[ADXA] VHF contest

[Steven Rutledge]

I was able to come up with 112 contacts, some SSB and CW but the lion's 
share FT8, 68 multipliers, 6 - 2.3.  Not much I can do in the city with 
one tower.  My six meter rate slowed down quite a bit when I was 
transmitting into my 160 meter antenna for a couple of hours.  Ouch.

Thanks to all members who worked me.  Joel, great effort as always.  One 
day, if COVID ever ends, I'd love to see you in action during one of the 
VHF tests.

Hope all have a good week.

PS, Sandy, I did jump down to 80 to see if I could catch the TZ but I 
just couldn't pull him out here.

WB5JJJ was my last contact from EM35.  I saw him being worked the entire 
contest but never printed him.  As I was about to shut down, I noticed 
he was the only one calling CQ on six FT8.  I worked him on first try 
with 40 watts!!!!!!  Thanks George.

73,

Steve, QQ

On 1/18/2021 10:54 AM, w5zn at w5zn.org wrote:
>
> By the way, N4JQQ tells me that ADXA is one of the club selections 
> when you enter your log. I know W5VY was working on this a while back 
> so glad it is now listed. If you are submitting a log for this 
> contest, and are located within the required boundary, please select 
> ADXA as there is a club competition associated with the January VHF 
> contest. If you have already submitted your log simply go back and 
> submit it again with ADXA identified as the club.
>
> Of course, put forth a big effort and ended with 308 Q's and 208 
> grids. You can go to 3830 scores and see the breakdown if interested 
> however my SSB/CW Q's on 6 and 2 meters was a small part of the total.
>
> It was good to see a lot of you on the air this past weekend.
>
> ZN
>
>
>
> On 2021-01-18 09:35, Dennis Schaefer wrote:
>
>> I didn't get finished with my VHF/UHF antennas due to cold and wind, 
>> but was able to get on 2M during the VHF contest and work about 10 
>> grids.  I was happy to work several ADXA'ers, like W5ZN, N4JQQ, and 
>> W5VY.  I copied WZ1V and N2WK on the east coast.  This was 2 meters 
>> only - 6 meters is down and 432 didn't get installed on Friday as I 
>> hoped.  It will be ready before the next contests, I'm sure.  Maximum 
>> height will be about 20 feet, but it gets me on the VHF bands, which 
>> is more than I usually have.
>> I listened around 144.200 quite a bit but never heard any SSB or CW, 
>> so everything was on FT8.  I think if there had been some better 
>> openings, SSB and CW would have been a factor, but it is January.
>> I appreciate all the help.
>> 73,
>> Dennis, W5RZ
>>
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