[TVARC] OK RTTY DX ND4G SOAB HP was Re[2]: SERIOUSLY

[Rich Erlichman]

It is entirely possible that there was a solar flare or something like a 
fast solar wind. There was something mentioned on Tamitha Skov's last 
video (a few days ago) regarding a coronal hole that was about to send 
some wind our way. It could very likely have been a blackout for a 
period of time.
That said, I want to thank Dennis for essentially quiting early, and 
sending his Email earlier this evening. Somehow I totally screwed up 
thinking the contest was not starting until 7PM THIS evening. Boy, was I 
surprised when I saw his Email.
Here are my numbers from the contest, starting 22-1/2 hours late. At 
least for the last hour and a half, it sounded like the bands were 
popping. I worked 6 OK stations, and I had a nice "Run" logging 19 Qs in 
the last 19 minutes.

Pete, I even got the LOGTHENPOP macro in there.

73,

Rich, ND4G



                     OK DX RTTY Contest - 2022

Call: ND4G
Operator(s): ND4G
Station: ND4G

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: NFL
Operating Time (hrs): 1.5

Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Pts  Countries  OK Stns
-------------------------------------
    80:   0
    40:  36   141       9        6
    20:   1     1       1        0
    15:   0
    10:   0
-------------------------------------
Total:  37   142      10        6  Total Score = 2,272

Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club

Comments:
FLEX-6600M -> ELECRAFT KPA500 -> MFJ-998RT Remote Tuner -> 20' Stealth 
vertical flagpole

Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/

------ Original Message ------
>From "William De Miranda" <pim.rdm34 at gmail.com>
To w3us at casa-aloha.net
Cc "Rich Erlichman" <rich.erlichman at gmail.com>; "TVARC" 
<tvarc at mailman.qth.net>; "Dennis McKinney" <n0smx2 at gmail.com>
Date 12/17/2022 6:41:43 PM
Subject Re: [TVARC] SERIOUSLY

>Well, maybe not. I got on 20M SSB phone around 4:30 pm today, and allI 
>heard were about 3 stations, and they didn’t even move my S meter. I 
>thought my antenna was broken, or disconnected, but I was able to 
>transmit fine.
>Pim
>De K4PIM
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>>On Dec 17, 2022, at 6:20 PM, w3us at casa-aloha.net wrote:
>>
>>Must have been a glitch somewhere.  I did a double-take earlier today 
>>when I saw SF=0 from two sources.
>>
>>Rusty - W3US
>>
>>>On Dec 17, 2022, at 17:49, Rich Erlichman <rich.erlichman at gmail.com> 
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>Dennis,
>>>I am not sure where you are getting that from.
>>>Here is from our website: https://www.k4vrc.com/hf-propagation.html
>>><qhe0eh22.png>
>>>And from QRZ.com <https://www.qrz.com/> (in agreement:
>>><ekyi4nnk.png>
>>>
>>>73,
>>>Rich, ND4G
>>>
>>>------ Original Message ------
>>>From "Dennis McKinney" <n0smx2 at gmail.com>
>>>To "villages reflector" <tvarc at mailman.qth.net>
>>>Date 12/17/2022 3:26:51 PM
>>>Subject [TVARC] SERIOUSLY
>>>
>>>>The solar numbers look a little, how should I put it, SICK....
>>>>
>>>>The OK DX RTTY contest is a test for sure... 🤪🤪
>>>>
>>>>Dennis N0SMX
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