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TOTALS, BESIDES JUST POWER AND ANTENNA HEIGHT AND GAIN, AND JEFF HAS SHARED
HIS 20 YEAR VHF CONTESTING EXPERIENCE WITH MANY AVID VHFERS AT RECENT
REGIONAL RADIO CONFERENCES.  KNOWLEDGE OF THE REGIONAL OPERATING HABITS IS
ESSENTIAL, LIKE WHO GETS ON WHAT BANDS A
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120 RI NE8J 83 1 1 118 NFL KD5ATR 58 2 1 116 AR W6YQQ 58 2 2 116 SV K9WMS

AS WELL, JUMPING INTO SECOND PLACE WITH ALMOST 3,000,000 POINTS.  THE NORTH
EAST WEAK SIGNAL GROUP HELD ONTO THEIR THIRD PLACE POSITION FROM 2005, WITH
18 MEMBERS SUBMITTING LOGS FOR A TOTAL OF 1,750,000 POINTS.  THE MT AIRY
PACK RATS WERE IN FOURTH PLACE, AND THE NORTHERN LIGHTS RADIO SOCIETY
MAINTAINED THEIR SAME FIFTH PLACE SPOT AS LAST YEAR.  ONE BIG JUMP WAS THE
CHIPPEWA VALLEY VHF CONTESTERS, WHO MOVED FROM THE LOCAL CATEGORY IN 2005
TO THE MEDIUM CATEGORY THIS YEAR.  THEIR LOGS FROM 13 MEMBERS TOTALED OVER
1,100,000, WHILE LAST YEAR THEY HAD ONLY 10 ENTRIES AND 230,000.  IN THE
LOCAL CATEGORY, THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN CONTEST CLUB, LED BY THEIR MOTHER SHIP
AT THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN CONTEST CLUB, K3EAR, ATTAINED TOP HONORS WITH 984,000
POINTS.  THE EASTERN CONNECTICUT ARA PUT TOGETHER SIX LOGS FOR SECOND PLACE
WITH 418,000 POINTS, UP TWO NOTCHES FROM LAST YEAR.  THE MICHIGAN VHF UHF
SOCIETY APPEARS TO HAVE THEIR FIRST ENTRY, MAKING IT INTO THIRD PLACE WITH
FOUR ENTRIES AND A TOTAL OF 404,000 POINTS.  VHF CONTESTERS GREATLY BENEFIT
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172 ENY K1FLK 9 2 1 168 CT NJ4F 105 1 1 167 SC WA2WMJ 46 2 1 162 ENY AE6SP
54 2 2 158 ORG NI9DX 54 2 2 158 IL KD5KI 75 2 1 150 IL KZ2G 37 2 1 148 NLI
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KEEPS THEM ROLLING.  JOHN DESLOGE, N6MU, WITH ARNIE SHATZ, N6HC,
ACCOMPANYING FROM SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CAPTURED TOP HONORS WITH A SCORE OF
510,000 POINTS, COVERING 16 GRIDS WITH 10 BANDS ON BOARD.  RIGHT BEHIND IN
SECOND PLACE WAS ART GODDARD, W6XD, ASSISTED BY BOB HUGHES, KG6TOA, WHO
APPEARED TO TAKE THE SAME ROUTE WITH THE SAME BANDS FOR A SCORE OF 473,000
POINTS.  N6TEB GLENN ALLEN, KE6HPZ, OP WAS IN THIRD PLACE WITH 292,000,
COVERED 11 GRIDS WITH PAUL ST JOHN, N6DN, ON A SIMILAR ROUTE IN FOURTH
PLACE WITH 261,000 POINTS.  THE FIFTH PLACE HONOR WENT TO BILL ROGERS,
K2TER, FROM THE ROCHESTER VHF GROUP WITH A SCORE OF 197,000.  MORE THAN
HALF OF THE ROVERS WERE CAPABLE ON EIGHT BANDS OR MORE, MANY HAVING GEAR
THROUGH 24 GHZ AND LASER.  CLUB COMPETITION THIS IS THE FOURTH YEAR THAT
AGGREGATED CLUB SCORES HAVE APPEARED IN QST FOR THE JUNE QSO PARTY, AND THE
WINNER WAS NO SURPRISE THE POTOMAC VALLEY RADIO CLUB.  LED BY THE 2 MILLION
POINT EFFORT OF THEIR MULTI OP FLAGSHIP, THE DELMARVA VHF AND MICROWAVE
SOCIETY, K8GP, THEIR 36 ENTRIES GARNERED A GRAND TOTAL OF OVER 4,800,000
POINTS.  THE SOCIETY OF MIDWEST CONTESTERS COLLECTED LOGS FROM 36 MEMBERS
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ORG KB9AFW 100 2 1 200 MI N3GE 37 2 1 198 MDC KC0CZ 99 2 1 198 CO WB9UHL 99
2 1 198 IL W2OO 65 2 1 186 TN OK1CZ 33 2 1 182 DX W5GAI 116 1 1 182 STX
WO3T 89 2 2 178 WPA KA1CQR 87 2 1 174 CT W3JM 86 2 1 172 EPA N2MRI 61 2 1
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