CQ Worldwide VHF Contest
Call: KO9A
Operator(s): KO9A
Station: KO9A
Class: SOSB/6 LP
QTH: IL
Operating Time (hrs): 20+
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 117 45
2:
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Total: 117 45 Total Score = 5,265
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
Not a whole lot to add to the discussion...my observations were similar to
everyone else's:
- Saturday was pretty terrible, although scatter to W1 was pretty good along
with very spotty Es openings. Went to bed with ~55 x 17...at the time this
seemed terrible but reading through the scores it likely wasn't half bad.
- Sunday continued with some really good scatter and a few hours of very
marginal Es. The opening to the west didn't help much here...a few grids were
added but no volume at all. It was a struggle to work the big guns. W9RM
peaked out around S3 for 5 minutes or so, N0KE needed to be worked cross-mode
and peaked at S1, and K0YW was the best peaking out around S5 for ~20 minutes.
All of those guys are typically bending the S-meter needle on a decent opening.
Our best Es was to W5 land but the opening wasn't nearly as good as a similar
opening during the ARRL June 'test.
Radio: TS-2000X (100W)
Ant: CLP5130-1 @ 30'
73 & tnx for the QSOs!
Jim KO9A (EN52xc)
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