[NLRS] W0UC January VHF SS results

[Paul Husby]

Call: W0UC
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: EN44hr  WI
Operating Time (hrs):

Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Mults
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     6:  114    57
     2:   60    29
   222:   30    18
   432:   37    18
   903:   10     5
   1.2:   15     7
   2.3:    1     1
   3.4:
   5.7:
   10G:    1     1
   24G:
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Total:  268   136  Total Score = 57,664

Club: Northern Lights Radio Society

Comments:
I thought conditions weren't too bad considering the weather that blew 
through.  We lost two half-elements off one of the 40M beams out at the 
Farm, and half a reflector on my 6M 4x4 to the southeast.  After things 
settled down Sunday morning, 902 & 1296 seemed a little better, though 
not to the north.  I failed to work K0AWU on 1296, for the first time in 
recent years I believe.

144 & 222 seemed pretty good later on Sunday.  I worked east to EN70 and 
EN82, south to EM48 and southwest to EM29.  A noise source that I've had 
at 305 degrees was S9 this weekend and pretty much killed any chance 
working to the NW.

Saturday evening we had intermittent Es to the Gulf Coast on 6M, but my 
skip was mostly into water.  I did manage to catch K9JK/R in two grids 
in Louisiana, very cool!  Sunday evening we seemed to be on the edge of 
the opening, but just a couple stations popped through.

Thanks to Mel & Carol for braving the weather on Saturday, they gave me 
a bunch of multipliers I would have missed otherwise.  Same to Bruce and 
Janice, though on Sunday I was unable to find them until their last stop 
in EN65.

Activity in Wisconsin was fairly decent.  Activity in the Twin Cities 
was almost non-existent.  EN35 has become a rare grid above 2M!

Thanks to W0AIH for warming up the shack before I got there.  But it's a 
very rare January SS when no plowing or shoveling is involved!

73,
Paul W0UC