[NLRS] 144 sprint

[Zack Widup]

Thanks for the QSO Ken!

I wondered where everybody was. I know it didn't help showing up
during the last hour and a half of contest, but I only made 10 QSO's
in 9 grids. Maybe everyone else had their antennas pointed away from
me.

The little Yagi I designed using Yagi Optimizer has a very high F/B
ratio. It seems to be a very sharp beam. If I rotate it 30 degrees
either way, a signal drops to almost nothing unless it's extremely
strong. I rotated a lot and called CQ and only got answers from the
north and east. K9MRI gave me a QSO even though the contest was over
for him. So did W9WZK.

I never heard K9JK/R. My noise level was very high on the hill in
EN50ue that I used. This hill is about 15 minutes from home and has
two commercial towers on it. One is a local FM station and the other
has microwave dishes on it. I've never noticed noise levels like last
night from there before, though. It was also very very foggy. That may
have had something to do with it.

I think I did hear W9FZ/R very faintly. I called CQ on CW in his
direction, hoping he could hear me and that we could work on CW, but
never heard any CW signal come back from that way.

Anyway, I hope to be on in the 222 Sprint too.

73, Zack W9SZ


On 9/20/11, Ken Boston <kboston at lsr.com> wrote:
>
>
> What a difference a week makes!
>
> After a particularly slow Sept ARRL test, with about 60 QSOs on 144 during
> the whole weekend, a better station turnout on Monday PM put 42 Qs and 24
> grids into the logbook.  I ended up doing only a little CQing, and instead
> arranged several skeds on the ON4KST logger.  This was done in just about 3
> hours!! (7:15-10:15)  I switched to 50 meg with some time left in the
> sprint, because of the presence of KB8U/P in a rare grid that I need on 6.
> I did not have all the WSJT stuff plugged in, so quickly configured the
> rigblaster, and laptop to run. So, the 'capper' for the evening was a 30
> minute JT441 contact with EN86 on 50 meg!  Needless to say, I went to bed
> with that warm glow of accomplishment and enjoyment in my aching bones.
>
> Again, thanks for the rovers and portable op's!!!!!!!!
>
> In the words of K7BV; "I love this hobby"
>
> 73  Ken  W9GA
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