[NLRS] CQWW VHF AC0RA/R Rover HP

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

With the small distance to rover antennas without a 40' tower, I'd be 
concerned that the RF exposure is unhealthy with KW amplifiers.

Were the roves in Iowa and near Iowa? I didn't turn a rig on during the 
contest, not being a fan of CQ magazine.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 7/23/2018 9:06 PM, Jon Platt via NLRS wrote:
>
>
>
> Nice job Wyatt.  KW rovers, yeah!
>
> Looking forward to hearing some war stories !
>
> 73, Jon
> W0ZQ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wyatt Dirks<dirkswyatt10 at gmail.com>
> To: nlrs<nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Mon, Jul 23, 2018 8:38 pm
> Subject: [NLRS] CQWW VHF AC0RA/R Rover HP
>
>
>
>                      CQ Worldwide VHF Contest
>
> Call: AC0RA/R
> Operator(s): AC0RA KG5CCI
> Station: AC0RA/R
>
> Class: Rover HP
> QTH:
> Operating Time (hrs): 26.25
>
> Summary:
>   Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>      6:  606   350
>    2:   81    68
> -------------------
> Total:  687   418  Total Score = 321,442
>
> Club:
>
> Comments:
>
> Conditions for the contest were great on 6m overall. Saturday 6m opening
> seemed
> very wide spread but not many qsos to be had. Sunday when the band opened my
> best run was 190 qsos in 1 hour and 6 minutes reaching well over 200 rate
> for a
> while within that hour. 2m had no enhancement that I noticed and pretty low
> activity.
>
> Digi qso totals
>
> 36 on 6m msk144
> 25 on 6m ft8
> 17 on 2m msk144
>
> Using /r in wsjtx is a major issue. We attempted many many more ft8 qsos on
> 6m
> but couldn't complete do to /r. The contest mode issue is minor compared to
> the
> /r problem. Interestingly enough we had zero problems with contest mode or
> using
> /r on msk144. Obviously this is because guys working msk144 have a clue.
>
> The rover consisted of 5 element 6m yagi at 20ft and 7 element 2m yagi at
> 18ft.
> as well as a 3 element 6m yagi at 12ft and 3 element 2m yagi at 10ft. The
> smaller yagis were going to be used for in motion ops but we more less gave
> up
> because ft8 was the only activity and it was far to frustrating to work ft8.
> Used an IC7300 for 6m and an IC910 for 2m with kw amps on each band. Lots
> and
> lots of improvements need to be made with the rover before next years
> contest.
>
> Also would like to note I didn't sleep the entire contest. I was either
> driving
> or operating. Dave slept a little bit while I driving but not much. Our goal
> going into contest was to give it our best effort to break record which is
> about
> 220k. We did go qrt with 45 minutes left of the contest when KC0SKM/r
> pulled up
> and we talked till the end of contest.
>
> I'd like to thanks everyone for the qsos and especially Dave, KG5CCI for
> joining
> me for this truly amazing contest.
>
> 73 Wyatt
> AC0RA
>
>
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