[50mhz] Wow! What a contest!

[Danny Pease]

It is as much or more related to propagation and location than anything.
Operating skill and equipment can't make up for being in the right place at
the right time.

Danny NG9R


-----Original Message-----
From: 50mhz-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:50mhz-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of John Geiger
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 10:09 PM
To: vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu; 6meter at Yahoogroups.com; 50mhz at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [50mhz] Wow! What a contest!


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


      
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