0	0

Grids activated: 		8

Totals:	348		1686	99	

Claimed Score: 166914