[50mhz] Re: [VHF] Contest conditions in SW Oklahoma

[Bill W5WVO]

Not quite a total 6M shut-out here in New Mexico, but about as close as you 
can get. Saturday was pretty much a complete bust for everybody in the western 
US; on Sunday, I watched the real-time prop map as the eastern US and the 
Pacific northwest enjoyed at least some sporadic-E propagation, but nothing 
here in New Mexico until the last hour of the contest, when those eastern-US 
sporadic-E clouds finally drifted far enough west that we could reach them 
from New Mexico. 60 minutes later, at contest end, this too was gone.

This is our payback for the incredible sporadic-E propagation we enjoyed 
during last year's June contest, I guess! The propagation gods giveth and the 
propagation gods taketh away, and this year it was definitely the "taketh 
away" part.

Oh, well. Better luck in July for the CQWW! It really can't get much worse.

Bill / W5WVO


New Mexico was totally shut out through the first 32.5 of the contest's 33 
hours

John Geiger wrote:
> I cannot comment on 2m and above, since I was limited to 6 meters
> during this contest, but these were some of the worst conditions I
> have seen for a June contest, and I have been on 6 since 1992.
>
> We only had 2 very short Eskip openings that I caught-one saturday
> night around 0300z to Utah, which lasted about 20 minutes, and one
> Sunday night from 0115Z to around 0215Z to MD, VA, OH, PA, KY, and
> IL.  Other than that, just meteor pings and very short Es bursts.
>
> I was happy that I could give out EM05 to a couple of people, but of
> course the band opened much better once I got back to my home grid.
> Hope others had better conditions there.
>
> 73s John AA5JG/R (EM04 EM05 EM14 EM15)
>
>
> John Geiger AA5JG
> Associate Professor of Psychology-Cameron University
> ex: W5TD, NE0P, N0EEN, KA0IFG
>
> 6M WAS #1275, 6m VUCC #1260 (400 grids)
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