[50mhz] Wow! What a contest!

[Rsoifer at aol.com]

Well, as they say about real estate, it's all about "location, location,  
location."  Six may have been better than last year in Oklahoma, but down  
here in EM00 the contest was good but not great.  Openings on Sunday were  
brief, unlike last year when the band pretty much stayed open all day.  
 
I had fun anyway.
 
73 Ray W2RS
 
 
In a message dated 6/15/2009 3:18:14 A.M. GMT Standard Time,  
dpease at adams.net writes:

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


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On  Behalf Of John Geiger
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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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