[NLRS] W9FZ/R States Above 50 Mhz Award participation

[Bruce Richardson]

For the first time ever, I'm submitting an entry for the CSVHFS
States Above 50 MHz Award.  The award recognizes those who
annually contact 30 or more band-states on the VHF+ bands.
Single-op, Multi-op, and Rover categories exist although Multi-op
is the least used (Hey W0AUS, enter with your Jun logs).

I'm sending in a Rover entry which allows me to collect all the
states I've worked from whereever I was at the time.  And yes, my
travel may make it easier to get more states, but I'm only being
compared with other Rovers.

First, I went to the CSVHFS website and reread all the info there.
http://csvhfs.org/CSVHFTST.HTML
Then I printed out 8 of the tracking sheets to use 1 per band. I
used the .pdf versions. I also printed out 1 page of the
summary/entry sheets.

I pulled out my contest logs from Aug UHF 08 (Iowa), Sept VHF 08
(UP Mich), 10G (MN), Jan VHF 09 (Wisc), and the just completed Jun
VHF 09 (Wisc).  I also had 2 pages of lined paper from last July
when I was out in Nebraska driving to the Wichita CSVHFS
conference and caught a 6m opening.  So I went through all of
those logs and filled out the 8 band sheets. It was kinda fun to
relive the year of radio.  The two 6m openings were big helps,
obviously.

Here's what I ended up with:

6m	32
2m	7
222	7
432	9
903	5
1.2	7
2.3	5
10G	5

Total	77

Stations don't need to give their state during the QSO (although
you can ask). You are trusted to do your best to determine state.
I had two QSO's during the different 6m openings where the grid I
had marked down didn't jive with what they had listed in QRZ--so I
just didn't take any credit for those.

So, this process was so fun, I intend to track my states next year
AND (this is the key point) the award program will motivate me to
increased activity next year.  The new program year starts July
1st, 2009.  Now I can recontact all those easy states again and
they "matter".

Thanks for listening and I hope you participate in the program
too--and enjoy it.  Hmmmm, where will I rove next year?

73
Bruce Richardson W9FZ/R