[NLRS] ARRL Sep VHF AC0RA(@AC0RA/R) SO 3Band LP

[Wyatt Dirks]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ogxeeub1x9jzg3u/20190914_125104.jpg?dl=0

The above link is a photo of the rover setup for this contest as SO3B.
Contest summary below.

73 Wyatt
Ac0ra

                    ARRL September VHF Contest - 2019

Call: AC0RA
Operator(s): AC0RA
Station: AC0RA/R

Class: SO 3Band LP
QTH: EN31
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
    6:  109    61
    2:  109    50
  222:   60    28
  432:
  903:
  1.2:
  2.3:
  3.4:
  5.7:
  10G:
  24G:
-------------------
Total:  178   139  Total Score = 46,982

Club:

Comments:

Wanted to try something new for this contest so I decided to take the rover
out,
setup with bigger antennas and operate from one spot to enter in the SO3B
class.
Station was a 7300 for 6m and 9700 for 2m/432. For antennas I used a 6m5 on
6m,
12 element LFA on 2m, and m2 9wl on 432 all about 20 to 25ft up.

The contest started out with a flurry of activity in all directions which
was
good for about 100 qsos in the first 5 hours until I shut down for storms
overhead which delayed the fun for over 3 hours. Missed some qsos there but
not
too many. Plugged away Saturday until about 1am when I shut down for a nap.

Sunday I got back on the air about 4am and started making MS qsos on 6m and
2m.
MS seemed decent but being low power it tough especially on 2m. I heard
lots of
stations I couldn't work either to them not hearing me or not having enough
time
since it took a while to run with most stations. Highlight Sunday morning
was
logging FM19 on 2m ssb at close to 700 miles on some sort of localized
opening.


Throughout the day on Sunday the rate really went down at there was less and
less stations on and even fewer I hadn't worked already. The rovers are what
kept me on as long as I was cause without them the activity was very thin.

A special thanks goes out all the rovers especially N0LNO/r and rover pair
W9FZ/KA9VVQ for the clean sweeps with the bands I had.

Another note is I did work alot of ft8 on both 6m and 2m but not sure of
the qso
breakdown. I heard stations all over the country on 6m ft8 but worked only 2
outside of tropo range. Just not enough power to brute force contacts.
MSk144
was 10 times more productive then FT8. I made zero CW contacts.

Overall had good time trying something different in this contest. See you
in the
next one!

73 Wyatt
AC0RA


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