[NLRS] W0ZQ/R June prelim

[Jon Platt]

Just a short preliminary report for now with a longer summary in a few days.  I did an easy and relaxing EN23/33/34 rove on Saturday and a EN35/25/24 rove on Sunday.  I slept in and got home early on both days to enjoy the evening with the XYL.  I am getting lazy in my old age!
 
I have about 300 Q's in the log on 6m through 10 GHz.  I think 5760 was the only band where I worked just one station, W0GHZ.  The good news is that all the bands performed great except 2m.  I had some fun 10 GHz Q's to the FZ/VVQ rovers, AWU in EN37, GHZ in EN34, and AC0RA/R.  The RS Q from the hole in EN24 to AWU at the end was fun as we had tried the direct path earlier with no luck.  

The bad news is that my 2m front end was deaf, probably blew the front end.  My apologies to those who may have been responding to me on 2m .... I just could not hear.  2m is THE band, especially for rovers, so I have no doubt that hurt my casual score.  I suspect that my newly designed 2m/222 yagi couples too much 222 RF into the 2M antenna, tbd.  I was as deaf as a box of rocks on 2m.  

I am seeing some great scores coming in, keep posting them. It was a fun contest from 6 through the uW bands, something a bit unusual as in the past, when 6m was so open as it was this weekend, the uW activity drops off.   Perhaps the new rule change to allow self spotting helped stations identify new uW opportunities as they were making 6m Q's.  The new posting system and self spotting seemed to worked well and it gets a two thumbs up from this rover.

73, Jon
W0ZQ/R
 
 
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