This contest provided an interesting result: When I activated my second grid, I worked no new grids despite the 400' increase in elevation. In fact, I worked three more unique grids from the lower elevation the day before. The most likely explanation is the extra hour of operating from the lower site, which should also explain why the lower site provided me with more QSO points:

GRID	QSO POINTS
FN11	32
FN22	18

Of particular interest in this contest was the performance of 144 MHz versus 50 MHz. In previous contests with which I've been involved, 50 MHz almost always provides more unique grids, whether or not there's a band opening. June 2003 is one example. But not so this time. There were 13 on 144 MHz but only 10 on 50 MHz. Of course, part of the reason can be attributed to the failure of my 6m loop in the last hour of operating from FN11.

There was no Es on 6m nor tropo on 2m for this contest at my locations.





POINTS SUMMARY

Band   QSOs    QSO pts.    Mults.
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50      22        22        10 
144     29        29        13 
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TOTALS  51        51        23
                            +2 grids activated
                           ---
                            25


        --- Claimed score = 1,275 ---