Here's a score from the June VHF Contest:
N6MU + N6NB (@N6NB) - 258,930 - 816 - 270 - ABCDE
Band QSOs Grid Squares
50 537 189
144 155 28
222 37 19
432 68 22
1296 19 12
A few observations:
At 2230z Sunday, in the middle of a spectacular E-skip
opening, the unthinkable happened: we had a catastrophic
computer crash. Our data files were corrupted and could not
be restored--during the contest, anyway. We hand-logged the
remainder of the contest (with no way to check for earlier
dupes) and ran the whole time; there was no way we could
search and pounce. Then we spent 12 post-contest hours on
a laborious reconstruction of the data files, disk sector
by sector. That was more trouble than doing a complex
federal tax return, and only a little less frustrating.
This really overshadowed an otherwise good contest, with
E-skip all day Sunday. What we did was really a multioperator,
single-transmitter effort (although that category doesn't exist
in VHF contests). We made all of three QSOs on any band other
than six meters during the last 10 hours of the contest because
there were too many QSOs and multipliers to be had on six.
That's too bad, because there was also some E-skip on two.
Maybe it's time to separate the bands and antennas--and think
multi-multi.
-Wayne, N6NB
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