[50mhz] Wow! What a contest!

[John Geiger]

They just keep getting better and better.  Didn't think I would be able to top last year's 6m performance, but beat it by quite a bit.  Can't comment on the higher bands since I was limited to 6m (and FM on 2m and 70cm) but 6 was open for most of the contest, to lots of areas at once.
Hope everyone else had a great contest also.

The final tally for me was 277 QSOs and 117 Grids on 6m.  Thought I was going to break 300 Qs but the propagation dropped out the last couple of hours.  Managed to work 5 all time new grids-CN81, CO90, DN15, DN24, FM13.

Just to show you that a large station isn't required to have a blast on 6m, I did this with a Yaesu FT450 at 100 watts to a MFJ 3 element yagi at 30 feet.

Can't wait to see what 2010 brings!

73s John AA5JG
Grid EM04to