[NLRS] ARRL 222 and up Distance - W0ZF/R

[Dave Fugleberg]

Saturday afternoon only, about 6.5 hours.
Bill (AE0EE/R) and I went out as a two-rover "pack" (Team UHF Da!),
circling the grid corner at EN24/EN25/EN35/EN34.  The majority of our
contacts were with each other, as we made nearly every combination of 4
grids on 3 bands (222/432/1296).   Obviously, this gets a lot of Qs but not
a lot of points, since the distances are short.

I did have a handful of QSOs with W0UC including at least one on each band,
which greatly helped in the distance points department (thanks Paul!). We
also made a heroic effort on CW with K0AWU- sigs started out good, but
completely tanked before he was able to copy my grid. Thanks for hanging in
there with me Bill, and sorry I had to pull the plug before we could try
again later.

Overall, a good shakedown for the new (to me) 1296 transverter and my
rebuilt rover equipment rack.  A fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
Will definitely try some different operating strategies next time to boost
the distance scores.

50 total contacts,claimed score 1,666 (according to N3FJP calculations,
anyhow)

 Total Contacts by Band and Mode:

 Band       CW   Phone     Dig   Total       %
 ----       --   -----     ---   -----     ---
 1.25        0      17       0      17      34
   70        0      18       0      18      36
   23        1      14       0      15      30
            --   -----     ---   -----     ---
 Total       1      49       0      50     100