[NLRS] The 2013 August UHF Contest

[Ronald Bergantzel]

Hello and Happy Thanksgiving !!! Well , Gerald , we all get out of contesting from what we put into it .... Be it the June VHF contest , or the 10GHZ contest participation up on Lake Superior , or the EME contest or ??? There have been many years that I personally did NOT submit logs mainly because of unmentioned rule changes and whatever .... I now feel that I want to do differently , even though I dont have the 1 5/8 heliax or multiple yagi monster arrays or whatever . I just work the contests for the enjoyment of my amateur license as well as enjoyment of the homebrew stuff that I have built . Thanks , Gerry for sharing your views on this , and as always , I look forward to your contacts !! Best 73s to All !! Ron KA0RYT   
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On Thu, 11/28/13, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson <geraldj at netins.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [NLRS] The 2013 August UHF Contest
 To: tosca005 at umn.edu
 Cc: nlrs at mailman.qth.net
 Date: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 10:08 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 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
 
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