[ILQSO] Contest propagation

[M.T.]

I started beaming Eu and couldnt hear the east coast from the Eu's 
calling.   After 5 minutes and 10 Eu's I turned west.  The east coast was 
plenty strong on the back of the beam.
I worked a bunch of ME, NJ and NY in the first hour on 20m.

I made 100 q's on 20m in the first 67 minutes and 25 were east coast.

40 was great.  I had a 142 hour on ph between 18:16 and 19:16z

With the contest being 1hr earlier, 40 didnt have time to go long.  It was 
mostly mid America until 7pm or so when the 6/7 stations starting coming up.

Mark
N9UM


At 09:32 PM 10/17/2005, you wrote:
>My experience was that 20 was good to the west and south, but I didn't 
>work many East Coast stations. 40 seemed fairly normal to me the whole 
>time. Just my subjective observations...
>
>73,
>Joe K9LY
>
>
>On Oct 17, 2005, at 9:01 AM, John Geiger (NE0P) wrote:
>
>>What was the contest propagation like in Illinois.  It was strange here 
>>in Oklahoma.  20 was in excellent shape for the contest, as people were 
>>giving me S9 +30 reports and that is with 100 watts and a 2 element mini 
>>quad.  However, I am guessing that 40 meters was short up there, as it 
>>seemed that all of the Illinois stations went to 40 very early.  I never 
>>heard NN9K/M on 20 at all.
>>
>>I did work a couple of IL stations earlier on 40 than usual from 
>>here-like around 2pm, but overall 40 was very tough here.  The IL 
>>stations weren't as loud as they usually are on that band, and I was 
>>having alot of trouble competing with the 8s and 4s to get through.
>>Made for a very frustrating afternoon.  Not much contest activity on 20, 
>>and had trouble competing on 40.  I got tied up at the end of the contest 
>>so I didn't get to try 80 at all.
>
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