[NLRS] FZ/VVQ Aug 10g Weekend recap

[Dave Fugleberg]

If you had a sculpture like that one, you wouldn’t need to set up multiple
times in each location… :)

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 3:39 PM Bruce Richardson <w9fz at w9fz.com> wrote:

> We had two hard days of playing radio!  What a great way to see Wisconsin!
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> I've whipped up graphics of the two days activity for us. When I combined
> them into one graphic, it was difficult to see much detail.
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> https://w9fz.com/hamtrips/images/2021aug10g/2021AugmicrogridmasterSat.jpg
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> https://w9fz.com/hamtrips/images/2021aug10g/2021AugmicrogridmasterSun.jpg
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> Saturday started with light rain. We were able to set-up and not get too
> wet. We were ready early for the planned 7:30am start time. I cq'd (in the
> blind-just throwing RF around) into a mass of rain southeast of us near
> Madison, WI.  When I unkeyed, Zack, W9SZ replied from EN50rl (387km
> away).
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> In every subgrid, we had to set-up two and three times in order to work the
> directions we needed.  That's a good problem that there were operators
> within range in so many different directions.  On Saturday, we worked from
> basically four subgrids but had to set-up 8-10 times to accomplish that.
> Sunday had at least nine set-ups.
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> It was nice to work all of our friends who we've come to know in this hobby
> and hear their voices or their fists.  We were glad to hear that WA9TT,
> AA9IL and KB8U had relatively new 10giggers with them (K9JCZ, K9TMS, and
> ??).  While we were only successful contacting K9TMS, mentoring new
> stations
> is essential for the future of 10G contesting. Rick, N9NYA, visited us at
> our first spot on Saturday and hopefully he will jump off the cliff into 10
> giggin'.  Further, with WA9TT, KA9VDU, WD9BGA, N9EM, and N9LB now QRV on
> 10g
> in Wisconsin, one can stay busy working Wisconsin operators!  So a
> challenge
> for all of us is to bring along mentees on our future events.
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> We enjoyed working and coordinating with other rovers like W0ZQ/WB0LJC,
> KA9VDU, and WA9TT.  More Q's equals more fun!
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> On Saturday, while heading back to the cabin, we came across a sculpture
> called "Ex-Communication" on Hwy 56/82 just east of Viroqua, WI.  We think
> 10G operators can get a chuckle out of it.
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> https://w9fz.com/hamtrips/images/2021aug10g/10gsculpture.JPG
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> On Sunday, Russ, KB8U contacted us by phone to let us know that he was on
> the east shore of Lake Michigan and available to run.  We are so glad he
> did!  We completed with him from three different locations.  The first
> time,
> we were at a fabulous location called EN43wb just north of Gov Dodge State
> Park (on Hwy ZZ).  The only problem was the Microwave tower site there
> kinda
> blocked the view towards Russ. We tried anyway and we were successful.
> (photo here:  https://w9fz.com/hamtrips/images/2021aug10g/kb8u_1_1.JPG  )
> In our next two contacts with Russ, that continued to push the distance, we
> had pretty good horizons in his direction.
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> We finished up Sunday evening from an outstanding location just west of
> Fennimore, WI called EN42px.  From there we worked W0GHZ and, with some
> rain
> enhancement, K0AWU.
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> We each made 78 QSOs and don't know our score yet (and don't really care).
> The fun each day was the payoff.
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> 73
>
> Bruce W9FZ and Janice KA9VVQ
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