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
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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
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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
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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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Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu
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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