[NLRS] ARRL Sept VHF W0ZQ

[w0zq at aol.com]

Band   Q   G
  50  16   7
 144  15   7
 222  13   7
 432  11   6
 902   5   2
1296   6   3
2304   1   1
3456   3   3
Total 70  36

Score 4,644

Soapbox: Had some family issues to deal with that severely limited my time. My apologizes to those that I usually work. The shack was still essentially torn apart from my KSQP and UHF contest efforts so the first task was to re-connect everything.  We had a nasty hail storm go through here a few weeks ago too so I spent some extra time checking out all the antennas.  Good news is that all the antennas, including the loopers, made it through A-OK.  This sort of surprised me a little bit given the amount of hail that we had, I had expected some problems with the 902 and up loopers.  The bad news is that I found out why I was so weak on 2304 during the UHF contest as the transverter is only putting out 2 watts instead of 30 and the receiver seems a bit numb as well.  Oh well, something else to take a look at.  Highlight of the (ever so brief) contest was working N0AKC on 3456 on Saturday, that was fun.  

Thanks for all the rovers being out and about, sorry that I could not join you .... I looked forlornly at my rover rack on Sunday.

73, Jon
W0ZQ