[NLRS] Cqww vhf...so far...

[Dave Fugleberg]

Was on from time to time yesterday. Early in the contest there was some
(very) sporadic E - worked EM31 and EM22 on SSB with LOUD signals. Then
KA0PQW and N9TTX, both of them on both 6m and 2m SSB.

Never got any takers for my CW CQs.

Thunderstorms today so I’m off the air. Maybe later…

73 de W0ZF

On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 3:19 AM Dave Aho - N9TTX via NLRS <
nlrs at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

>  Uffda...dead bands. At least I got 2 q's in the books from EN34. I heard
> some faint signals on 6m In the early afternoon, but it was uncopiable..
> There were also maybe a few faint signals on 6 and 2 late afternoon around
> 5ish, but so far in the weeds to only hear a  mumble.
>
> Late night nothing either.  I kept hoping a little aurora might come
> up...nope.  I did flip the HF on ..nice sounding rig Jon W0ZQ, 20 Was
> booming late night into Europe. Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Germany,  and
> the Canary Islands.  I had a short for 20m tuned in cb whip on the truck
> instead of the Valor multiband, so I wasn't able to bust the pile ups, but
> the signals were 20 over 9.
>
> Hopefully I'll get out a bit tomorrow in the mid morning til maybe the end
> if the contest. Hopefully the bands open tomorrow. I'll be running EN44,
> possibly EN45 on SSB/ (rusty)CW. I'll be hanging/calling out about
> 50.125/144.200 and up if busy...dipping down below 50.126 voice to
> Hopefully hit the DX window (forgot it was there. Lol)
> Now and again I'll drop further into the weak CW portion and call out I'll
> say near the .025 freq on both bands
>
> 50 mHz:  100w into a squalo and if conditions allow, I can unfold the 4
> element when parked.
>
> 144 mHz:  150w into a homebrew 12 element
>
> I modulate, therefore I am! ...73, and all that jazz, Dave...N9TTX Always
> remember: "It could be worse.....it could be raining." Marty Feldman from
> "Young Frankenstein"
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