[NLRS] W0UC June VHF results

[Zack Widup]

Thanks for the QSO's Paul!

Conditions on 144 MHz were pitiful. There were some Chicago Rovers out -
K9JK/R, the duo K0PG-K9ILT/R, K9GY/R, W9SNR/R. But the only one I could
work was W9SNR/R who had all bands through 10 GHz except his 2304 wasn't
transmitting. The rest were all very weak at my EN50rl location and I never
was able to work any of them.

I also tried to work N4QWZ in EM66, who I can usually work at least on 144
MHz. I heard him but he never heard me. I also heard W5ZN and W4ZRZ calling
CQ on Sunday evening but neither could hear me and disappeared fairly
quickly. One of the "joys" of QRP Portable. :-)

On the other hand, high point was working T43S on 6m on Saturday but being
a little unsure if we'd completed the QSO. Called them again on Sunday and
was told I was in the log!

I don't think I posted my score here yet.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Paul Husby <husby002 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> A pretty slow June contest this year, as observed by others.  Little
> E-skip on Saturday;  Sunday was better, but much of my skip was to the
> waters of the Gulf.  I was able to spend more time on the other bands, so
> results there were better than last year, but not great. I never heard a
> strong signal on 902/1296 all weekend.  Conditions on 144-222-432 seemed to
> pick up Sunday afternoon and evening, or else people just finally turned
> their antennas up our way.  Best DX was out to WQ0P in EM19 on all three
> bands.
>
>      QSOs    Grids
> 50    229    95
> 144    66    32
> 222    31    17
> 432    39    19
> 902    13      6
> 1296    20    10
>
> Total  398   179    97,018
>
> Rovers were a big help as usual.  Thanks to Mel & Carol for sweeps on 6
> bands from 4 grids on Saturday, and K0MHC/r for 2 grids, though I lost
> track of him after that.  Caught K0BBC/r for a couple grids Sunday evening.
>  I never found any of the rovers in the Chicago-Iowa corridor;  hope for
> another chance on that in August & September.
>
> 73,
> Paul W0UC
> EN44HamRadio
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