Last updated: 2010.01.25
2010.01.25
What a contest! Wow. So many new people on vhf, it was almost shocking. Alisha
came along and operated on Saturday. N0LP/R and I continued on Sunday out to the
eastern grid congruences. The weather was perfect. Cold and windy, but clear and dry.
The only band I had issues with was 10G. All the rest performed great. Thanks to AC0GI
for loaning us a 1.2G HT! Alisha had a blast and got to talk to many new friends. She is
ready to go again! I'm pretty sure that W0EEA,KR0VER and N0LP will all have placed and/or
set division/section records.
2010.01.11
The pathfinder was involved in a fender bender on I-225 last week. I've patched
it back up, but the event was a bit scarry. I don't expect it will curb conesting
activity, but it did take a bite out of prep I was planning on doing this past
weekend. The batteries are all on chargers at this point and I'm cleaning out
the car and arranging all the gear in the garage for easy loadout.
2010.01.06
The rover gather was a blast. Joe, Lou, Nick and I chatted about roving till we
we were tired and I think we've got some good planning in place for the January
Contest.
2009.12.18
Plans firming up. A rover gather is on the calendar for January 5th
@5:30pm at the lonetree hacienda. Several of the Colorado Rovers will meet
to firm up roving plans for January. If we all end up roving, it will be
the largest number of rovers in the Metro in at least 5 years.
2009.09.21
Planning begins. To rover or not to rove? That is the question. Now that I
have the rover built up 4x4 vehicle that doesn't involve borrowing from
the kidwaggon, it may be possible to rove in January. Much will depend on
the weather and I doubt it will be a two day trip. Still some very low
hanging fruit is avaliable in the certificate field for January scores. It
may be possible to score a cert without a huge effort. I'm going to see if
we can collect a few rovers to get active and drum up some extra activity.
Band Power Mode Gear Antenna 50 100w ssb FT-857 ku4ab loop at 11ft 144 100w ssb I-910H Directive Systems DS144-6RS 220 25w FM Alinco 235 vert rover calling freq 220 50w ssb Elecraft xverter & Amp Directive Systems DSFO222-10RS 440 75w ssb I-910H Directive Systems DSFO432-15RS 900 10w ssb ssbusa xverter Directive Systems 3311LY 1.2 10w ssb I-910H Directive Systems 2314LYRM 2.4 1w ssb demi xverter Directive Systems 1321LYRM 3.4 1w ssb demi xverter 1215LYRM loop yagi 5.7 1w ssb demi xverter feedhorn 10g 200mw ssb khune xverter feedhorn
RoverLog QSOs by Activated Grid: Grid QSOs Grid QSOs Grid QSOs DM78 26 DM88 26 DM79 28 DN70 42 DN80 29 DM89 30 DN71 35 RoverLog Score Summary, Using new rules: Band QSOs Value QSOPts Mults 50 34 1 34 7 144 59 1 59 11 222 30 2 60 7 432 49 2 98 8 902 6 4 24 1 1.2G 25 4 100 7 2.3G 6 8 48 1 3.4G 4 8 32 1 5.7G 3 8 24 1 10G 0 8 0 0 Grids activated: 7 Totals: 216 479 51