[NLRS] W9HQ/R was a bust for 222 Sprint

[Zack Widup]

Wish I could've made it. I'm moving across town. So busy I will probably
miss all of the Sprints. :-(

73, Zack W9SZ


On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:55 AM, David Palm <thepalmhq at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> I got to the St. Charles grid convergence last night in perfect time to get
> everything in place.  Started CQing right at 7:00 pm from EN33 as planned
> and heard nothing.  I CQed for a while, turning the antenna and still
> nothing.
>
> I began to suspect that I had some hardware problem.  I checked all the
> antenna connections and everything seemed fine.  The transverter was
> showing power output on its display.  But I was not hearing increased
> background noise when cycling power to the 'verter.  So I figured something
> was wrong.  About 7:30 I packed it up, checked out the rest of the grids at
> that convergence for another day, and headed for home.
>
> Oh well, I tried.
>
> Seems like interest in this sprint was pretty low. But it sounded like
> there was more interest for the 432 sprint next week. I'm planning on being
> on that air from the home QTH for that one -- hope there are still some
> rovers going out.
>
> 73,
>
> David  W9HQ, non-rover again
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