[NLRS] Jan VHF ARRL from EN37ed -- SOHP

[Bill Davis]

Another “interesting contest”. I was off/on Saturday overabout a 3 hour period and other than that not at all Saturday. In that period Ihad 21 QSOs. Then Sunday I was on quite a bit until about 4:30pm.

I hate to even comment on conditions Saturday. I workedChris N0JCF (148 miles) right at the beginning and he was doing VERY well, weran the bands (6,2,222,432,1296) on SSB no issues. Gary W0GHZ (153 miles) and Iran the bands on SSB with the exception of 10GHz were we went to CW.

Sunday was entirely a different issue. Looking North toVE4CY, VA3ECO, VE4DDZ I found conditions to be pretty “normal” winterconditions. Looking other directions was a whole other deal. Conditions wereflatly HORRID, all bands, all directions. Very few stations heard non-digitalall day.

I worked a ½ dozen 6m stations on Es. 

Of my 72 contacts, 30 were using digital modes:

         14 contacts  --   6meters   FT8

         10 contacts  -- 144 – 432   FT8

           6contacts  -- 144 & 432   Q65 (VE4CY, VA3ECO, VE4DDZ)

The remaining 42 contacts ::

           8 contactson CW

          34 contactson SSB

 

In the end::

    6M – 26 contacts  -- 16 grids

    2M – 20 contacts  -- 13 grids

    222 – 7 contacts  --  4grids  

    902 – 3 contacts  -- 2 grids

  1296 – 3 contacts  -- 3 grids

10GHz – 1 contact  --1 grid

Total – 72 contacts and 47 multipliers  --- Points claimed 5,452