[NLRS] 10GHz, 2nd weekend: W0ZQ

[Jon Platt]

For the second weekend of the accumulative contest I operated with the rover pack which consisted of WB0LJC, KA9VVQ, W9FZ and myself.  On Saturday we started in far SE MN (EN43bm), made 8 stops through the day, with our overnight stop in Oelwein, IA.  For most of the day we fought light rain, sometimes a little heavier, and with the exception of rain scatter some pretty bad tropo conditions.  We did kept plenty busy working K0AWU, W0GHZ, N0UK/K0HAC, and a group of op's at K0KFC's QTH (EN35rj) from each of our stops.   My best DX happened late in the day where we worked K0AWU on rain scatter at 485 km.  Signals were good enough for S7 FM.  Saturday night we had an excellent Italian dinner at Leo's.   Sunday morning we were back at it again, once again combating light rain for most of the day.  We made one stop east of Oelwein where we worked the fixed groups at around 300km.  Tropo conditions were very average (at best) but at times we had rain scatter enhancement as there was plenty of rain between us at times.  We also worked W9ZIH and N9LB this morning.  We then moved west of Oelwein then started our way back home coming north on Hwy 63.  We made a total of 10 stops on Sunday.   We ended the day in far southern MN, EN33RQ, where the skies opened up on us and we made the decision to call it quits.    I did submit my log electronically (http://contests.arrl.org/arrl10gscoresubmission.php) and it provided me with the following report: Category:  10G Only257 Q's21 uniques67,776 distance pointsBest DX = 485kmRaw Score = 69,876 A tip of the hat to those 21 unique calls for getting on and playing some uW's.   73, JonW0ZQ