[NLRS] W0ZQ/R UHF Contest

[Jon Platt]

Well, that was sure fun.  The weather was outstanding, propagation seemed above average, and there was good fixed and rover station activity.  On Saturday I operated from the St. Charles EN33/34/43/44 grid corner while on Sunday I operated from the EN34/35 line just north on downtown Mpls.   The table below shows the Qs and multipliers by band, with a total of 204 Q's, 50 grids, and a score of 66,900.  It was fun to see 32 Q's on 10 GHz with some of those down to Greg and Wyatt in EN41 and adjacent grids.  5760 was the lonely band this year with just 3 Q's to Gary, W0GHZ.  We tried from the EN33/43 corner but both of us had too much trash to hear each other .... 5760 is fast becoming useless for weak signal work.  On the other hand 902 rocks. Thanks everyone for all the Q's.  I have no doubt that I missed some and that I left some Q's on the table, but as a one-man rover I was always busy.  

This was the 39th annual UHF contest and the last one using this scoring format.  Next years scoring format will be using an accumulative distance based score which was presented/discussed at Central States just a few weeks ago.  You can expect to see a formal announcement from the League for this new UHF contest sometime soon.  

Band-Q's-Grids
.222-37-6
.432-53-10
.902-27-6
.1296-23-5
.2304-20-6
.3456-9-2
.5760-3-1
.10368-32-9
.Total- 204-50
.Score-66,900

73, Jon
W0ZQ/R