[SADXA] ARRL VHF Contest

[Jerry]

Sounds like six to me.

We were on at the same time and the band was pretty good going in just 
about all directions for the last few hours of the contest. Your antenna 
was not that unusual for that band. Its amazing what works when the band 
is open. Considering the length of your feed line you didn't have much 
left to feed to the antenna either. I suspect the band really didn't go 
dead just everyone went to bed. We worked K1ZZ but right after that he 
dropped down quite rapidly.

So bottom line is you did well. Now to get a better antenna up.:-)

On 6/14/2015 11:18 PM, Wes (N7WS) wrote:
> 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
>
>
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