[NLRS] UHF 2009 Wow! For W9FZ/R

[N0HJZ at aol.com]

Bruce -
 
Huge score and some great comments.  
 
My favorite moment from the contest was about 5 am on Sunday.  You  were 
driving to your next grid and you were CQing as you drove.  I'm sure  you were 
doing this to stay awake.  No one was answering because most  people were 
still asleep.  You were CQing in a southern accent, then a  British accent, 
then a Scandinavian accent.  It was hilarious to  listen to!

A great rover effort!  Congrats!
Rich N0HJZ  
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/13/2009 8:07:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
w9fz at w9fz.com writes:



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


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