[ILQSO] 20 meters

[John Geiger]

I think it was 75 counties worked for a food prize,
correct?  I came in at 77 (hopefully, depending on log
checking) so it beat my county total of last year.  

It is interesting to see everyone in IL complaining
about conditions as they were pretty good for OK to IL
QSOs. The few stations I did hear on 20 were booming
in here, and 40 was workable right at the start of the
contest, which is unusual.  Usually 40 doesn't open
nicely to IL until 3pm or so.  It was noisy here
Sunday, with some sort of man-made noise cycling on
and off on 40, and moving around the band.  Only 20khz
or so were affected at 1 time, but it was usually CW
instead of SSB, unfortunately.

80 had some nice strong signals by the end of the
contest, where 40 had lengthened to the point where
stations were pretty weak again, and very few and far
between by contest end.

73s John AA5JG
--- James Funk <jfunk at fossnorthamerica.com> wrote:

> At least you'll get food.  I had to buy ours at
> Applebee's on the way
> home :)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
> John Geiger
> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 9:10 PM
> To: ilqso at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [ILQSO] 20 meters
> 
> So where was all of the 20 meter activity?  For the
> second year in a row there was very little activity
> on
> 20m.  From 2001-2005 I could count of spending the
> first 2 1/2 to 3 hours of the contest on 20 running
> at
> a good contest rate.  Today I was on 40 during the
> first hour of the contest.  If 40 hadn't been long
> from the start, this contest would have been a bust.
> 
> I did get enough counties for food!
> 
> 73s John AA5JG
> >From the windy state of Oklahoma
> 
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