On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Jim George N3BB wrote:
> 15 meters was quiet but the stations that were loud were LOUD. The champs
> over
> the next several hours were K6LA, N6RO, N2IC and WP2Z. Oh yes, also W5VX in
> (very) South Texas. It was interesting comparing Bill's (W5VX) signal with
> my
> buddies in Austin. K5TR (KE5C), K5NA, and K5YA all were 300 miles or so
> closer
> than W5VX and all three were 549 and sounded watery like back scatter. I
> didn't even call them as I had calibrated by then that the other station had
> to
> show at least some signal strength on the FT100's meter for me to be heard.
> N5DO out in West TX was loud as well, as Dave was far enough away. I
> operated
> from Virginia, Tennessee, and then cut through Northern GA as I took the
> southern route and wanted to operate from as many sections as possible. East
> of Knoxville I changed to I-75 and went south through Chattanooga and through
> a
> slice of Georgia and into Alabama, then through Birmingham and on into
> Mississippi. I QSYed to 20 meters for several hours, and ended up again on
> 40
> meters as I drove through Mississippi. Even with active stations in Alabama
> and N4OGW's activity in MS, several stations thanked me for a new mult in AL
> and MS. I stopped for the night in Jackson at about 02Z, so the SS still
> had
> a bit to run, but I was dead tired.
>
So are you the first Rover to participate in Sweepstakes? You GOTTA do
the same route for the January VHF SS! :-)
>
> Looking at the 3830 reports, I never heard a peep from Tree at W5WMU, or Tor
> at
> N4OGW.
I worked both. Tree seemed to be all over the place, and Tor was heard
several times here also.
73, Zack W9SZ
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