I was able to get on for a couple hours Saturday morning, and 6M was hopping for much of that time. I did listen briefly later in the afternoon before the thunderstorms rolled in, but didn't hear anything then, so I guess the opening didn't last.
I was monitoring 144.200 on the bandscope as well, but only had a couple contacts there.
I kept getting requests for repeats on my grid...turns out my winkeyer clone was dropping the first element on every transmission. W0VX emailed me to let me know. I found and corrected the issue - had to increase the 'Lead Time' parameter in the Winkeyer setting on N1MM+. Of course, it does NOT affect the sidetone on the K3, so everything sounded fine to me. My paddle is plugged in to the keyer, so even the fills I tries to send with the paddle dropped the first element. So my grid came out as N34 instead of EN34. I suspect I missed that setting when I replaced the shack PC recently.
It was SO GOOD to make some SSB and CW QSOs on 6M again ! I hope the contest organizers keep the analog only session on the calendar.
Band Mode QSOs Pts Grd Pt/Q
50 CW 18 18 6 1.0
50 USB 43 43 26 1.0
144 USB 2 4 1 2.0
Total Both 63 65 33 1.0
Score : 2,145
73 de W0ZF