June VHF QSO Party - K8MR - single op - OH - EN91
50 232 109 TR-6 5L @ 80'
144 122 30 TS-830S TV-502S 70 W 13B2 @75'
222 29 20 DEM 222/28 RF Concepts 120W 16L @ 73'
432 48 21 DEM 432/28 16L @ 67'
Total 431 180 91,440
My first time on 222; I bought the DEM kit at Dayton, and the
antenna went up at 11 am Saturday. Several stations were passing
to 222.160 or 170; why so high, out of the weak signal subband?
Here in N.E. Ohio 222.16 is used for PacketCluster linking, so I
had to suggest a frequency lower in the band.
Tropo was poor; in my first half hour Sunday morning I made only
3 QSOs. Six was obviously a different story, although northeast
Ohio is a frustating location on six, too far from the east coast
for tropo, not far enough for Es. VE9AA and VY2/W3EP were the
only Es QSOs in that direction.
Jim Stahl K8MR k8mr@barf80.nshore.org
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Jim Stahl
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