[SixClub] Marathon "Six Club Contest"

Sun, 8 Feb 2004 18:04:08 -0600

Jerry asked... < Any reports as to how the contest has gone?

Jerry the contest was fun; we worked 27 unique calls with a total of 59
contacts. I was disappointed only seeing a few new calls however there
were no doubt many I didn't hear or know about. It would be interesting
to know how many first time WSJT users got on during the contest.

One of my best contacts was Feb 7th at 0229 - 0249 UTC. The band was
open with strong E-Skip (single hop as far as I could tell) into
four-land mostly from my EL19 location. I set a sked with Bob (K1SIX) in
FN43 and completed with him on JT6M and also copied him perfectly on
JT65B! That distance was 1683 miles. Propagation mode E's but very weak.
His signal was -26db !!!  This contact was impossible except for WSJT.
We were on 50.305MHz and in fact a SSB station can be heard during my
receive period but it does not interfere with the decoding at all. If
anyone is interested we saved the wave-file and can email it.

Of course there were lots of fun contacts that one just sticks out. Four
contacts via E's, 10 tropo (weak signal) and the remainder all meteor
scatter.

Now to get the log in shape for submitting...

Tip
WA5UFH

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> Subject: Re: [SixClub] Marathon "Six Club Contest"
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> In a message dated 2/5/2004 9:06:50 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
> The Six Meter Marathon is still going on until 00:00 UTC Feb 9,2004.
If
> you haven't joined in it's not too late. The rules are at
> http://6mt.com/contest.htm .
> Any reports as to how the contest has gone? I have been working 12-14
> hours a
> day at work, this is a result of the very cold temps last week. Had
ice
> build
> up on antennas knocking stations off the air due to high SWR. Being a
> paging
> channel these operate with 100% duty cycle. Gotta keep the pager users
> happy.
> 
> Jerry a very tired W9FS
> Six Club director #66
> 
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