[AK-VHF] January VHF Contest vs NFC Championship

[Paul Kiesel]

Howdy All,

Yes, indeed. I did miss some hours of the contest watching the Seahawks-49ers game on TV. Wow, what a white-knuckle spectacle, eh?  


Actually, I missed other hours of the contest doing less interesting things, but I did spend a respectable amount of time in front of the rig, too. I scored only two (2) QSOs via sporadic E (both contacts with stations in Colorado), but I was pleased to have any E-skip at all this time around.  We did have a tight temperature inversion over the Puget Sound Depression down as far as Southern Oregon, so there was some decent tropospheric ducting enhancing signals even on 50 MHz.  Others did far better than I, but I finished with 112 QSOs in 25 grids for a score of 2800 points. I operated on 50 MHz only.


As usual, numbers of participants was low as compared to the June contest, but we had a reasonable turnout here along the Northwest Coast, from Campbell River, BC (VE7DAY in CO70) all the way to Ashland and Medford, OR (K7BWH/R in CN72 and WB6FFC in CN82).

I hope there was a good turnout for the contest among the AVG Alaska members.  Don't forget to submit your log even if you made a single contact during the contest. All the contest info is on the AVG Contest page here:

http://www.qsl.net/a/ak-vhf/Contests/

73, Paul K7CW / VE7IB
AVG Contest Guy