[NLRS] The 2013 August UHF Contest

[Zack Widup]

That contest was an experiment for me. I entered as a Rover. I was not
a true Rover; more like a portable station set up in two different
grid squares on two consecutive days. But I had a lot of fun. It was
also an adventure. Murphy hit me hard that weekend, particularly on
Sunday.

73, Zack W9SZ

On 11/22/13, w0zq at aol.com <w0zq at aol.com> wrote:
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> Hello NLRS land -
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> The ARRL 2013 UHF Contest results are out on the Leagues website.  Check out
> http://www.arrl.org/files/file/ContestResults/2013/2013-ARRL-UHF-Contest-Results-Web.pdf
> .
>
> A tip of the hat to John, K9JK/R, for an excellent extended article
> write-up.  Contest authors spend a lot of time creating these articles that
> we enjoy so much so make sure that you tell John (and all the other contest
> authors!) "thanks!" next time you see them.
>
> For 2013, logs were down a little bit compared to 2012; 156 logs versus 171
> logs.  Of interest, 20% of all logs were rover logs.   Think about that.
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> I can tell you that activity locally was pretty good even though band
> conditions were a sub-par on Saturday and about average on Sunday.  The
> Upper Midwest; Minnesota through Wisconsin and into Illinois/Iowa, continues
> to be one of the hot beds for this fun 24 hour operating event.
>
> Looking nationally, in the single-op low power category N9LB finished 7th,
> N9DG 9th, N0KP 10th (Dakota Div winner), and W0JT 11th.  In the single-op
> high power category W0GHZ finished in 4th (Dakota Div winner) and W0UC 5th.
> In the Multi-op category, the Winona club using their call W0NE finished in
> 2nd (Dakota Div winner) while N0AKC finished in 3rd.  In the Rover category,
> W0ZQ/R finished in 5th (Dakota Div winner) behind all the California guys,
> KC0P/R finished 9th, and his better half N0HZO/R finished in 10th.   In the
> Limited Rover category we saw the dynamic duo of K0PG/R and K9ILT/R finish
> in 2nd and 3rd, K9JK/R 4th, and the family of KC9JTL/R and W9HQ/R finish 5th
> and 6th.  A fine job by all and a great showing for our collective region.
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> Club wise, NLRS submitted the most logs (18) with Badger Contesters
> submitting the second highest number (14).  Between the two clubs that's 32
> of the 156 logs nationally.  Lets see if we can keep that going!  Score
> wise, NLRS finished in 2nd with the club competition gavel going to the
> California guys who submitted less than half of our logs (7) but generated
> nearly five times our club score.   A tip of the hat to all NLRS club
> members who submitted a log !
>
> Next years contest is August 2 & 3.  With Christmas just ahead of us, what a
> great time for Santa to bring you that new 222 or 902 transverter.   W0ZQ/R
> plans to be out and about in what is one of my favorite operating events.
> Hope to see you on the bands.
>
> 73, Jon
> W0ZQ
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