Like they say LOCATION-LOCATION-LOCATION.
If you want to place in the Top 10 nation-wide in a VHF contest, you have to
live in the NorthEast. Although this was a decent contest and I hit my
all-time highest score ever in 45 years of VHF contesting, I'm sure by the
rummers I've heard, the multi-band guys in New England cleaned up again.
Out here in the boonies of south-central Virginia working nearly 30 QSOs on
222 & 432 is monumental. However, it doesn't help much against stations
that are located 100 to 200 miles from 3 to 4 times as many on those same
bands. Not to mention all the close-in 1296 and up stations in those
over-populated home-owner association run neighborhoods of the NE. Even
with my first ever 6-digit score, it would have been much better had there
been any enhanced propagation on the 2m and up bands. Sporadic E
propagation on 6 meters was great most of the contest, with a European
opening in the beginning hours.
Band QSO Grid
50M 265 156
144M 102 36
222M 28 17
432M 28 18
1.2G 3 3
Total 426 230
Score: 112,240
de K3SK
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