[NLRS] 2009 August UHF Congrats - how about 2011?

[John (JK) Kalenowsky, K9JK]

Congrats to the team at Buck Hill and all of the fixed stations
and rovers that made contacts with them!

How about 2011?

I've just submitted the Results article for the 2010 UHF Contest
(and "late" but I HOPE it still makes the January 2011 QST); log
submissions/activity did ebb in 2010 as compared to 2009.

I've re-initiated my 'subliminal' (NOT!) message as I put in the
2008 results article to top 200 logs submitted (which was 
accomplished in 2009 and in 2010) but setting the 2011 goal to 
top >>250<< and finally clear the "249" log count threshhold set 
in 1994 and 1999.

Might 2011 August be the time for another W0AUS Multi-Op UHF
Contest effort?

Will KM0T be operational at his new location?

Can Rovermania VIII be the BEST yet?

I'm already counting down to 1800 UTC on August 6, 2011.

(>250 in 2011! >250 in 2011! >250 in 2011!)

73, JK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <w0zq at aol.com>
To: <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 09:20
Subject: [NLRS] 2009 August UHF Contest - W0AUS


>
>
>
> Hello NLRS land
>
> This weekend I received in the mail the 1st Place US & Canada
> Multioperator certificate for W0AUS for the 2009 ARRL August
> UHF Contest.  The paper certificate lists multi-op station
> members K0TAR, KA0RYT, N0HJZ, N0KP, amd WA0RSE as op's.  I
> will make a copy of the award for all five of you and get them
> to you one way or another.
>
> You may recall that the club had a focused effort in 2009 to
> see what Rovermania can do for fixed station scoring,
> particularly for a multi-op.  These five guys braved the
> frozen tundra found at the top of Buck Hill for 469 contacts,
> 198 grids, and a score of 528,660 points, all on 222 and up.
> This score shattered the previous Dakota Division multi-op
> record of 86,136 set back in 2005 and is the highest multi-op
> score in the nation since W2SZ score of 535,680 points in
> 2004.   The following 27 rovers were worked for a total of 349
> contacts - W0ZQ/R, K0MHC/R, KC0IYT/R. W9FZ/R, W7XU/R,
> WA0VPJ/R, N0UK/R, K0HAC/R, KC0P/R, N0HZO/R, WB0LJC/R, K0PC/R,
> KE3QY/R, N0DQS/R, WA2VOI/R, K0PG/R, K9ILT/R, K9JK/R, N0EDV/R,
> N0QJM/R, KB0NES/R, W0JT/R, KC0OIA/R, KC0PMW/R, W0IS/R,
> KD0ABR/R, and WB8BZK/R.  In addition to this another 64 home
> stations were worked for a total of 120 contacts.
>
> As we move through the heart of this falls HF contesting
> season and into winter, now is a good time to consider updates
> and upgrades to your VHF+ station for next summers season.
> 222 and 902 are awesome bands and the club has lots of local
> activity on 10 GHz.   As an example of increased high band
> activity, in 1994 (a record year for logs), 902 generated 572
> contacts in all logs received while in 2009 there were 1,778,
> an increase of 211%.  On 10 GHz the increase from 1994 to 2009
> was from 95 to 811 Q's, or 754% !
>
> In summary, congratulations to the 2009 UHF contest W0AUS
> multiop crew and to NLRS for a fine showing.
>
>
> 73, Jon
> W0ZQ
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