ARRL 10 GHz and Up Contest - 2022
Call: K1RZ
Operator(s): K1RZ
Station: K1RZ
Class: 10G Plus HP
QTH: FN41ee FM08jl FN00rg
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band Number of Calls Tot Dist(km)
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10G: 59 38102
24G: 3 104
47G: 2 18
75G:
123G:
134G:
241G:
Light: 2 18
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Total: 66 38242 Total Score = 44,842
Club: Mt Airy VHF Radio Club
Team:
Comments:
Round 1. On Monday before the contest Dale AF1T, Mickie W1MKY, Steve K3WHC and
me met on the ferry boat to Block Island FN41ee, and set-up that evening on the
porch on the highest point on the island and started playing Ham Radio on 10
GHz. Tuesday during the day we worked Ray N3RG (CW), Jeff K1TEO (USB), Mike
W3IP (CW & Q65-15C) and Roger W3SZ (Q65-15C) just to be sure every was
working. On Tuesday evening I worked Peter VA3ELE FN03dm on Q65-15C to give
Peter FN41 for his 57th grid on 10GHz using airplane scatter – the computer
did the work. Finished out the evening working John N9ZL FM08us on CW for the
farthest DX of the day. Good activity for a Tuesday I’d say. Hi.
On Saturday we started the contest working Tyler KM3G near his home at FM19ps
for our first contact. Followed by our local beacon Jeff K1TEO, and then Phil
K3TUF and Paul WA3GFZ (both on Penobscot Knob PA) in FN21be. Then to the State
of Maine reps John K1OR and Larry K1CA in FN53fu. Then Roger W3SZ on Q65-15C at
FM19rx (and later on at home QTH FN20AD, also Q65-15C). And then during the
next hour John W3HMS on CW, also at FM19rx. During that hour we worked Tommy
W1AUV FN41oo and John N9ZL FM08us on Hogback Overlook VA at 629 km.
The team of W1FKF, KA1NKD and W1EX at FN43bj from the parking lot below the Mt
Kearsarge NH summit. Followed by Dave K1ZZ and Linda KA1ZD on the school
parking lot at FN42ad. Later on also worked Fred N1DPM and John AA1I at this
same spot. And then the team of Paul W1GHZ and Chip W1AIM at FN34wl.
Followed by Chris KG6CIH on Mt Agamenticus at FN43pf. And later on worked
Leandra AF1R at this same spot. Went on to work Glenn KC0IYT on Mt. Wachusset
FN42bl and Ray VE3FN in FN25dk. All good locations for sure. And then Ron
WZ1V went out on his sidewalk in front of his house on the road lined with trees
and found that the roadway actually was headed directly at Block Island, and Ron
worked us all. Thanks for your good effort on these four contacts Ron. Many
operators were out at all kinds of locations and this made it real fun for all
involved.
Rainscatter. Who better to work for our first RS contacts than Andy K0SM in
FN12ev. I immediately opened the https://rainscatter.com app on the phone and
set up to also work Jim N2JMH FN12bw, Kevin VE3KH FN03cg, Wayne N2WK FN03xe,
Peter VA3ELE FN03dm (operating his home station while out portable) and Hugh
VA3TO FN03cn (at 721 km for best DX of round 1) – all on RS in the next couple
of hours.
Late Saturday evening on the porch the dew was extremely heavy. And Dale said
that other times this has happened when he’d been on Block Island it was a
precursor to a band opening the next morning. And sure enough the K3EJJ/B
north of Baltimore was S9 in the 6 o’clock hour on Sunday morning. We worked
everyone else in Maryland and PA within the first two hours of the day to
include Brian N3OC FM19le, Maurice K3EJJ FM19of, Tyler KM3G FM19rx and Chris
NG3W FN11bo. Thanks to you for getting on before the inversion layer burned
off. And thanks to the many more who conintued to operate through the day on
Sunday. Overall Round 1 was very successful with 88 QSOs, 58 unique calls,
and 27,521 kilometers for 33,321 points.
Round 2. Bill W2RMA, Steve K3WHC and I had talked about operating from Reddish
Knob FM08jl in WV at 4400 ft ASL over the recent years. And we decided to
make the effort to do just that on Saturday. It is an interesting site, and
when we got up there coming up from Harrisburg VA before sunrise, it was a
pleasant morning – shirt sleeve weather, and very little wind. But in trying
to tune of beacons and other relatively local stations we felt like there was a
inversion layer below us in altitude as we were unable to hear these local
stations, and may have to wait until the layering in the atmosphere would burn
off in a few hours. Three hours later I made my first contact with Paul W1GHZ
on Block Island at FN41ee. It was a airplane scatter contact, and each of us
worked Paul, but with the typical slowness of a airplane scatter contact. The
predominant propagation of the day, with very few exceptions were the same –
aircraft scatter, and happy for it. Then I worked Phil K3TUF in FN10we, Chris
NG3W FN11cp and John N9ZL on the next ridge over to the northeast at FM08us –
and also worked John on 24 GHz. Plus we worked Gene WA4PGI FM07as down in the
valley near his home QTH, with Gene using tower bounce off a nearby tower. Then
we three worked Dale AF1T and Mickie W1MKY at FN41ni on Martha’s Vineyard MA
out Gay Head light house, for our Best DX of the contest at 786 km. In the late
afternoon we broke down our WV operation and drove to Bedford PA.
Sunday we got up to Blue Knob Ski Resort FN00rg and set up on another very
pleasant morning in terms of visibility and temperature. We worked W1GHZ again
on Block Island FN41ee. And then we worked N2JMH and VE3KH using tower bounce
off a ski-lift tower about 100 yds away and generally in the direction of WNY
and Toronto. And later, using reflection off the same ski-lift we worked Wayne
N2WK and Peter VA3ELE (Peter operating his Toronto station remotely while
motoring across the north shore of Lake Ontario). Just after local noon we
worked the team of Rus K2UA, Dave K2DH, Tony K8ZR and Mike N2MG on Greylock at
FN32jp at 517 km. We also worked John W3HMS FN10mf, plus Phil K3TUF and Claire
KA3TUF in FN10we. And then the team of Jeff W2FU, Bruce WA2TMC and Chris K2CS
at FN02xu. We finished by working Tyler KM3G in FM19pt.
My final score was 116 QSO’s, 38,242 km, 66 unique calls and 44,842 points.
Thanks to everyone who went out to make this activity more fun for all to enjoy.
Thanks for the QSOs and the tries. 73, Dave K1RZ
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