START-OF-LOG: 2.3 CREATED-BY: TR Log POST Version 6.76 CALLSIGN: K5TR CONTEST: ARRL-VHF-SEP ARRL-SECTION: STX CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH MIXED CLAIMED-SCORE: 918 NAME: Ken Harker ADDRESS: 7009 Fireoak Drive ADDRESS: Austin, TX ADDRESS: 78759 OPERATORS: WM5R SOAPBOX: Thanks again to George for letting me use his station for SOAPBOX: this contest. SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: I had no enhanced propagation in the first hour of the SOAPBOX: contest, and in fact only managed to work four local grids. SOAPBOX: The band opened to south and central Florida around 0010 SOAPBOX: UTC, but it wasn't a very strong opening. I worked 18 SOAPBOX: Floridians in the 0000 UTC clock hour, but none of them SOAPBOX: were heard for the entire opening except for KC4PX. SOAPBOX: The opening softened even more, but I was able to work SOAPBOX: another five stations in Florida between 0100 UTC and SOAPBOX: 0130 UTC. SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: Another thin opening started around 0140 UTC, this time SOAPBOX: to the Mid-Atlantic states area, and I eventually added SOAPBOX: another six grids in the FM grid field to my totals, but SOAPBOX: not many more QSOs. The most consistently heard SOAPBOX: stations in that direction were W2MMD and W3ZZ. The SOAPBOX: opening closed around 0230 UTC. SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: Local activity continues to be low. I was unable to work SOAPBOX: anyone in the Houston metro area, for example. I worked SOAPBOX: four members of the local HF contest club in Austin, SOAPBOX: but as near as I can tell, not one active member of the SOAPBOX: local VHF/UHF weak signal club in South Texas was on the SOAPBOX: air. This is the first time I've worked a VHF contest SOAPBOX: and not made at least one contact with one of their SOAPBOX: members. QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-14 2302 K5TR EM00 KE5RS em10 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-14 2307 K5TR EM00 K1IEB em10 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-14 2312 K5TR EM00 WA5HLQ em10 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-14 2315 K5TR EM00 K5AEM em10 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-14 2316 K5TR EM00 WD5K em12 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-14 2317 K5TR EM00 W5OZI em00 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-14 2318 K5TR EM00 NA4M em10 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-14 2319 K5TR EM00 AB5K em00 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-14 2324 K5TR EM00 N5SJS em01 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0002 K5TR EM00 WA8ZBT em12 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0011 K5TR EM00 N5DRG em10 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0019 K5TR EM00 W4MZ el98 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0022 K5TR EM00 KG4RWO el96 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0023 K5TR EM00 WV4I el96 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0023 K5TR EM00 KC5HMC em10 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0026 K5TR EM00 AC4KM el98 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0035 K5TR EM00 W4OV el96 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0035 K5TR EM00 K4RES el98 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0036 K5TR EM00 K4YHB el96 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0037 K5TR EM00 KA4HYY el98 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0038 K5TR EM00 KK4SI el98 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0039 K5TR EM00 N4WO el88 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0041 K5TR EM00 KC4PX el98 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0044 K5TR EM00 W4IHI el87 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0047 K5TR EM00 WP4O/W4 el87 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0048 K5TR EM00 KD4ESV el87 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0048 K5TR EM00 WA4EEZ el87 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0049 K5TR EM00 W4EMB el95 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0051 K5TR EM00 K4ADR el96 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0052 K5TR EM00 KI4IMA el96 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0056 K5TR EM00 K4OXG el98 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0101 K5TR EM00 N4KJP el96 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0102 K5TR EM00 N8DMI el96 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0109 K5TR EM00 N4JAD el87 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0115 K5TR EM00 K1EY el97 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0129 K5TR EM00 KD4FLP el95 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0139 K5TR EM00 N5TDX em00 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0141 K5TR EM00 W2MMD fm29 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0144 K5TR EM00 KE5CDK em12 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0145 K5TR EM00 W4AZR fm08 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0147 K5TR EM00 K1RZ fm19 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0147 K5TR EM00 W3ZZ fm19 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0148 K5TR EM00 N3OPM/3 fm19 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0150 K5TR EM00 AD5A el09 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0158 K5TR EM00 KC5OLC em10 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0159 K5TR EM00 W5GAI em10 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0209 K5TR EM00 W3DOG fm28 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0220 K5TR EM00 KG4HOT fm07 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0223 K5TR EM00 W3GNQ fm18 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0226 K5TR EM00 KA2N fm18 QSO: 50 PH 2005-05-15 0259 K5TR EM00 NT5HS em13 END-OF-LOG: