[NLRS] The 2013 August UHF Contest

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

On 11/27/2013 11:01 PM, tosca005 at umn.edu wrote:
> On Nov 27 2013, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Midwest division winner SOLP had a score of 18. That's not activity
>> that inspires one to build a super station for UHF operation. It might
>> be more effective to build a simple tri band rover and wander
>> someplace where there are stations on the air during the UHF contest.
>>
> Gerry:
>
> Midwest division winner in SOLP class was N0KP with a score of 8,364,
> followed in second place by yours truly with a score of 3,933. Not sure
> where you got the information that the SOLP winner had a score of 18. ???
>
That was Midwest REGION, and KP was in the Dakota DIVISION, but W0VAN 
took the Midwest DIVISION (Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, etc) with 18 points. 
That's maybe 1 contact per band over to K2DRH at the quad cities who 
took the nation again.
>>
>> My activity is reduced to zero since they took my entry of 1 Q and 1
>> grid and made it -1 because the station I worked didn't show me
>> correctly in his log.

Or the transcriber couldn't read my hand written log entry.
>>
> Boy, that really bites.

So bad that I haven't turned on a rig for UHF contest since.
A couple years ago I won Iowa Section single band on 2m with about 150 
2m points, and about 15,000 6m points which was beat by others on 6m. 
Down here near the Boondocks VHF and up contesting locally can be 
difficult without the monster arrays up high at the opposite end of 
1-1/8" heliax.
>
> W0JT/5
>

73, Jerry, K0CQ