single 2 meter squalo 1/4 wave above car roof
1/4 wave 6m whip on trunk lip mount
RADIO EQUIPMENT
Icom IC-706 original
Mirage B1016G 160 watt amplifier
DESCRIPTION
The CQ Worldwide VHF Contest 2002 was sponsored by
CQ Magazine. This is a yearly 27-hour contest
(6m/2m only) which runs from 2pm Saturday until 5pm Sunday one weekend
in July. AA2YG would be busy all weekend, so we decided that I would
run the show under the AA2YG/R callsign. The normal rover vehicle was
not used since it is "under construction" for the September 2002 VHF
Contest, so I used my personal vehicle instead. I visited 3
grids--FN12, FN13, and FN22, but I only made 2 QSOs from FN13. Using
only a mobile whip on 6m was very frustrating, and there were occasions
where I would have picked up another QSO if I had something
horizontally polarized. Fortunately the good weather allowed for easy
rovering. There was weak E skip on 6m Saturday afternoon, but none
Sunday. In all, I reached 6 states and the Canadian province of
Ontario. The longest distance reached on 6m was 1051 miles (1691 km)
and on 2m was 268 miles (431 km). On my 2m loop, while visiting FN13,
I did hear W4/ON1CFX/R. At
that time, he was rovering on top of Hogback Mountain, Virginia in
FM08 (3380 foot elevation), and that distance would have been 318
miles, but signals were too weak to complete a QSO. It took me several
transmissions just to copy his full callsign as QSB created
band conditions that cycled between favorable and barely readable.
POINTS SUMMARY
BAND QSOs QSO GRIDS
PTS
50 11 11 10
144 10 20 9
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TOTALS 21 31 19
Claimed score = 589 |
FROM FN12: CALLSIGN GRID TIME BAND ============================== AB8DY EM66 1840 6M N4ION EM62 1852 6M WA2BPE FN12 1857 6M W4NTI EM73 1902 6M KB2YVC FN12 1913 6M W4ZRZ EM63 1932 6M W4OZK EM74 1936 6M KU4IU EM54 1954 6M K5RPD EM35 2011 6M K1TEO FN31 2035 2M VE3KZ FN03 2046 2M FROM FN13: CALLSIGN GRID TIME BAND ============================== K2ERG FN13 0104 2M K2AN FN02 0115 2M FROM FN22: CALLSIGN GRID TIME BAND ============================== K1TEO FN31 1918 2M K1TEO FN31 1920 6M WB1AUV FN32 1923 2M W1RZF FN42 1923 2M W1XX FN41 2020 2M KB2KIR FN22 2046 6M KB2KIR FN22 2050 2M K5MA FN41 2056 2M
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