[NLRS] 222 E's

[jcplatt1 at mmm.com]

You can catch the full article on the ARRLs website at
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/06/24/10176/?nc=1 , but one of our
own NLRS guys does good and catches some 222 E's.    Here is an exert from
the web article .......

"After  small 2 meter E-skip openings on June 3-4 from the Northeast to the
Midwest,  Zimmerman  said  the bands blew wide open during the ARRL VHF QSO
Party  on  June  15  with a report of two 222 MHz contacts: John Butrovich,
W5UWB  (EL17), of Orange Grove, Texas, to Vince Pavkovich, N0VZJ (EN35), of
Big  Lake,  Minnesota;  and Paul Trotter, AA4ZZ (EM96), of Charlotte, North
Carolina,  to  David  Rush,  W5DDR  (EM84),  McAlister,  New  Mexico. "This
extremely  rare event has happened less than half a dozen times in the last
60  years,"  Zimmerman  said.  "Two meter E skip was everywhere: Texas; all
over  the  Midwest  and  Mid-Atlantic;  New  Mexico to West Virginia, North
Carolina,  Kentucky  and  Tennessee;  Colorado  to  Florida, West Virginia,
Tennessee,  Alabama,  Georgia,  Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas; Idaho, Oregon
and  Washington  to  the  Midwest; Wyoming to Illinois, and Nevada to Iowa,
North Dakota and Minnesota."

73, Jon
W0ZQ