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Subject: [VHFcontesting] ARRL Sep VHF N5XU M/L EM10
From: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth E. Harker)
Date: Thu Jun 19 16:43:51 2003
   ARRL September VHF QSO Party

    Contest Dates : 08-Sep-01, 09-Sep-01, 10-Sep-01
    Callsign Used : N5XU
        Operators : W5JLP, KB5LBN, KM5TY, WM5R
         Category : Multi-operator, Limited
 Default Exchange : EM10
             Name : University of Texas Amateur Radio Club
          Section : South Texas (STX)
          Country : United States


   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Mults   
 __________________________________________________

    6SSB      36          36         37      10 
    2CW        1           1          1       0 
    2SSB      58          57         58      17 
  222SSB      12          12         22       9 
  432SSB      24          24         46       9 
 __________________________________________________

 Totals      131         130        164      45 


    Final Score = 7,380 points.


 50MHz: Yaesu FT-847
        Cushcraft 50S3 @ 100', rotatable
        Force 12 EF-606 @ 75', fixed NE
144MHz: Yaesu FT-726R
        AM-6155, 400 watts out
        Cushcraft 13B2 @ 94', rotatable
222MHz: Realistic HTX 100 + DEMI 222-28CK
        AM-6155, 400 watts out
        Cushcraft 13-element @ 98', rotatable
432MHz: Yaesu FT-726R
        Tokyo Hy-Power HL-60U, 60 watts out
        Directive Systems K1FO32 @ 96', rotatable
TR Log 6.59
W9XT DVK
Realistic Pro-50MX headset
Super CMOS Keyer III
Bencher paddles

     The contest was pretty dull, frankly.  We perceived no enhanced 
propagation conditions at any point during the contest.  We worked only 
one station outside of the state on six meters, and that was pretty clearly
on a random meteor burn.  Conditions were especially bad Sunday morning,
with S9 static crashes from the rain and literally no new stations on the 
air for a three hour period.  Activity from both San Antonio and Houston
(especially Houston) was below average.  Activity from Dallas was average 
with the past couple of years, but still below where it was three to four 
years ago.  This was the first year in a while that we have had a zero
hour on Saturday.

     We had been planning to get on 1296 MHz as well, but there's something 
not right in the receive side of things - either in the transverter or the 
preamp (both of which are in a box at the top of the tower) so we were 
unable to get on that band during the contest.  All of our other equipment
performed well during the entire length of the contest.

     Unfortunately, there was only one serious rover effort in the state this
contest and one other rover who just happened to be driving home that weekend.
More rovers would have made the contest more fun, but it seems like rover 
activity in Texas is in gradual decline.


2001 ARRL September VHF QSO Party - N5XU


  HOUR    6SSB    2CW     2SSB  222SSB  432SSB   TOTAL   ACCUM
  ----  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------   -----   -----
   18       5       0       8       5       4      22      22
   19       3       0       7       0       4      14      36
   20       2       0       4       0       1       7      43
   21       3       1       0       0       0       4      47
   22       1       0       4       0       1       6      53
   23       3       0       1       0       1       5      58

    0       0       0       0       0       0       0      58
    1       0       0       3       0       0       3      61
    2       1       0       5       1       0       7      68
    3       0       0       1       1       1       3      71
    4       5       0       2       0       1       8      79
    5       0       0       0       0       0       0      79
    6       0       0       0       0       0       0      79
    7       0       0       0       0       0       0      79
    8       0       0       0       0       0       0      79
    9       0       0       0       0       0       0      79
   10       0       0       0       0       0       0      79
   11       0       0       0       0       0       0      79
   12       0       0       0       0       0       0      79
   13       1       0       1       0       0       2      81
   14       0       0       0       0       0       0      81
   15       0       0       1       0       0       1      82
   16       0       0       0       0       0       0      82
   17       0       0       0       0       0       0      82
   18       2       0       2       0       2       6      88
   19       0       0       0       0       0       0      88
   20       0       0       2       1       1       4      92
   21       2       0       4       0       1       7      99
   22       0       0       2       0       1       3     102
   23       1       0       5       3       3      12     114

    0       2       0       1       0       0       3     117
    1       4       0       2       1       3      10     127
    2       1       0       2       0       0       3     130

  TOTAL    36       1      57      12      24


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University of Texas at Austin                   Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R
Department of the Computer Sciences         President, UT Amateur Radio Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124                         Maintainer of Linux on Laptops
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA            http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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