NAHSMS 2007 Spring Contest
S O A P B O X

 

Well my good effort I had planned turned out to be not much at all. just couldnt fight the
power noise. But thank goodness they fixed a really bad one to my west, that direction is
not almost perfectly quite. Now if I can get one to North and 1 to South east fixed will
be in great shape. Any way here is my pitful log.
thanks and 73 Ira  K4YMQ

Just for a check ... only worked (3)
DaveN8OC

Hi Tip,   I had a problem with my log and lost the last month of entries so I have no results
to send.  I do remember some of the calls off the top of my head though.   N5SIX/M in 5
or 6 grids? WA5UFH K9MRI AB3BK K8ROX and the rest slip my mind.  Total I had
around 20 QSO's all on 6M.  2M was bad, couldn't complete even when QSY'ing from a
6M QSO with a few.  
Justin N5BO

Tip,   I worked KM5PO. He was the only one I heard answer my CQ's. I did get a few
partial responses, but never enough to be sure who they were. Might possibly have been
you! Seems like I thought you may have been in there, as well as W5UWB. I tried to get
WB2FKO to sked me (1334 mi), but he was leaving for the east coast and didn't have
much time. Heard no one to the east. I never heard anyone else call CQ either.   I was
thinking -- possibly work 2m from 1200 to 1300Z or something like that. This would be
instead of having totally separate contests. This might encourage more 2m operation
(might not either). Just some thoughts on it. I really like the idea of the random contest though.
Gary

gm tip. well i had very little time to get on but here is wht little i did.   what happened to
2 mtr?  i did cq there for several hours and listened there a bunch but nada except for you. go figure.
K9KNW

Tip here is my info. Given the mostly short but some nice rocks into the mobile loop, I didn't
even attempt 2m. Two meter loops were on board but from what I could see it was not going
to be worth the effort given the pace I had to keep. My "copilot" enjoyed himself and he was
able to work a couple with his call in program. Best dx wasn't that great and as usual, I lost 2-3
qso's due to rocks tailing off in the late morning. Fun trips with about 350 miles and 6+ hours
Saturday and \par another 100 miles and 2+ hours Sunday morning. I never did get a qso
from home grid! Grid at the end of each log record is my grid at time.
N5SIX

Hi Tip, Attached is my log for the Spring 07 Rally. Sunday morning was the best of conditions by far here.
I was not really serious this time due to lots of irons in the fire this weekend. Important stuff like finishing
a yagi project for my NOAA weather radio, playing tennis with my daughter, and going to the diamond jaxx
ballgame on Sunday :<) I decided to do single band 6 meters for several reasons.Grids coming excruciatingly
slow for Century Grid especially on 2m. I now have 88 on 2 meters and 78 on 6 meters.
Regardless, WSJT is still very fun here.73,ChuckAF4O

Tip,
  Not much to report, but here is what I got.   Saw three other stations but did not work them :-(   Don>>>

That's my biggie Tip, not much heard out here out West.
I don't think the new rules worked for me. Norm kc6zwt CM98.

Tip -- Attached is log for the Spring Rally. Seemed to run pretty good after everyone read the rules, hi hi.
We had a good time and look forward to the next one, hopefully will have new 2M preamp by then.
-- 73 -- r Les, W4FRA

That was frustrating!  I heard so few people on ... maybe I have a station problem ...!   73, Steve

Not a big score but we did give it a go. Must have monitored a total of 10 r hours to get the two contacts
but still, like fishing, you have to be r patient. See Attached excell spread sheet. 73\par Stan\par K7JIZ

I enjoyed the contest. I found random contacts easy to complete on six meters and few meteors for the 144MHz
band also I 'think two meter activity was very poor, I don't know what happened to all those two meter guys?
Was nice to have some active rovers in my area,
Tip (WA5UFH)

I heartily approve of encouraging random MS QSOs, however, the forced offset rules in this contest are not
necessary (especially out here in the west). I missed two QSOs with non-contesters who were calling CQ
simplex on the calling frequency.
AJ6T

No log from me this time around. I tried working several stations but never could get a completion. The
conditions were probably the worst I have seen in several years of "Meteor Scattering".
73 John W9SE