[NLRS] Contest Summary de KA0RYT

[Ronald Bergantzel via NLRS]

Hello All !! Well , it was a pretty decent contest this year !! I ended up with 17390 total points this year  , which is a personal best . The breakdown is : 6m - 67 QSO X 49 Grids , 2m - 76 QSOs X 35 Grids , 432 - 12 QSOs x 6 Grids AND 1.2G - 6 QSOs x 4 Grids . It was really good to hear and work all the activity and especially the rovers ! ( Many Thanks to K0KUK/R and AC0RA/R and KC0P/R !!! ) Highlights of the contest include = working 2m tropo from EN10  to DN94  to EN19 ( tnx Barry ! ). Also working 144 EME on Moonrise to KB8RQ and K5QE ( too much rainstatic to complete QSO w / Joel; W5ZN in EM45 though )  .... Last highlight I will mention is working 144 Es to W4ZRZ in EM63 ( I received an e-mail from N0IRS in Mo stating he heard and recorded it via Es 'backscatter' - DID ANYONE ELSE WORK ANY 144 Sporadic E ?? )... The low points of the contest were losing around 4 + hours due to storms here during 'prime' tropo window hours and having 'MURPHY'
 visit the 1.2g system causing  my NOT having a working rotor - I had to climb 50+ft up and manually 'rotate' the looper ..... Am looking forward to participating in the CQ WWW VHF Contest and the ARRL UHF and ARRL Sept Contests .... 
73s !  Ron Bergantzel KA0RYT  EN35ct