[ILQSO] Re: W9DUA and club picnic

[dpease at adams.net]

Don, I am glad you guys had a good time in spite of the poor propagation. It 
was really bad where I was, in state guys were at best S5 and CQing in my 
face. 

After beating my gums on 40 and 20 (even tried CQing on 15) with very 
limited success, I thought it can't be any worse to try 75. At about 2:30 I 
was working stations on Illinois with well over S9 signals and convinced a 
couple I worked later on 40 to try 75 and we were off. I have never made 
more than a couple of phone QSO's on 75 during the ILQP before today, and I 
worked 80% of may contacts on 75 meters.. I kept bouncing back to 40 and 20 
but never could get anything going, so back to 75 I went. I always thought 
75 was a total waste if time but this year I even managed to work a few SSB 
QSO's on the way home out of the mobile. 

Danny NG9R 


Donald Pitchford writes: 

> Well, we gave it a try from Lake Sangchris. 40 meters was so-so. All we 
> worked on 20 meters was Europe, Alaska, Montana, Maine, etc. No Illinois 
> at all on 20 meters. Only one contact on 2 meters. I came home and worked 
> about 60 contacts on 80 meters in 45 minutes. Unless there is an outburst 
> of sunspots I think I already have next year's strategy worked out. Watch 
> football for the first 6 hours of the contest. Then at sunset fire up the 
> rig on 80 and knock out a few hundred contacts in the last 2 hours. In 
> spite of lack of propagation and QSOs we had about 15 Club members show up 
> at Lake Sangchris. The pot of chili that KC9GQR cooked on the campfire was 
> great. As were the hot dogs, brats, and all the other food people brought. 
> Look for pictures on the svrc,org website in the next week or so. 
> 
> Don, W9EBK 
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Danny Pease
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