[NLRS] W9FZ/R in CQ-VHF 2011

[cqbilld at q.com]

Hi Bruce

  Heard and saw several working you late ... Never really sure that I ever heard you ... that weak. 2m conditions were p-o-o-r. Wasn't on much Saturday at all and on mostly 6m on Sunday. Son, grandson and daughter from CA and MI here visiting.

  73  Bill  K0AWU  EN37ed

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Richardson" <w9fz at w9fz.com>
To: badgercontesters at mailman.qth.net, nlrs at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 1:04:43 PM
Subject: [NLRS] W9FZ/R in CQ-VHF 2011



I had a good time in general.  Things were pretty quiet on Saturday
during the day. By evening, things turned nice!

I probably should have done the reverse route and more could have
taken advantage of EN46/56 when conditions were better.  Basically, I
thought Saturday was dead. Big RF sponge and low activity levels.

I appreciated the fixed stations who tracked me down in all of the
grids:  W9RM, W9GA, W9RPM, WV9E, W0ZQ, and K2DRH.  And it was nice to
run across many of the BC'ers and NLRS'ers multiple times

While 144.250 was nice and quiet and made our q's there easy, Only you
regulars found me there. I think it was too far from the action in
this contest (with these activity levels).

Highlights were W8BYA EN70, the Q's out to EN21 and EN10, and K0MHC in
EN26.  Nice to have W0ANH, K0MVJ, and K0KP on for a reason to turn
north. I kept looking for K0AWU but never found him.

Heard K9JK/R and called but was not heard.


RoverLog QSOs by Activated Grid:
Grid	QSOs	Grid	QSOs	Grid	QSOs
EN45	33	EN54	42	EN55	50
EN46	15	EN56	12	EN44	43

RoverLog Score Summary, Using old rules:
Band	  QSOs	Value	QSOPts	Mults
50	  102	  	1	102		71
144	  93	  	2	186		64

Totals: 195			288		135	
	
Claimed Score: 38880


For any WIVUCH county hunters, you got
Iron     16Jul 1800-1955Z
Vilas    16Jul 2040-2210Z
Oneida   17Jul 0030-0045Z  3 Q's (WV9E, N9LB, K9WKW)
Lincoln  17Jul 0100-0430Z
Marathon 17Jul 1230-1545Z
Clark    17Jul 1615-1810Z
Taylor   17Jul 1840-2100Z

73
Bruce Richardson W9FZ/R