[NLRS] ARRL June VHF W0ZQ/R Rover LP

[Jon Platt]

Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:  88    36
    2:  46    10
  222:  39    6
  432:  39    7
  903:  22    4
  1.2:  27    5
  5.7:    4    1
  10G:  11    2-------------------
Total:  276    78  Total Score = 38,766 I activated the St. Charles grid corner on Saturday and the Winsted grid corner on Sunday.  Weather was good on Saturday, albeit the Sun was a little intense.  Being the June VHF contest (aka, the 6m contest), I decide to leave 2.3 and 3.4 GHz at home and instead took along the lap top to try some FT8 from the car/rover.   No GPS for WSJT timing, but I found that I could set my laptop time manually via WWV and be within a half of a second which works for FT8.  I'm not exactly enamored with the mode, but it did provide some nice multipliers.  One issue with it as a single-op rover is that its just too time consuming, but on the other hand it does provide some nice mult's.   Sunday was indeed a different day.  Temperature was 62 degrees with the wind starting out at a brisk 15mph out of the northwest.  I'm glad that I threw my light jacket in the car; I almost didn't because it was so warm on Saturday.  By the afternoon the wind had really increased .... I think it was sustained at 30mph.  At what wind speed do the power lines begin to whistle .... that was the sustain wind speed.  Also, it seemed that the wind was causing static (?) as I had high noise on nearly all bands and hearing became difficult.  It was at that time that the decision was made to throw in the towel and head for home.    Thanks to W0GHZ, K0AWU, K2DRH, W0UC, N0AKC, KC0P/R, N0HZO/R, K0SIX and many others for all the Q's.  Fun to work WD0T in DN94 and K2DRH in EN41.  73, JonW0ZQ/R