[NLRS] Fwd: 144 Es Propagation during Contest

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

I was doing so poorly on 6m the hour before that in finding new stations 
to work, that I shut the rig off for an hour or two.

It often doesn't take all that much RF to work a sporadic E path, but 
under contest conditions when the southerners are hearing Washington to 
Maine at the same time, QRP and a small antenna can't be heard in the 
pile ups.

One of my better June contests I did 100 grids and 169 Qs with 100 watts 
PEP and a 75 meter double extended Zepp with tuned feeder. My present 6m 
double extended Zepp isn't doing as well.

A quick count looks like 34 Qs and maybe as many as 30 grids on 6.

The reflection spot for sporadic E can be small, but usually on 10 and 
6m there are many reflectors while its almost sure than only one got to 
reflecting 2m and the Missouri station saw RF from it looking NE.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 6/16/2014 11:03 PM, ka0ryt1 via NLRS wrote:
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> Date: 06/16/2014  11:41 PM  (GMT-06:00)
> To: nlrs at mailman.qth.com
> Subject: 144 Es Propagation during Contest
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> Hello ! Did anyone else observe the 144mhz Es  on or around 2006z Sunday afternoon ??? I got an e-mail from a station in Mo. that heard and recorded my QSO with W4ZRZ in Em63. It was weird because he was pointed at 60deg azimuth . I will be submitting my log tomorrow ( 17390 points -personal best !!! ) I will also share my log information here too... 73s , Ron KA0RYT EN35ct
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