I have to agree with Tim here. I worked a bunch of stations 2 hours
before the contest started, but conditions were spotty at best the
rest of the weekend.
I also seem to notice that there are other parts of the country that
seem to get good 6 meter openings far more often than here in CM97. I
wish I had a $ for every time I saw openings into CN87 or CN85, but
not into CM97. It's like there are some paths that open frequently
while others don't. I've noticed this for years.
On 6/14/06, Tim Coad <timcoad@excite.com> wrote:
>
>
> Actually once the contest started , six meters was pretty spotty at best on
> Saturday from CM87 and rather disappointing compared with the morning opening
> and other years.
>
> Tim - NU6S
>
>
>
> --- On Wed 06/14, curtis roseman < croseman@usc.edu > wrote:
> From: curtis roseman [mailto: croseman@usc.edu]
> To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com, vhf@w6yx.stanford.edu
> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:30:21 -0500
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] How Good was 6 Meters in the 2006 June Contest?
>
> As many have already noted, on this reflector and elsewhere, Saturday was
> truly a big day for six meters in the June contest. To obtain a preliminary
> measure of how good six meters was I have compared 2006 high claimed QSO and
> grid totals (that I have seen so far) with those from past years. Here is
> what I found: Up until now [in the post 1984 grid-square era] thirteen
> stations have worked at least 1000 QSOs on 6 meters, nine from Texas, and two
> each from New Mexico and Colorado. At least two were added this year: K9NS
> in Illinois (1282 Qs) and K9MU in Wisconsin (1108 Qs). 1000-plus QSO totals
> by year: 1996 (2); 1998 (6); 1999 (1); 2000 (2); 2003 (2). Ten stations
> had worked between 950 and 999 Qs in the past; at least two were added this
> year, K1TOL in Maine (989) and K5AM in New Mexico (954). Some pretty high
> grid totals were racked-up this year too, but only one reported so far in the
> top echelon: The 258 grids claimed by K9NS will tie for the eleventh all-tim
e
> high total. At least ten stations worked over 200 grids this year, from a
> variety of locations, including Maine, Delaware, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas,
> New Mexico and Colorado. I have the historical high QSO and grid totals in
> an Excel file that I would be happy to send to anybody who is interested.
> These data suggest that the overall biggest years on six (in the grid square
> era) were: 1987, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, and now 2006. (I also have
> records from the pre-grid-square era that would show some spectacular June
> contests on six before 1985.)This year I operated single op portable (QRP) in
> southwest Michigan, and almost got VUCC (98 grids) on six running ten watts
> to a 5-element beam 7 feet off the ground. Most of those grids were worked
> on Saturday. The openings were good for me because they were geographically
> widespread, allowing me to maximize the number of grids worked. [The name of
> the game in a multi-band QRP operation is to work as many grids as
> possible on 6; spend time getting QSOs on the higher bands where they count
> more.] I worked lots of relatively short skip, to grids such as EN93, EM58,
> and EN21 (consistent with the 2 meter Es that was going over my head).
> Also, at one time or another, the band was open wide areas in New England,
> the South, and the West. So I was able to steadily pick-off new grids, by
> searching and pouncing (along with some begging).Sunday was relatively quiet
> on six, although I did manage twelve new grids that day. The good news is
> that this allowed us to spend most of the time on the higher bands, which
> were nearly empty on Saturday because of the six-meter openings. Another fun
> contest.73, Curt Roseman
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