[SADXA] ARRL VHF Contest

[Wes (N7WS)]

Two and one-half hours before the end of this contest I chanced to check out 
six-meters.  I checked only because I've been plagued with line noise and wanted 
to see how six sounded.  Lo and behold, there were signals on the band.

So I joined in.  At the end of the contest I had worked 38 stations, 29 grids 
and 16 states.

Probably not too impressive until I mention that the antenna I used was my 40-80 
meter inverted vee wire dipole fed with 200 feet of RG8 that has a divot chewed 
out of it by a rat and a squirt of RTV in it to keep the elements out.

I worked everything I heard and called except for K1ZZ, who was heard calling CQ 
on CW while I was set up for SSB.  By the time I got changed over, he was gone.  
Since the band wasn't that long for me, I suspect some meteor scatter, although 
W7FSL in Tempe seemed to be working the FN grids pretty well at that time.

The minute the contest ended, the band went dead.  What a coincidence.

Wes  N7WS