ARRL June VHF QSO Party
Call: K7BV
Operator(s): K7BV
Station: K7BV
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: CT
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 486 124
2:
222:
432:
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 486 124 Total Score = 60,264
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Plenty of thunderstorms in the East generated impressive - and score inhibiting
- lightening crashes to deal with on Saturday. In spite of that, it was a fun
contest with plenty of grid chasing excitement. Es to the South and 9s in the
opening two hours produced half of my contact total and 65% of my mult. After
that it was the typical VHF contest tropo grind with the except of a great
Caribbean opening Sunday late afternoon. No EU/AF heard but I did work 8P, 9Y,
FG, FM, HK, PY, TI, V2, V3, YV and ON5OF/MM in FK88.
CW (mostly above 125 I should point out) was used to work 14 grids not worked on
Phone - CW is indeed NOT dead. My only multihop to the West Coast - K6FV - came
on CW in the opening blast.
WSJT meteor scatter was used to bag 5 new grids - I will need to work harder
next year to expand upon the use of this terrific mult producer.
WSJT also proved to me that it is a veeeery useful tool to stretch out tropo
coverage. IF we could just get more operators to include JT44 and/of JT6M in
their game plan. I predict that we all could rather dramatically increase our
tropo grid counts if we would devote more time to these digital modes in the
late-night and early morning hours. We need much much more CQing with these
modes up around the national calling frequency (50.270).
I am going to work on a plan to get the VHF guys much more interested in digital
mode use in the "slow hours" in future contests.
73
Dennis BV
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