ARRL June VHF Contest - 2022
Call: WB0TEV
Operator(s): WB0TEV
Station: WB0TEV
Class: Single Op-All Modes HP
QTH: NTX
Operating Time (hrs): 9:08
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 135 124
2:
222:
432:
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 135 124 Total Score = 16,740
Club: DFW Contest Group
Comments:
This was my first time to operate this contest in my 46 years as a ham. Did
nothing but 6m FT8. Don't have a 6m antenna up yet so I let the KPA1500 load up
my Mosley PRO-67B HF beam at 63 feet with anywhere from 600-1000 watts.
Not a serious effort, hardly ever called CQ, just clicked on callers from new
grids. Wandered in and out of the shack a lot over the course of the weekend.
Used WSJT-X mated with N1MM+. Sunday afternoon I looked over on 50.323 and saw
a bunch of EU DX. Up to now I had never worked (or barely heard) anything on 6m
from Europe. Dumped the WSJT-x for EW1 & N1MM+ and fired up my regular QSO
version of WSJT-X and starting calling Europeans. Picked up almost a dozen new
DXCC's on 6m. (Those won't be in my contest log). Did equivalent of VUCC in
one weekend, and hopefully managed to add a few new grids to the 200+ I already
had.
Gave me something to do while I finish recovering from a bout of COVID.
Fortunately between some combination of being vaxxed and boosted and it likely
being the less nasty Omicron variant, symptomatically it feels no different from
a bothersome cold with sore throat and some nasal congestion. Thankfully it is
resolving, although the first day (Wednesday), I had a fever of 101, not that
much different from the air temperature outisde the last couple of days here in
sunny North Texas.
I may have to do this again. (The VHF contest part, not the COVID!!)
To quote the song by Phish, "Down with Disease"!
73,
Victor WB0TEV in EM13
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