09/19/2003 | K2QO/R This effort was a solo rover due to my rover partner being QRT in 8-land for the weekend. While there was no discernable propogation of any kind, I did manage a few nice q's. On Saturday I set up in FN02 expecting to do a QRP portable, but one station scolded me early on for not roving. Since activity was a bit sparse, I cranked up the power and went to another grid. In the end, I worked from FN02, 03 and 13 on Saturday. After a golf outing on Sunday, I arrived at FN12 after supper and stayed until about 10:30 PM local. The breakdown is as follows:

RoverLog QSOs by Activated Grid:
Grid QSOs
FN13 20
FN02 52
FN12 63
FN03 34

RoverLog Score Summary, Using new rover rules:
Band QSOs Mults
50MHz 43Q 16M
144 MHz 64Q 22M
222 MHz 23Q 8M
432 MHz 28Q 9M
1.2 Ghz 9Q 2M
10 GHz 2Q 2M

Grids activated: 4

Totals: 169 Q's 63Grids

Claimed Score: 15372

The equipment here is typical of the 'no-budget' philosophy.

***6M/2M/70cm FT-100D at full power to a 6M X-Beam, 2M 6-el WA5VJB and 432 11-el WA5VJB
***222MHz FT-817 driving a W1GHZ XVTR at 5W to 6-el HB WA5VJB
***1.2G FT-817 driving a DEMI XVTR at 3W to a 15-el HB Quagi
***10G Borrowed Yaesu 2M rig, DEMI XVTR, Qualcomm Amp, RCA 18" Dish and HB Feed
Thanks to K0SM for the 10G stuff!

See you all in January 2004. Please talk this one up at every radio meeting till January with EVERYONE who will give you the time. It would be nice to have a barn burner of a contest where you couldn't work'em all becuase there were TOO many!

Check out my rover at http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~msadams/RDV%20Photos/

73, Mark -- K2QO/R