[NLRS] June VHF contest from EN37ed
Zack Widup
w9sz.zack at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 13:18:33 EDT 2009
Hi Bill,
I heard you and called you a few times on 2m but I was in the QRP Portable
class and my 10 watts just wasn't making it to you.
One of the disadvantages of QRP Portable. You don't get to work a LOT of
people you hear.
73, Zack W9SZ
In EN50rl in the contest
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Bill Davis Jr <cqbilld at msn.com> wrote:
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> GM All
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> I enjoyed the contest and the contest total points were
> very satisfactory. It was my second highest June contest since I
> started really "operating" the contests in 2002. The highest point
> contest was of course the June 2006 "Contest of a Lifetime" with the
> huge 6 and 2m Es. It seems unfair to compare any contest to that year.
>
> Again
> I am NOT a fan of 6m Es during a VHF contest, but this time it provided
> activity that filled much of the daylight periods. A very good variety
> of grids and areas, East Saturday and west Sunday. Two out of every
> three six meter QSOs were unique grid squares. I only attempted a
> couple of brief "strings", mostly tuned and pounced.
>
> Activity
> above 6m seemed to be DOWN and QSOs were hard to find. Everyone working
> 6m, conditions or just not on? But conditions seemed strange. Barry
> VE4MA and I tried 2,222,432 on Sat and neither of us heard a peep.
> Sunday afternoon we worked on 432 with little trouble and really struggled
> for a 2m QSO, both CW. Heard nothing on 222. The 2m heading
> was very broad at both ends. I assume because of the fact that the 2m
> antenna is shooting into the ground less than a mile away due to
> elevation to the NW. 432 on the other hand peaked nicely. BUT to the
> south conditions seemed much better. Many "usual" calls are missing
> from my log. Good activity in EN37 saved "my bacon" on 6-432 numbers.
> Thanks go out to W6GMT, KC0UIU, K0NII/R, N0OE, WB0TDV, KC0KVD and a brief
> appearance by KB0CIM.
>
> Saturday Jon W0ZQ/r had some great 902
> and 1296 signal strengths from those outstanding rover locations.
> Sunday morning Bob K2DRH and I ran 6-432 on digital (WSJT) to complete
> a weak sig sweep. Looked like we could have worked on 2m CW, but we were
> set up for digital, 6, 222 and 432 were weak with QSB. By late
> afternoon I saw good signals for prolonged periods of time from K2DRH,
> N0URW and N0AKC on 2m SSB.
>
> Almost no QSOs from W9 land ....
> very odd. No idea of the activity level down that way for the contest
> or if it was just bad conditions and antennas not in the right
> direction at the right time. I looked and called that way A LOT.
>
>
> Saturday working W0ZQ/r was a BLAST with the WX systems that rumbled
> through our area. Jon and I worked RS on 10Ghz in each of his 4 grids.
> I also briefly saw Joe AI9Z/9's 10Ghz signal on Mt Brockaway EN67al
> (266miles) on the Softrock IF. Sad to say, the signals were brief and
> disappeared before any QSO was attempted. The WX system had some good
> development (around 20k), but just not enough. W0AUS had a great 5-9+ FM
> signal on 10Ghz RS shortly after
> the contest started off of a cell 30miles south of me. The storm related
> QRN sure didn't help the "low bands" Sat afternoon however!
>
> Attempting to make sense of the "numbers", I looked at how the raw
> grid/QSO numbers compare to my previous June contests since 2002. I hope
> those that are interested can understand how I have described the results.
>
> June Contests
> June Contests Data
> Band Grids QSOs Points Grids / High / Rank
> QSOs / High / Rank 2002-2009
> 6 109 162 27054 109 / 162 / 2nd
> 162 / 626 / 2nd
> 2 19 45 7515 19 / 41 / 4th
> 45 / 109 / 7th
> 222 10 20 6680 10 / 15 / 4th
> 20 / 28 / Tie 3rd
> 432 12 26 8684 12 / 18 / 4th
> 26 / 34 / Tie 4th
> 902
> 6 9 4509 6 / 6 / Tie
> 1st 9 / 6 / 1st ( <-3yrs data )
> 1296 6 10 5010 6 / 8 / Tie 3rd
> 10/ 10 / Tie 1st
> 10Ghz 5 7 4676 5 / 4 / Tie 1st
> 7 / 5 / 1st
> -------------------------------
> Total 167 279 64,128 My 2nd highest Point
> total for June contest
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>
> Thanks to all that roved and operated the contest. Without participation,
> the white noise wins! I operated the entire contest period except for a bit
> of sleep between 2:30 and 5:30am Sunday morning. The 279th contact was made
> in the last 20min of the contest and that ties the second highest number of
> QSOs for me in the June contests. Thanks K0AJL for that "important" QSO ...
> I feared I was going to fall short, by one QSO!!
>
> 73 and good DX Bill K0AWU EN37ed
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