Hi Ed,
Ironically, I heard you once on 6 meters during all of the back scatter.
Unfortunately, my 100 watts and 2 elements wasn't enough to get through.
Although I think you did hear me calling you at least once. Tough to work
back scatter with a small station.
As far as finding rovers, I can't be of much help as roving in Indiana is a
whole different animal than "east-coast" roving. I don't usually activate a
lot of grids, but I make every effort to work EVERYONE, from each grid.
With the schedules and ham population in the east, I would imagine that
isn't too feasible. In 9 land however, it seems to be too easy. Just not
enough stations out there to work.
Bad weather and family obligations kept me off the air for all but a few
hours of this contest. I ended up with 2 grids activated, and 25 or 30
QSO's.
73
Dan
Dan Evans N9RLA
Scottsburg, IN 47170
{EM78}
IN-Ham list administrator
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Kucharski" <k3dne@adelphia.net>
To: "W4XP" <w4xp@erols.com>; "Vhfcontesting@Contesting. Com"
<vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] January ARRL SS and rovers
> At 02:41 PM 1/21/02 +0000, W4XP wrote:
> >Reflector Mates:
> >
> >The Delmarva VHF and Microwave Society's Grid Pirates Contest Group,
> >K8GP had a good time operating from the Prince William County
> >(Virginia) Landfill, FM18gp. As usual, the Rovers really added
> >significantly to the contest fun; GREAT JOB, and THANK YOU to all
> >those hearty souls!
>
> Chuck,
> Congrats on another great K8GP score! I agree that the rovers add
> to the contest fun and to all of our scores but...
>
> Unfortunately, I didn't have the success with the rovers that K8GP did.
> I had printed out the itineraries of many of the rovers and had them handy
> at my operating table but had a devil of a time finding them (or them
finding
> me). Usually my log is filled with ND3F/R and W3IY/R but this contest I
only
> worked ND3F from one grid (4 qso's) and W3IY from 3 grids (8 qso's).
> Part of the problem for us single-ops is that the rovers don't know where
> to find us.
> Most multi's have run freqs on at least 6 and 2 meters where the rovers
know
> that they can find you - I heard one rover call in on your 2 meter run
freq
> twice and
> get qsy'd to run the bands. As a single-op I do try to establish a 6 and
2
> meter run
> frequency (and a qsy to freq on the higher bands - in my case I used .140)
> but as
> I leave my 6 or 2 meter run freq to "run the bands" with another station
I
> often come back to that freq to find it occupied by another station. Then
> after a little
> S & P I will find a quiet spot to squeeze into to call CQ again. If a
> rover had
> found me on the first run freq and went back to that freq when in a new
> grid they often
> find a different station there. The second problem is that we often don't
> know where
> to find the rovers - even if there is a liaison freq the rovers are seldom
> there
> because they are busy running the bands with other stations.
>
> I'd be interested in what the readers of this reflector do (especially
> single-ops)
> to find rovers and be found by rovers. I attribute much of the increase
in
> my scores
> thru the years to rover activity but have noted that my scores have hit a
> plateau in the
> past couple of years as I have had more trouble finding and being found by
> rovers.
>
> BTW; 624 qso's, 165 grids, 148170 points - single-op, high power, from
FM19.
>
> 73,
> Ed K3DNE
>
>
>
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