[NLRS] June VHF W0ZF/R

[Dave Fugleberg]

Had a typo in the score summary- corrected below

        Band   Mode  QSOs     Pts  Grd  Pt/Q
          50  CW       1       1    0   1.0
          50  FT8      6       6    6   1.0
          50  MSK1     3       3    3   1.0
          50  USB     75      75   40   1.0
         144  CW       6       6    1   1.0
         144  FM       1       1    1   1.0
         144  USB     16      16    5   1.0
         222  FM      12      24    4   2.0
         420  CW       1       2    1   2.0
         420  USB     14      28    5   2.0
         902  FM      12      36    4   3.0
        1240  USB     12      36    4   3.0
       Total  Both   159     234   74   1.5

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 7:32 PM Dave Fugleberg <dave.w0zf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Was good to get out in the rover again. First rove with the new truck, so
> a few items had to be changed.
> On the bright side, most everything worked pretty well, and the weather
> was good. Kinda windy,but that keeps the bugs away.
>
> On the bad side, the TE Systems amp for 2 meters developed some serious
> issues, and was basically unusable.  Ended up shutting it off and going
> barefoot out of the transverter (around 4 watts).  Thanks to those who
> worked me on 2m - you did all the heavy lifting.
>
> I also managed to bust the connector off of my USB extender cable right
> where it goes into the laptop.  Was able to move the external sound
> card/USB hub combo close enough to plug its USB pigtail directly into the
> laptop so I could keep going.
>
> I met up with K0BBC/R at the start of the contest and ran a couple of
> corners with him. We had FM HTs for 222 and 902, so those additional
> contacts helped boost the score a bit.  Thanks Matt for the place to stay
> in SD Saturday night and for being the other half of the rover pack.
>
> About half of my contacts were 6m USB, which was fun - I was afraid
> everyone would be on FT8, but an opening on Saturday evening and a lot of
> Es on Sunday got the people out on SSB and CW.  The P3 looked like a 20m
> contest at times.  I was able to fill a promised meteor scatter sked early
> Sunday morning from EN14, and made a couple more MSK144 contacts as well -
> Thanks Jim for your coaching to help me figure out what settings I had
> wrong at 0530 local Sunday to make that happen.
>
> I don't usually rove solo, so that was a big adjustment. The operating
> position is in the back seat of a crew cab, so no ops while driving. That,
> coupled with using the truck as a rotor, means a LOT of jumping in and out
> of the vehicle to switch between the driving and operating seats.  I might
> need to come up with a better arrangement.
>
> I hated to stop on Sunday evening when 6m was still cooking, but wanted to
> get home at a reasonable hour, so headed home and made a few Qs for my last
> grid in the driveway.
>
>         Band   Mode  QSOs     Pts  Grd  Pt/Q
>           14  CW       1       1    1   1.0
>           50  CW       1       1    0   1.0
>           50  FT8      6       6    6   1.0
>           50  MSK1     3       3    3   1.0
>           50  USB     75      75   40   1.0
>          144  CW       5       5    1   1.0
>          144  FM       1       1    1   1.0
>          144  USB     16      16    5   1.0
>          222  FM      12      24    4   2.0
>          420  CW       1       2    1   2.0
>          420  USB     14      28    5   2.0
>          902  FM      12      36    4   3.0
>         1240  USB     12      36    4   3.0
>        Total  Both   159     234   75   1.5
>
> Claimed Score - 17,550
> 73 de W0ZF
>