[NLRS] [BC'ers] K9JK/R CQWWVHF 2012 - "Road Trip!" (plus Central States and UHF Contest)

Thu Jul 26 09:30:36 EDT 2012

Hi all;  I was unable to participate much in the CQ contest thi past weekend, about 3 hours sporatically in little chunks.  I ended up with 68Q/39G on 50, and 8/6 on 144, total score of 3555.  Had some e skip on 50 meg, but not able to do much with it.

following evening had some nice e skip on 144 to the Gulf, but 144 seemed to be dropping into the Gulf waters most of the time, with some shortening that allowed EM50/60/80 for a few QSOs.  Also picked up a couple new 6 meter grids for FFMA, due to the short skip there.

Out the door to Cedar Rapids, hope to see a few familiar faces there.

Ken  W9GA

---- "John (JK) Kalenowsky wrote: 
> Hello BC and NLRS,
> 
> As others have reported, conditions sure looked promising on Saturday but Sunday 
> was Dr. Jekyll (or was Mr. Hyde the bad one?).
> 
> Actually, though, I did experience what may have been a little bit of 'enhanced' 
> tropo earlier Sunday morning down by the EM38/39/48/49 Grid Corner with QSOs to 
> EM27,28,29,36,EN40,41,50 on 2 meters (total of 37 Qs on 2 and 20 on 6 in a 
> little over two hours).
> 
> Thanks to BCer Duane, N9DG for my only contacts with Wisconsin, on both bands 
> from my first two stops down near Elkhart, IL (along I-55 near Exit 115, close 
> to 40 degrees N latitude).
> 
> Further details in the Comments section of what I posted to the 3830 list 
> (below).
> 
> I'm headed out to Cedar Rapids for the Central States Conference and hope to see 
> a few BCers and NLRSers there.
> 
> The weekend following brings the UHF Contest and I am STILL hoping to see the 
> log submission count break the 250 barrier for the UHF Test. Might 2012 be the 
> year? Got 222? Got 432? Got Microwave? Get on and make some contacts! (And 
> submit your log!)
> 
> 73, JK 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> 
>                     CQ Worldwide VHF Contest
> 
> Call: K9JK/R
> Operator(s): K9JK
> Station: K9JK/R
> 
> Class: Rover LP
> QTH: IL,MO&IA-11 Grids
> Operating Time (hrs): 
> 
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>     6:  101    75
>     2:   65    47
> -------------------
> Total:  166   122  Total Score = 28,182
> 
> Club: Mt Frank Contesters
> 
> Comments:
> 
> Similar to last year's CQ WW VHF, 2012 had one day as the 50 MHz 
> contest and the other day as the VHF contest. This year the 50 MHz 
> contest was on Saturday and Sunday was the VHF contest (reversed 
> from 2011).
> 
> My 2012 rove covered 11 different Grids in West Central Illinois, 
> East Central/Northeastern Missouri and Southeastern Iowa.
> 
> While 50 MHz was similar, it was also different - my 50 MHz contacts 
> on Sunday in 2011 were largely into New England and the Mid-Atlantic 
> but Saturday of 2012 produced only TWO contacts into New England 
> (Massachusetts, & New Hampshire); other than that, my 50 MHz grid 
> map for Saturday 2012 was blank from EM61 to the north and east. 
> Contacts to Colorado and Florida were plentiful, 18 and 11, 
> respectively (some repeated as I worked the same station after 
> moving to a different grid). Thanks to K6MYC for his 'heavy lifting' 
> to copy my rover signal from Illinois in California, the one double 
> hop (over 1600 miles) QSO I was able to complete. Other contacts 
> via E-skip on Saturday were to the states of Georgia, Louisiana, 
> Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah and a station 
> in Mexico. North and South Carolina were added during a brief 
> opening on Sunday morning.
> 
> My first two grid stops on Saturday (EN50ga/fa and EM59fx&mobile) 
> were the most productive - 30 Qs on 6 (mostly E-skip and a few 
> tropo) plus 5 on 144 (all tropo) from EN50 and 25 Qs on 6 (mostly 
> E-skip and a few tropo) plus 9 on 144 (all tropo) from EM59. 
> EM58ax/bu/bt yielded 8 E-skip Qs on 6 (none on 2) and I found one 
> last E-skip Q on 6 from EM48mt followed by 1 each on 6 and 2 
> local/tropo from EM48wa before stopping for the night.
> 
> Early Sunday morning yielded a decent run of local/tropo contacts, 
> 20 on 6 and 37 on 2, as I moved among EM38xx (6 on 6, 9 on 2), 
> EM39xa (3 on 6, 7 on 2), EM48aw (4 on 6, 9 on 2) and 
> EM49aa (7 on 6, 12 on 2) since I was near that grid corner.
> 
> Departing that grid corner, I caught my only three E-skip 
> contacts of Sunday, 2 from EM48bx and 1 from EM49ba.
> 
> As I continued north, all remaining Qs were local/tropo. I 
> caught K9NS on 2 from EM49 while mobile and K2DRH on 6 and 2 
> from EM39. With conditions having gone flat, it  was really 
> helpful that K2DRH, K9AKS and K9NS followed me mobile through 
> EN30 and found me during brief stops at EN40aq, EN31xc and, 
> with 20 minutes to go in the contest, EN41ad.
> 
> The CoROVERolla's odometer clicked off 942 miles door-to-door which 
> works out to just under 6 miles driven for each of my 166 QSOs.
> 
> Of the 74 multipliers worked on 6, 40 of them were unique. Of the 
> 47 multipliers worked on 2, 14 of those were unique.
> 
> Thanks to all who were on and to CQ Magazine for their continued 
> sponsorship of this contest.
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