[NLRS] KK6MC/r worked some NLRS members in June VHF Contest

[James Duffey]

Here are my results from the June VHF Contest rove. For once I had  
propagation into Northern Lights territory and it was nice to talk to  
some of you that I only have known by exchanging e-mails.

QSOs by Activated Grid:
Grid	QSOs	Grid	QSOs	Grid	QSOs
DM65	31	DM35	9	DM44	4
DM54	6	DM36	6	DM45	28
DM46	8	DM55	13	DM64	25

Score Summary:
Band	QSOs	Value	QSOPts	Mults
50	56	1	56	25
144	34	1	34	7
222	14	2	28	4
432	20	2	40	4
902	0	3	0	0
1.2G	6	3	18	3
2.3G	0	4	0	0
3.4G	0	4	0	0
5.7G	0	4	0	0
10G	0	4	0	0

Grids activated: 		9

Totals:	130		176	52	

Claimed Score: 9152

Not a great score by any means, but pretty good out here in the  
sparsely populated (at least on VHF) southwest.

For more details and photos, see my Soapbox entry on the ARRL pages.

I went west to Az and then then north to the Grand Canyon. WA7JTM had  
set up a nice limited multi station there and I had encouraged him to  
work on 222 MHz and felt obliged to give him some contacts on that  
band. :^)=

When I got to the Grand Canyon, WA7JTM was working stations on 6M that  
I couldn't even tell were there. Something was wrong. As I was showing  
off the rover to the WA7JTM bunch, I noticed that the shorting link on  
my 6M loop was missing. So I took some time out to fix that and when  
we got underway again lots of midwest stations were on 6M. I probably  
had missed an hour or so of the opening driving up to the Grand  
Canyon. That was the only major problem I had during the contest.

The drive along the south rim from the campground where WA7JTM was to  
the Grand Canyon Village is magical for rovers. There is spectacular  
scenery and 4 grids from which to operate! From the NLRS area, I  
worked W0LS, WD0T, and W0LMB from the south rim. I managed to work  
WD0T from 4 grids. That was a blast.

Later in the day, in eastern AZ, on a nearly empty band, I worked  
KC0CF when the band opened for a few minutes.

It was lots of fun working you guys in the midwest. I hope we get some  
propagation from here to there in the CQ July contest. - Duffey