[NLRS] ARRL 2015 EME Contest (EN35 report )de KA0RYT

[Ronald Bergantzel]

Hello ! I just wanted to share how things went on 144 while operating in the 2015 ARRL EME Contest up here in EN35ct .... Last year I managed a 48 QSO by 30 Multiplier score - this year I managed to work 53 QSOs by 35 Multipliers ( AND NO Asia or Southern Pacific stations - the late common window over there found me going home for breakfast ) . The 2 weekends that the contest occurred on was a mixed bag  , as the first night of the first  weekend here in MN had been stormy ( read - lightening in the state ) , so I only did the 2nd moon-pass on Saturday evening - netting 28 QSOs and 20 Mults ..... The second weekend netted the remaining QSOs and multipliers as the weather was clear . The only Murphy visitations were caused by my upgrading MAP65 and having lost  several hours trying to get the I/Q outputs of several SDR software to cooperate with the MAP65 - I ended up just using WSJT 10 .....   
SO , using the same single yagi ( modified 17B2 with full az / elevation  ) , 1.5kw from the GS35 and ran by my modified TS2000X the following multiplier callsign prefixes were worked : HB9 , HA1 , DL ,RN , UX ,LZ , I2 , LU1 , SP4 , K6 , NT0 , KB8 , EA1 , YO3 , W3 , K3 , NJ2 , W5 , W0 , FG4 , OH2 , K7 , K5 , OE6 , K1 , FR/DL1 , F6 , CX2 , OK1 , K9 , YU7 , PA5 , YL , EA8 , N0 . These all were either different states or different countries .....
On the same token , I would like to comment there was little local activity noticed - W0XG , NT0V, ND0B, N0IRS and myself . I also want to share that I did complete QSOs with all of them (except ND0B - I seen his traces but did not decode him ). Now how did I work W0XG in EN34 - well I took 4 screenshots of the actual QSO , showing that it was EME NOT TROPO , EVEN THOUGH YOU CAN SEE HIS SIGNAL both ways ( I narrowed the JT65 bandwith to 50 cycles ) Now , just a quick thought - back in the 432 EME days I had heard many times our old friend  WB0GGM (SK ) but never really tried because his tropo sig always made it too difficult and there was no provable way of the actual EME QSO . Now , with JT65 , I can prove that Eric and I did complete via EME - Just a jab at the old "CW only"  dinosaurs .. If anyone cares to see the 4 screenshots of that QSO just ask off the reflector -  
73s and Merry Xmas !!!   Ron Bergantzel  KA0RYT EN35ct