[NLRS] The 2013 August UHF Contest

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

WE can put a lot of time and effort into a contest but if there are few 
participants in working range or propagation is poor, we still can't 
make a dent. If and when I get antennas up much higher than on the house 
roof and fed with adequate coax I will participate. At that point maybe 
I can be heard north of the cities over the background of the near 
underground cities stations that can't hear me presently. I have more 
power to feed the antennas too.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 11/28/2013 12:12 PM, Ronald Bergantzel wrote:
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> 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:
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>   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
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>   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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