09/16/2004 | K9CVC Well this was my first Multi-Multi effort (with low power). We operated from the W0UC/W0AIH (EN44) contest station. My main goal was to get some new operators on the air and show them what a VHF contest is like. I was very surprised! After a couple hours QRV both Amber, KC9FVW and Dave, KC9FQD were acting like pros. They quickly learned the benefit of passing mults and strategies of maximizing their QSO rate. Darrell, K9AIH was the 432 operator and Dave, N9TTX joined us midway through the contest after his rotor started smoking. N9TTX was in charge on 222, 902, and 1296. KB9QGL supplied us with some 10Ghz QSOs. I thought the bands were pretty good and near the end of the contest there was some tropo to MI, OH, IN, and EM26. KB8U and K9EA both in EN71 were worked on 144 and 222. W9ZIH (EN51) was worked through 1296 along with K2DRH (EN41) and K2YAZ (EN74) For the first time we got KM0T (EN13) and K0AWU (EN37) on 1296 !! It was nice hearing so much activity and thanks to all of the rovers for keeping the bands alive. CU in the next test!

50Mhz 116/31, 144Mhz 157/36, 222Mhz 54/20, 432Mhz 74/19, 902Mhz 12/5, 1296Mhz 25/12, 10Ghz 2/1

Totals 440 x 124 = 80,352

73, Justin -- K9MU