[NLRS] N9LB January VHF Results

[Lloyd Berg - N9LB]

Operated single Op, Low Power from the home QTH in EN52 10 miles south of
Madison, WI.

Best overall DX was KM8U 210 miles ( first 70 minutes )
Best 902 DX was with KU8Y 170.9 miles ( first 70 minutes )
Best 1296 DX was with KU8Y 170.9 miles ( first 70 minutes )
Didn't hear anything East of me after that.

After the first 70 minutes, conditions were worse than flat.  With the
contacts I did make, I frequently encountered deep QSB.

Never heard Paul W0UC or anyone else North, NE or NW, excepting N9DG and
WB9LYH.  Didn’t hear or work much to the South of me either.  My CQ Tests in
those directions went unanswered.

An additional problem is that a wideband noise source has appeared NW of my
house, believe a neighbor has some new electronic device, it is always on
day and night so probably a switching wall-wart.  Raised my noise floor in
that direction by 25 or 30 db as read on the panoramic display on my
FLEX-5000 SDR rig from 160 meters thru VHF.

Never heard Janice and Bruce at their Saturday grid corners, but worked them
in all four grid corners on Sunday ( all in a W-SW direction from me ).

Nice all-4-corner sweeps with KA9VVQ/R, W9FZ/R, and KC0SKM/R.

Also caught AC0RA/R in EN32 right at the end that put me right at 100 QSOs.

Special thanks to all the rovers - you all made the contest worth while!

Band   QSOs    Pts      Grd
    50     23         23          9
  144     28         28        12
  222     18         36          8
  420     21         42          9
  902       3         12          3
1240       7         28          6
Total   100       169        47

Score : 7,943

Logs uploaded to LOTW

73

Lloyd - N9LB