[NLRS] AU from EN37ed

[Karl Heil]

First of all thanks to Bill for the alert!

I made my first ever 222 Au contacts last night.  Worked Bill, N8PUM, WA8RJF 
(EN 91), and K2ERG (FN13).  Heard N4QWZ but unable to work him.  Also heard 
VE3KRP on 222 SSB! (very distorted), but could not get his attention either.

  Lots of stations worked on 6 mtrs with only a sloping dipole and 100 
watts.  Like Bill, my 6 mtr contacts were mainly SSB, 2 and 222 were all cw. 
Furthest west I worked on 6 was ND0B (EN07 - ND), furthest east was K1IED 
(FN31).

Heard one station on 432, W0FLS, but was unable to work him.

Got up numerous times during the wee hours to look for a visual aurora, but 
unfortunately nothing observed "down" here.

73, Karl
WD9BGA
EN53BA

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bill Davis via NLRS
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 8:22 AM
To: NLRS Post
Subject: [NLRS] AU from EN37ed



GM all
   Played around a bit on AU after my NLRS post that 6m was open. The 6m 
activity was very good, lots of strong signals, mostly out east but a few 
out west too, as far east here as CT and NJ. The antennas seemed to do their 
best around 45deg or so, but some good Qs straight east. As soon as 
nightfall arrived I was out on the lake quite a bit watching the light show. 
The visual aurora at times was very bright. The color remained yellow green 
here (excited oxygen at 60-180 miles up). A few good search lights, but 
mostly "blobs" and bands of color. The light pollution to the north was at 
last washed out somewhat by the brightness of the AU and the loss of snow in 
the parking lots / streets.
  2 meters was a bit slow on the uptake, but once it arrived it was quite 
strong. The biggest problem is that it seemed like EVERYONE wanted to 
operate around 144.180-144.190... QRM!! Two stations worked on 222 (KU8Y and 
WD8BGA) KU8Y was very loud for close to an hour, but nothing else heard. 
There were reports of good 432 AU, but I think I was too late for that here. 
Not sure if the AU was just too far south or what.
  No great DX here but I consider that every contact was "special". A 
surprising number of NEW CALLS and lots of "old" friends. In the end .... 31 
Qs on 6meters, 23 Qs on 2meters and 2 on 222. All 2 and 222 QSOs were CW and 
almost all on 6m were SSB.

Main opening ... First Q at 21:23z on 2m (KM0T!!!!)  last Q 02:35z (6m)
73  Bill  K0AWU


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