[NLRS] Web mail formatting failure -2nd try June Contest EN37ed

[Bill Davis Jr]

 Well the web mail formatting was lost here once the email went through
the reflector. I sent one to myself first and it was ok. I have tried again
below. If this is BAD too and if interested I will post the data on my web pages
under NEWs ... qth.net/k0awu/News.html after a while. Sorry  .... Bill
 
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GM All
 
  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 pointcontest 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.
 
                                                       
 Band    Grids    QSOs    Points                   
  6       109      162    27054        
  2        19       45     7515    
 222       10       20     6680         
 432       12       26     8684         
 902        6        9     4509                  
1296        6       10     5010          
10Ghz       5        7     4676           
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Total      167      279   64,128     My 2nd highest Point total for June contest


Band   Wrked/High/Rank       Wrked/High/Rank
       
 6    Grids 109/162/2nd      QSOs 162/626/2nd
 2    Grids 19/41/4th        QSOs 45/109/2nd
222   Grids 10/15/4th        QSOs 20/28/Tie 3rd
432   Grids 12/18/4th        QSOs 26/34/Tie 4th
1296  Grids 6/8/Tie 3rd      QSOs 10/10/Tie 1st
10Ghz Grids 5/4/Tie 1st      QSOs 7/5/1st
 
 
  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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